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iPhonealley.com is a site I regularly visit. They report news and also have lots of great reviews on some of the iPhone apps. Yesterday I received my replacement wall charger from the Apple recall. I decided to submit the news that I got mine since Apple originally said they should be available on Friday. I just checked and they posted about the news on their site and even mentioned my name. You can view the news at http://www.iphonealley.com/news/apple-ships-wall-charger-replacements

The last mail-away figure offered from the movie The Empire Strikes Back was again another Bounty Hunter. The figure was 4-LOM and was another one that had only a minute of screen time in the movie. The interesting thing about this one is Kenner actually got the name wrong. The name of the figure should be Zuckuss. They names Zuckuss a dark silver bounty hunter, so they actually had the names switched. They never corrected this problem. It wasn’t until the 90’s Star Wars line came out that the names were fixed. Because of that I still call this figure and character 4-LOM. This figure required 5 proofs of purchase and expired August 31st, 1982. Here is how it appeared on the back of the figure cards

Here is mine with the mailer-box and catalog. This was the first mail-away figure not to include a flyer describing the character in the movies.

Finally the T.V. commercial advertising the offer

Last Wednesday I ordered 4 gigs of ram for my laptop. I’ve been using Newegg for over 5 years and have never has an issue. Back when I first started using Newegg they only used Fedex for shipping. When I get something shipped from their warehouse in California it would only take roughly 3 days to get to Utah. About a year or so ago they started using UPS for their low end shipping. Again this would take about the same time, so when I ordered the memory last Wednesday I figured it would be here probably Monday this week. On Thursday I got my tracking info and I saw they shipped DHL. I have never had a good experience with DHL, but figured well it did ship from their California warehouse, so it should still be about the same time. I followed the tracking and over the weekend for some reason they shipped it to Phoenix Arizona and then it said tendered to USPS. I figured still no big deal since again stuff from Arizona usually only takes a few days to get here, so I thought Wednesday at the latest it would be here and that was still within a week from ordering. Anyway, Wednesday passed and still no ram. I decided to google about this and found out that the eggsaver shipped stuff is all going this way and this issue has happened to a lot of people. Some of them even took over 2 weeks to get to their destination.

Today (Saturday) it finally arrived, so it took about a week and a half for me to get a package from California. I was also suprised to see that the memory was just shipped in a large padded envelope. I have always received packages in a box from Newegg. Luckily the ram was fine and I am using it right now as I type this. I still stand by Newegg they always have great prices and ship out fast. I just know from now on I’ll never use Eggsaver shipping again if I want my order here in a decent time frame.

2009 is the Year for Dracula: The Un-Dead-
ShockTillYouDrop.com.

Looks like an official sequel is on the way to the original Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Hopefully it will be done correctly. It also has backing from the Stoker family. Here are some excerpts from the article on shocktillyoudrop.com

“Bram Stoker’s great-grandnephew and blood descendant, Dacre Stoker, and award-winning Dracula documentarian and historian Ian Holt have sold North American-English publishing rights of the Stoker-family-authorized sequel to Bram’s classic novel “Dracula” to an alliance of Dutton U.S. (Brian Tart), Harper U.K. (Jane Johnson) and Penguin-Canada (Laura Shin).

The novel will appear in October 2009.

“The Un-Dead” is the first Dracula story to enjoy the full support of the Stoker clan since the original 1931 movie starring Bela Lugosi. Lugosi’s appearance in Hamilton Deane’s and John Balderston’s stage production of the story on Broadway in New York, fifteen years after Bram Stoker’s death in 1927, sparked the original novel’s bestselling popularity. It has never been out of print since.”