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	<title>The Wacky World of Chris Knight &#187; Support This!</title>
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	<description>Life is an adventure.  A good life is worth selling the movie rights. These are my story notes.</description>
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		<title>The sounds of Apple Tech Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These audio files came to me by way of an ex-Apple employee who had worked tech support. This person did not personally take any of these calls, but I trusted the source enough to know they were real. I know &#8230; <a href="http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2006/05/20/the-sounds-of-apple-tech-support/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gates runs Apple, in Texas&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 07:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is full of people who have an overblown sense of self importance. Usually such people think that everyone else is beneath them. So, it seems odd that a guy who thinks he can threaten Apple makes those threats &#8230; <a href="http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2006/05/20/bill-gates-runs-apple-in-texas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The son of god uses a Performa&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 07:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how to describe this guy, other than he&#8217;s nuts. Sure, we all tell tech support some crazy things to get help; but sane people keep it confined to the likes of &#8220;We are planning on purchasing 500 &#8230; <a href="http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2006/05/20/the-son-of-god-uses-a-performa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Disks are Unimportant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 07:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you call tech support, never, ever, admit that you have software on your machine for which you don&#8217;t have the install media. The tech support agent sounds a little suprised that this guy is admitting this. Pretending to be &#8230; <a href="http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2006/05/20/disks-are-unimportant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Be nice to the idiot&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 07:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I didn&#8217;t know for a fact that this was recorded years ago I would think that I was listening in to Jerry Taylor from Tuttle Oklahoma as he called CentOS about his website&#8230; This recording just goes to prove &#8230; <a href="http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2006/05/20/be-nice-to-the-idiot/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Use the paper clip that comes with MS Word&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 07:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Language and cultural barriers can be a painful obsticle when attempting to get technical support. Now that almost every major computer and networking company has outsourced some part of their tech support we encounter it all the time. This recording &#8230; <a href="http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2006/05/20/use-the-paper-clip-that-comes-with-ms-word/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting beneath the covers of MacOS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 07:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This sounds so much like an obscene phone call that it tends to creep me out.]]></description>
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		<title>Going&#8230; Going&#8230; Gone!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2006/05/20/going-going-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 07:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for calling Apple Tech Support. We are currently unable to help you as you have been unable to provide the required proof of a mind. When you find your mind, please call us back&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>I would have put him on hold&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 07:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and then I would have gone home, or perhaps on vacation.]]></description>
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		<title>Hold music appreciation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 07:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I get the impression that hold music is really a gauntlet designed to weed out those who truly need tech support from those that just want someone to talk to. Apparently I&#8217;m not the only one.]]></description>
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