BA T5 chaos: Silicon.com readers’ comments!
By Ben Robinson on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 7:48 AM PST In Hardware, Ideas and rants, The Digital Life
I am sure you are all familiar now with the debacle that was the launch of BA Terminal 5 at Heathrow – essentially over 20,000 bags were/are “lost” (temporarily or otherwise) during the ensuing chaos, after the terminal opened – and a LOT of passengers clearly were/are not very happy about it!
Silicon.com has aggregated a number of it’s readers’ comments in to one place, and being as it’s a tech site, some are IT/Mobile-related in one way or another – you can read the full set here).
Of course, from a “Mobile” perspective, the are numerous stories about peoples’ “Tech” or “Gadgets” going missing – one of the most high profile though, is that of DJ Calvin Harris. He has been working on new album for 7 months apparently, of which all his media was on a Laptop that has gone for a unexpected “luggage sabbatical” – his comment on the situation was as follows:
“We went over to Miami last Thursday to play some gigs, and the nice people/robots at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 lost all our bags, including my hard drive, with all my f****** songs on.
“I have been walking in circles for a couple of days, and I will continue to do so until I meet the man/robot responsible and set him/it on fire. I shall overcome! Once he’s on fire.”
Somewhat harsh you could say, but what a piercing turn of phrase – clearly the dude ain’t happy!
[Via: Silicon.com / Quote: DigitalSpy.co.uk]
Instead of whining like a b1tch and threatening personal violence, maybe the DJ should have considered taking a backup of his precious data?
What happened to his laptop is unfortunate but could have happened to anyone anywhere – the situation he finds himself in now is entirely that of his own making.
I can understand his pain but I suppose it is true that the fault lays with him for not making back-ups of his important documents. Its so easy to get back-up nowadays anyway. Rather silly to not.