A couple of months ago I decided to purchase a NEC MultiSync PA322UHD-2 monitor from B&H in the US. The monitor ticked all the right boxes. But when the unit arrived I was greeted with a defect in the panel. There was a dark spot appearing in front of the RGB sub pixels that was quite annoying. The spot was definitely behind the glass layer, but it was not a pixel defect as the area moved relative with your viewpoint.

I reached out to NEC technical support and after sending through a photo of the issue and my invoice, they RMA-ed the unit. Nothing out of the ordinary so far. But the journey was far from over.

The replacement unit was actually worse. It too had the same defect, but in a different location on the panel. It also had additional spots. So back it went and another unit was sent. Same thing - if you were keeping count, this is now unit number 3.

In a first for me, a fashion designer named Bożena Karska asked me a while ago permission to use one of my peacock feather photos as inspiration for a dress she is designing. I said yes to her request, and couple of months later she emailed me with the result - I am impressed (though that model can do with some love)!

Update Clearly not just me...

This is just retarded:

If I were a French student and I were 10 years old, I think it would be more important for me to learn coding than English. I'm not telling people not to learn English in some form — but I think you understand what I am saying is that this is a language that you can [use to] express yourself to 7 billion people in the world, - Cook tells Konbini.

It is equivalent in me standing up and advocating to the leaders of this world that engineering should be a mandatory subject in school as engineers speak to 7 billion people in the world, and everyone should be engineers.