I don’t like to admit it, but I am a Coca-Cola drinker. Yes, I know it is not exactly healthy but in moderation, drinking Coca-Cola is something I can’t live without. Not too long ago, my girlfriend and I purchased two bottles of Coke from an Electronics store when both of us were disgusted by the taste. I could not believe it! The taste of the Coke, in combination with it not being cold enough was just bitter and gross. Since I like Coke so much, I decided to let Coke know about their little mishap. I never had any intention of getting a free coke, I just wanted to let them know that they may have had a bad batch and I did it via email from their web site.

Today, in the mail I receive a letter from Coke apologizing for the the incident. Enclosed was two coupons for 2, 2 Liter bottles of any Coca-Cola product. I originally bought 2, 20 oz. bottles so this is a little nice bonus. You can click on the image to view a bigger picture of the letter.

I have to say, hearing Hitachi and Toshiba announce a 500GB laptop hard drive is amazing and just impressive but they can’t be used in today’s laptops. Hitachi’s and Toshiba’s just add and additional platter which makes the drive thicker so it won’t fit in most of today’s traditional laptops by adding about 3mm. I don’t think this is the wave of the future but this could be a step to smaller desktop computers and for specialized smaller computer. I could see HP putting this in their super small desktop business and home computer or servers. Not entirely useful but seriously amazing to to see how far we have come. We are probably a year away from seeing standardized 500GB drives in most laptops.