Extraordinary week just gone for technical problems.

Tuesday - laptop stops working - ie there’s a light on but nobody in. No surprise there really as it’s around five years old and has regularly been bashed into lampposts while in rucksack, or thrown onto floor of pub (not in aggressive way - it’s just sometimes you throw rucksacks down); it’s been to Spain, France, Denmark, Germany, Sweden. I think we once took it on a bike to Europe.

Wednesday - broadband connection disappears. BT - bless ‘em, take an age to contact, with growing confusion as to where I might be in an ever more byzantian telephone system ‘press 1 for pestulence, 2 for famine…’ There help as usual is - take all the plugs out and plug them back in again ‘ah, you don’t have a BT router, sorry’…click whirr as they disappear.

Wednesday - order new ASUS notepad. Promised it will be delivered next day.

Thursday - ASUS EEE900 delivered. Not the 901. It’s the wrong one. Send it back.

Thursday - spare computer starts to cut out at random, with no notice.

Saturday - I attend ‘OpenTech’ - one of the few people taking notes with a pencil and paper

In conclusion I would like to say a very big thank you to the local computer shop - they can be contacted at info@600022.com or 01434 600022 and have been extremely helpful in sorting all this out. If you’re in the north east and need a computer problem fixing - get in touch with them.