A while after Jen got her job at the company she's with now, her laptop upped and died on her and so they gave her a new one without obtaining the old one. Since then just about everyone at the company has been fired or left under a cloud for newer, greener pastures. Which means we think we don't have to return the laptop which means I'll have it to play with which is what I have spent the last couple of days doing.

In my trouble-shooting of the many problems the device has I found this pearl of wisdom from the microsoft website:

When you install Windows XP, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:

• When you restart your computer, you may be prompted to use the Last Known Good configuration. When you do so, your computer may stop responding (hang) during the restart, and each time you restart thereafter.
  
• You may be prompted to run ScanDisk. When you do so, your computer may stop responding (hang). If you do not run ScanDisk, your computer may start correctly. However you are prompted to run ScanDisk every time you start your computer, and if you do so, your computer may stop responding (hang).
  
• When you restart your computer, your computer may stop responding (hang).
  If you try to restart your computer in Safe mode, your computer may stop responding (hang) when Windows XP tries to load the Agp440.sys service.
  

So I think I'm screwed either way, thanks for the help Bill.

Nothing's happened (especially where computers are concerned), except Easter, which I find very amusing this year.

The irony of celebrating the martyring of an dissident, propgandist and leading thinker on peace in the Middle East while an ultra-conservative "coalition" castigate and patronise those who choose peace over war and seek to have their leaders take responsibility for their arrogant actions is not lost on me.

I read something picked up from the New York Times commenting on a satirical tv show which took this from the Washington Post. So it's gospel truth, right. The coalition of the willing - how do you get into the club? Well, it seems you have to offer something to the war effort...arms, troops, intelligence, spies, archive material or, in the case of Morocco, two-thousand suicide monkeys.

No kidding, Morocco's contribution to the war was two-thousand monkeys which were intended to set off land-mines. And the appalling thing is that Washington and London took them up on the offer. But I don't suppose we'll hear much about that.

Okay, who's up for 24 hour coverage of Operation Chimpan-Freedom?