I’ve made a little error in judgement.

Ya see, I’ve got a brand new shiny-shiny and it’s, well, extremely shiny. It’s a laptop. The same one I tried buying last year only newer, better specs, direct from Dell and shinier. But… there’s a little problem. A tiny problem. A problemito if you will. And that’s quite aside from the fact that it comes with Internet Explorer 6 installed as default (with Windows XP Pro SP2 - Vista be damned!)

The miniscule issue I have - and I confess that I’m entirely to blame for my propensity for magpie-like attraction to the shinies, is that the laptop, with its 2.6Ghz Dual Core CPU, 4Gb RAM, 400Gb HDD, Dual 256Mb SLI Geforce 8700M GT Graphics adaptor, remote controlled media player, 17″ widescreen and backlit keyboard, is too big to fit in my motorcycle panniers. Also the power supply is the size of a brick. Well, half a brick but seriously, it’s brick sized. Red brick not breezeblock because that would be silly. It’s HUGE (and that’s before you add in usual male exaggeration). I suppose it’s not actually a surprise when you consider it’s a desktop replacement rather than a tiny portable. Ah well - it’s a problem I can deal with.

Did I mention how shiny it was?

(P.S. When I get my broadband connected in the flat next week, there will be no stopping my plans for world domination. You have been forewarned. And forewarned, as they say, is given enough notice to make the appropriate plans.)