Swedish Slaptop is a very happy Pismo indeed. She now has

• a new power cable
• 640 MB of RAM
• a ZIP drive. This will take 100MB and 250MB disks. A wee tug on a lever pushes out the current expansion bay module (e.g. the DVD/CD drive) by a few millimetres. You then pull it out the rest of the way and slot in the module you now want to use. This can be done while the Pismo is running. Hot-swap a-go-go!

You scored as Ron Weasley. You often feel like second best and as a result don’t have an awful lot of self confidence, but a truer more capable friend would be hard to find. Ron Weasley 80% Hermione Granger 70% Ginny Weasley 70% Severus Snape 50% Remus Lupin 50% Draco Malfoy 50% Harry Potter 45% Sirius Black 45% Albus Dumbledore 30% Lord Voldemort 20%

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Still, I’d far sooner be RW than HP, GW, AD. I’d be considering shooting myself if I was considered anything like HP except having equal numbers of arms, etc

It’s 99% official. The 802.11g card doesn’t work with OS9. So when I take my Pismo to bed my feet will continue to be strangled by the ethernet cable. Don’t even ask where the power cable ends up.

Edit Since taking this test, I’ve found that all of my ‘wrong’ answers were where I made a definite choice between two options where either (in the test’s author’s opinion) would have been acceptable. So I’m slightly bouyed by the thought that whatever I chose to write would have used correct grammar or vocabulary. However, this is no cure for my usual banality.

My parents have gone to visit friends in Stuttgart for a week. They’ve arrived safely. Their luggage hasn’t. Dad says it’s a fairly minor inconvenience – the luggage should arrive later today and mum took her diabetes kit as hand luggage. Still, it meant my parents could travel unemcumbered to their friends’ house and they might get some free new clothes

My dealer has been busted!

Ok, the Pismo hasn’t arrived yet, so I’m a bit stuck [for testing your DVD drive before dispatching it].
I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that all 4 drives I have are faulty.

I’ve finally succumbed to Apple’ iTunes Music Store. My purchases were:

• The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
• Radio K.A.O.S.
• Amused to death

My dealer has problems:

I think my reference machine has become flaky as it is erroring every CD and DVD drive I have.

I prefer to test every item before shipping but I’m unable to test the DVD drive.

I have another on the way in a couple of days and will look at repairing this one.

So I can either ship you all the parts with the DVD drive untested, or hold on for a few days until I can test it.

Sympathy for him.

Not too big a problem for since I’m away at a training course tomorrow and will probably be too knackered to do any surgery over the weekend. Perhaps I’ll learn patience!

I wish I had the time to read through all of this!

OK, while not making up article titles based on Pink Floyd material and drooling over my Pismo, I do other things:

1. work (I’m Production Manager at a Scottish educational publishing house)
2. maintain Digital Evidence, my online photo album
3. try to promote Fairtrade
4. and have just been elected Treasurer of the local Community Council.

I think that’s as near as I’m ever going to get to having a life!