I sometimes like simple problems. Except when they require me to drive 40 minutes each way to fix a dumb problem. Thankfully today I also needed to make a small hardware mod, which meant my trip was not totally wasted. Otherwise I am sure that there are punishments for a client who does not check that a plugpack is fully pushed into the wall socket. Then again, I guess my bill will be punishment enough 🙂

Also whilst I was out I picked up another 250 GByte HDD. This will allow me to quickly (yeah, sure) rebuild this PC so that it runs at a decent speed. So right now I am formatting the HDD… and this is taking ages. As soon as it is formatted I need to make a few copies of relevant data onto the HDD, and then do a big reformat on this PC. Normally I would have had another computer to play with whilst the rebuild is on, but I have needed to lend that to a friend of mine as his laptop has died… So I will not be as productive for parts of today…