[19:00] <ibeardslee> morning
[19:00] <ajmitch> morning
[19:24] <thumper> morning
[20:20] <chilts> morning
[20:20] <chilts> lovely wind last night (am not talking about me)
[20:30] <ibeardslee> quite breezing this morning as well
[20:31] <ibeardslee> watching recycle bins race themselves down the road
[20:31] <ojwb> morning
[20:31] <ojwb> apparently it's likely to get stronger over the next couple of hours, then die off in the afternoon
[20:42] <mwhudson> morning
[22:58]  * mwhudson appears to have accidentally dialed up quite a nice looking system on lenovo.com
[23:02] <ojwb> careless
[23:06] <mwhudson> yeah
[23:12]  * ojwb is expecting a new laptop to arrive today
[23:12] <ojwb> finding it hard to focus on doing stuff while trying to listen for a courier
[23:12] <ojwb> what with the wind, I fear I'll not hear them
[23:13] <ojwb> I totally failed to hear the last delivery, though I wasn't expecting that one
[23:13] <mwhudson> it's also hard to hear couriers when they don't actually make an honest attempt to deliver the package :/
[23:13] <mwhudson> ojwb: what laptop have you got?
[23:15] <ojwb> we had that a lot in the uk - card through the door from the postman when I was in and I'm pretty much certain they'd just not bothered to bring the package
[23:16] <ojwb> if you hear the letter box, you'd have heard them knock...
[23:17] <ojwb> new laptop is an hp dv7-5003tx
[23:20] <mwhudson> is that one of the ones that ascent will do without windows?
[23:21] <ojwb> not sure - i bought it from ascent, but the backlight has died in my old laptop, so waiting a couple of weeks wasn't really an option
[23:22] <hads> Lots of couriers are silly. I had words to NZ Couriers after catching them on camera leaving cards in the mailbox and not knocking on the door.
[23:23] <mwhudson> looks like nice specs
[23:23] <mwhudson> bit big for me though
[23:23] <ojwb> yeah, it's pretty good
[23:23] <ojwb> it's to be my main machine, so I really wanted a decent size screen
[23:23] <ojwb> current laptop is the same size and res
[23:24] <ojwb> and the new one is a few 100g lighter at least
[23:24] <ojwb> I have a netbook for when I want portable
[23:24] <mwhudson> you can get these things called monitors you know :-)
[23:25] <ojwb> and things called "desktops"
[23:25] <mwhudson> yeah, i've heard of them
[23:26] <ojwb> that was my plan actually - i just bought the current laptop before moving out here, and have been meaning to get a desktop as it's getting a bit old
[23:26] <mwhudson> given i have to have a laptop though, and i travel a fair bit, it's always seemed a better deal to get a tricked out laptop than spread the money across a desktop and a laptop
[23:27] <ojwb> but the guys I'm currently working for heard my laptop screen was dead and offered to buy me a replacement so it seemed rude to refuse!
[23:27] <ibeardslee> ahh
[23:27] <mwhudson> ah heh, that *is* a good deal :_)
[23:28] <ojwb> yeah