[19:00] morning [19:00] morning [19:24] morning [20:20] morning [20:20] lovely wind last night (am not talking about me) [20:30] quite breezing this morning as well [20:31] watching recycle bins race themselves down the road [20:31] morning [20:31] apparently it's likely to get stronger over the next couple of hours, then die off in the afternoon [20:42] morning [22:58] * mwhudson appears to have accidentally dialed up quite a nice looking system on lenovo.com [23:02] careless [23:06] yeah [23:12] * ojwb is expecting a new laptop to arrive today [23:12] finding it hard to focus on doing stuff while trying to listen for a courier [23:12] what with the wind, I fear I'll not hear them [23:13] I totally failed to hear the last delivery, though I wasn't expecting that one [23:13] it's also hard to hear couriers when they don't actually make an honest attempt to deliver the package :/ [23:13] ojwb: what laptop have you got? [23:15] 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] if you hear the letter box, you'd have heard them knock... [23:17] new laptop is an hp dv7-5003tx [23:20] is that one of the ones that ascent will do without windows? [23:21] 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] 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] looks like nice specs [23:23] bit big for me though [23:23] yeah, it's pretty good [23:23] it's to be my main machine, so I really wanted a decent size screen [23:23] current laptop is the same size and res [23:24] and the new one is a few 100g lighter at least [23:24] I have a netbook for when I want portable [23:24] you can get these things called monitors you know :-) [23:25] and things called "desktops" [23:25] yeah, i've heard of them [23:26] 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] 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] 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] ahh [23:27] ah heh, that *is* a good deal :_) [23:28] yeah