After the farce of the Shuttle box – which never worked, and cost me far too much with fuck-all effect – I finally gave up a while back, having concluded (with the help of friends) that it was epically fucked. I’ve since written to Shuttle, and heard fuck all, and written to Micro-Direct (who I bought it from) who have responded with “Not our problem.”

Anyway, on Tuesday I ordered a new PC from Dell, of all places. Not a world-shaking bit of kit, but not bad either – 3.0Ghz dual core processor, 2Gb RAM, blah, blah, blah – and of course I can then also shove in the RAM I got for the shuttle box, plus the DVD writer, and up the score with it even more.

So I ordered it on Tuesday. And it arrived today.

Not bad service at all – of course, we still have to check it’s all a) there, and b) working. But that’s the work for tonight, and then migrating stuff over the weekend. Oh goody…

Gah, why is it that on the one occasion you really need a certain website in order to check the availability of trains before organising an interview, the fucking thing’s down, and you can’t access it at all?

Bastards.

Still, yes, I have an interview. In Cambridge. On Tuesday. Eek.