Lost

It's the holiday season so I've ended up in Ohio for a while and without my trusty laptop. I originally bought my Dell i9300 back in September 2005 for the whole purpose of designing websites whilst I travel; back then I spent 6 weeks in Connecticut and had everything I needed to continue my profession whilst away from home.

Now here we are a couple of years later and my trusty Dell i9300 is kaput. Well, not totally, but here's a few reasons why it was not a great machine:

Firstly, it was one of those laptops with a faulty battery. Even though I had two batteries and one was OK I kept both. Only problem is that these were the batteries of the kind that caught fire at a conference in Japan!

Secondly the laptop is just too damn hot to sit on your lap anyway. Even with the safe battery I recorded temperatures of over 100 degrees near the nether regions.

Third. BIG. The i9300 with 17" WXGA screen is a beast and a heavy one at that.

Fourthly and most importantly - LCD Inverter... No, not the soundsystem, but the little board at the foot of the screen that makes it work. i.e. my LCD inverter is totally buggered and I have no 17" WXGA wide screen. Instead I have been recently plugging in to a flatscreen 15" LCD but the bulk has been too muh to be portable...

So there you have it; I have no laptop with me and hence I am lost. No fireworks, no Dreamweaver, no Filezilla, no source files. I'm blogging from my fiancee's Macbook thingy so I can do any writing I like in blogger or wordpress but nothing more than that. Damn, I really need to edit the background image of this site but I'll have to wait until I get back to Blighty...

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