No, was the answer.
It's against their policy, so they've had to ask head office.

Morons.

Plus their warranty doe3s not include physical dmage to lcd, but I've had 2 othger vaio's in the last 6 years, both of which have had more stress placed on them this the new one, and they managed to last longer than 6 months...

time to buy a mac, perhaps.....

So there I was sitting there watching the best of the Tube, and lo and behold Swansway pops on air.....

Result :)

PS Those fireworks in London were gobsmacking......

Happy New Year all....

God I love this place ;-p

now , which one to start with.....

:)

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Bloody useful that (and no, they don't have the depparnen thingy)

A fine way to find out you've been terminated. (I'd been asking them for weeks and weeks, and not a peep out of them)
F**king Amateurs.

and breath........

Currently I seem to be entertaining someone in Warsaw ! :)

I missed the first bit of SO, but managed to DVDR the making of on BBC4 and the first episode of The Planets, 1 of 8

Some of the BBC Live events look interesting, might be worth a road trip...

:(

Bush apology

I voted

Time to move to somewhere more sensible, like Outer Mongolia :)

along with

Middle East Travel Guide

15 ukp a ticket
0870 534 4444

Etienne De Crecy - Super Discount 2

Something I didn't think I'd ever say about it. It does seem , however, to lose all the playlists/skip and stutter/lose battery charge within a day with increasing frequency, and Itunes sucks bigtime for anything other than 5.1 surround sound playback and a nice visualiser. I'm sick of having to rebuild Itunes everytime the .db file goesd doolally (and it does so often and no I don't have a virus or a duff disk)

So out with the fat Apple and in with sexy , tiny, shiny new 1GB solid state player I'm using for commuting.(USB2 so it's easy to add and remove stuff)

Think of the first cellphones vs. the ones you can get these days and you'll be on the right track.

In case you wonder what the hell I'm ranting about then you'll just have to wait and see how tiny and dead sexy the new player is :)

Normally I'd post a link to the device, but it appears that no-one on the net sells it yet(not even the manufacturer:).

Oh how readily we moan and begrumble what yesterday seemed brilliant, but today seems old hat.....expensive this progress lark ;-p

See here for more details.

Then you need a Honda

coming to an ipod near me soon :)

NAPSTER
No longer A Possible Solution To Escape Record-buying

TWAIN
Technology Without Any Important Name

PCMCIA
People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

ISDN
It Still Does Nothing

APPLE
Arrogance Produces Profit Losing Entity

SCSI
System Can't See It

DOS
Defective Operating System

BASIC
Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control

IBM
I Blame Microsoft (or conversely "I Build Macs")

DEC
Do Expect Cuts

CD-ROM
Consumer Device-Rendered Obsolete in Months

OS/2
Obsolete Soon Too

WWW
World Wide Wait

MACINTOSH
Most Applications Crash, If Not, The Operating System Hangs

PENTIUM
Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics

COBOL
Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language

AMIGA
A Merely Insignificant Gamers Addiction

LISP
Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parenthesis

MIPS
Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

WINDOWS
Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

MICROSOFT
Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

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