Oh yeah, another point of irritation: the Airport card in the MiniMac turned up its feet and died on Sunday.

On calling the supplier I was informed that the mac was still in warranty — good — and that there was a 7 day wait before the service dept could get to look at it — bad.

Means I’ve got do to Yet Another Fucking User Transfer onto the laptop. Thankfully I’ve got the big screen now and so can plug it into the laptop…

The bonus here is that I can find out if it’s the screen or the logic-board that’s busted on the laptop, which has left me with an odd pink vertical line about two thirds to the right of the screen.

This line will apparently cost me a fortnight’s pay to get fixed, which apparently is pointless as it’s the same cost as the mid-level MacBook.

So, I’m keeping the data backed-up and will run it into the ground… figuratively-speaking that is… until it finally turns up its toes and dies and I can justify a replacement.

I saw one of the OLPC machines riding home last week and thought they were pretty neat, especially since I only use a laptop for email and pushing out new stories (albeit infrequently these days) and a big honking great mac, while pretty and drool-worthy, is total overkill for that sort of job.

I am so good, I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

Note for future reference: When having trouble setting-up printers on a PC, use Apple software to fix it!

Bonjour in-fact…

And to install a printer which is connected to an Apple airport network, check this out!

Cop THAT Ballmer, you skanky git!