I'm there!

Or, to be more precise, here. I'm all moved in, got my machine hooked up to the network (eventually -- dead network card bah!), met some of my very nice neighbours, had a good evening talking until about 1am.

So far so good.

I'm missing people from the Penguin house, though. Next week end seems like a very long time in the future right now...

Laser printer mystery solved

On Friday, we finallly got to the bottom of the mystery of the laser printer that failed to turn up after being bought on eBay.

Seemingly, it was sent quite quickly. However, the person (who shall remain nameless) who brokered the deal for me had an incorrect address set up on her paypal account. As a consequence of this, the first line of the address (i.e. the one with the street name and number) was actually missing. The parcel found its way to Businesspost in Croydon, then sat around undulivered while people decided what to do about it.

Anyway, all sorted. It will be delivered on Monday. Too late to go with me, but at least I'll have it here next week end. :-)

Broadband is for wusses

I just downloaded a file from Microsoft at 870k/second. That's BYTES per second. Not bits, bytes. The local record is about twice that.

20 times the speed of ADSL anyone???

I'd say more, but the only words that come to mind are rude.

Soooooo Coooold!

My college room is very nice, but bloody freezing.

Everything I own is plugged in and turned on right now. i've even disabled my screen savers so the moniters still emit heat. I'm going to buy a fan heater tomorrow. Until then, I'll be mostly huddling under a duvet.

Obviously, in Cambridge, it doesn't get cold without permission, and certainly never outside full term!