Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Compy died in a new and interesting fashion last night. It switched itself off while I was in mid-internet browse. "Umm," I thought, "that's not good!" It has been blisteringly hot in my lounge and it was making a bit of noise so I took the case off and cleaned off the fans. The box inside was seriously hot, too hot to touch. I ulped. Put everything back together and switched it on - nuffink. Totally dead.

So I left it until this morning, figuring 12 hours to cool down completely wouldn't hurt and tried it this morning. Lo! It turned on! Blue power light, gentle humming from the box. BUT - I have no power to the peripherals - no keyboard, no monitor, no mouse, no modem *boggles* If it was the motherboard, I wouldn't have thought it would have switched on at all? Likewise if there was a problem with the power supply. Hrm. Anyway, the really good news is as far as I know it's still under warranty (it was bought at the end of last July), and I will phone PC World at lunchtime and check that if I take it over to the Stevenage store and wail at them, it'll get fixed.

Now I have a very shiny laptop and, had I been able to find my modem set up cd, I could have had internet connectivity last night. But for the first time in forever, the set up cd was nowhere to be found. Isn't it bloomin' always the way? *headdesks* So until the box gets fixed/replaced or I find the set up cd, I will be internet-less from home for the duration. And while I can access LJ/FB from work, I can't get to email, so no email for meeeeee for a while. If you need me, I'm clinging to my mobile more than usual :D (Note to self: get a damn iPhone!!)

I'm told my baby compy lives and has been running happily for several hours now with nary a noise or a BSoD. So we'll see. The other good news is that it's under warranty until the end of this month so if there are problems, hopefully I'll know about it soon enough to get it fixed for nuffink.

From the "As it happens" Wimbledon live text coverage on the BBC website today, covering the Williams/Kvitova semi final.

Serena 7-6 4-2 Kvitova *
Question Tweeted over by@zedlowe: "What's the craic with serena's shoes? 02 07 09 in little patterns on heel....wise man you are, please find out." I was going to say the dates of her Wimbledon titles, but there's no '03 and shouldn't be an '07. I'll get Cheese on it.

1653: Nice shout from @krisevans on Twitter: "02 07 09 date of last wimbers title win for serena."

1659: The intrigue continues - from @VelvetJones: "In answer to the 02 07 09.. my guess is it's the date Serena won last year's Ladies Semi Final then went on to win Wimbledon." You'd mark a semi-final win on your shoes ahead of three Venus Rosewater dishes?

1712: Hold on - this from @Mitchyuk: "lucky semi-final date for today, maybe lucky final dates on shoes for Saturday?"

*BEAMS* Be interesting now to see if I'm right :D