Back in business

Work seems to have weathered the shitstorm that was yesterday. We're back on the 'net and everything seems to be going ok. This means I don't get to go home and work from there though, so that's annoying.

The stuff from ebay hasn't arrived yet. I'm getting twitchy. As much as I love ebay, I'm still a little nervous about buying expensive things there. About 150 quid has gone on the credit card, just on geekery, and there's going to be more before I'm done. Hopefully I can pinch an old NIC from work, but I still need a wavelan card for the emate. And I still don't know if it's all going to work. *sigh*

Shiny Apple goodness

My Emate arrived! Yay! Just had a bit of a play with it. The battery life on these things is supposed to be pretty great. It came fully charged and after all my monkeying around the indicator was still on full. At first I thought the screen was a bit dull, but then I found the backlight key (duh!) and it's awesome! Looks like those indiglo watches. Now all I need is for the other stuff to arrive and I'll be set! :)

It really is a sexy little beast. I have dubbed it Alderney (this PC is Orinoco, and my various other machines of varying vintage have names like Tomsk, Wellington and Great Uncle Bulgaria). Before long it will have its own IP address and be happily connected to the internet.

Yay!