New computer!

It arrived! This morning, way before I expected it.
Have been playing about with it all today, putting it together and trying to salvage old data from my last (now defunct) computer. Sadly one of the disks was completely beyond hope, taking with it my email inbox (aargh) and more annoyingly a lot of my recent programming. Will salvage what I can from university computers. This time I'm going to set it up to make automatic backups of anything I might miss!

My mp3s, though, (all 5GB of them) are now safely backed up on gominokouhai's hard disk. Much gratitude to scattergather, without whom it would have taken me about twice as long to do this!

Anyway, I can very definitely recommend Novatech.co.uk, as they're cheap and fast, with a well-designed web site, and a lot more reliable than the russian roulette service you get with dodgy companies such as Ebuyer.com

Unfortunately, I can't find the Windows XP disk I thought was around here, so I can't properly set up my computer yet. I expect to be acquiring one soon notinanyillegalwayofcourseI'magoodboyhonest.

Jesus H. Christ on a stick

'The police are looting. This has been confirmed by several independent sources. Some of the looting might be "legitimate" in as much as that word has any meaning in this context. They have broken into ATMs and safes: confirmed. We have eyewitnesses to this. They have taken dozens of SUVs from dealerships ostensibly for official use. They have also looted gun stores and pawn shops for all the small arms, supposedly to prevent "criminals" from doing so. But who knows their true intentions. We have an inside source in the NOPD who says that command and control is in chaos. He reports that command lapses more than 24 hours between check-ins, and that most of the force are "like deer in the headlights." NOPD already had a reputation for corruption, but I am telling you now that the people we've been talking to say they are not recognizing the NOPD as a legitimate authority anymore, since cops have been seen looting in Walmarts and forcing people out of stores so they could back up SUVs and loot them. Don't shoot the messenger....'

From interdictor's blog from New Orleans.