The cosmic forces have for many years punished me (for being such a jerk) by making something aggravating happen every time I purchase an expensive piece of computer hardware.

So today I buy a nice shiny new laptop (17" widescreen) and shortly thereafter find out that my route firmware has a bug where it refuses to accept ANY password, especially the one that I set 15 seconds previously.

Then after about 2 hours of spitting, throwing things and swearing loudly, I manage to get everything on the network again - apart from my lovely little netbook, which promptly decided to go on strike and won't connect to the WIFI even after actual prayers to our Holy Father.

I have therefore decided to send Bill Gates £1000 of my hard earned in the hope that this may go some way to redressing the Karmic balance and restore me to the land of the deserved.

But oh lordy it's a nice laptop.