I euthanised my faithful companion :/

As I posted a while back, my old Acer laptop that I got in my second year at Uni broke. The screen decided to go on the blitz, rendering the laptop pretty much unusable. Well, my wonderful mother ran it through the house insurance, and it's been replaced with a shiney new Acer Travelmate 5720. I really must commend Abbey for the hassle free house insurance they provide. I filled in no forms, they picked up the laptop next day, and I had a brand new laptop just over a week later.

And, compared to my old one, what a laptop it is! It's pretty much quadruple the specification of my old one, and (despite my inital hate) I'm growing to like Vista. The graphics card is *much* better than my old one (and much better than the one in the main PC!), which means that I've *finally* been able to play Portal.

And finish it. Such a great game. Funny, too. The song at the end is brilliant. Except, of course, now I'm hungry for cake :/

In other news, I'm off to Edinburgh for a week to do some jobhunting. I've already got one interview lined up, with a web development company. Hopefully something will finally work out :)


Now off to play through HL2: Ep 1 & 2...