Murphy wrote a special law, just for me.

Well, the Alienware just arrived. For once things were going my way - so I suppose it's not terribly surprising that it all went bollocks up.

Yeah, it doesn't do anything. The box lights up and whirrs along, but nothing comes through to the screen. I spend 38 minutes and £16 on the phone to tech support, took the whole thing halfway apart and back again, and still nothing.

Bollocks.

The continuing saga...

So, to update: The computer still isn't working. A brand new bloody 3000-pound machine, and it's DOA. Bloody brilliant.

So I just got of the phone with DHL. They're coming to collect it in the morning, then it's going back to Ireland. At least it's getting priority in the repair queue because it's a new machine, but come on - it was a week and a half late when it got here!

Bollocks to the universe, bugger the world, and sod the rest.