Views from the Reading Room

The machine I usually use to access the internet has been having a bit of trouble with the display recently, and this afternoon it will. not. stabilize (not even enough to shut it down properly, so I had to disconnect the power and wait for the battery to run down - it's an old battery and doesn't reliably hold enough charge to actually use). I can do some things, including log in here, on my old PC, but (i) everything's really slow (ii) it won't run recent software, and I don't have AdBlock on it, so other sites are annoying (iii) the things that are not just hobbies that I should be doing online won't work on here. Also, I don't have the software to do proper backups, so there's a lot of things I don't have copies of.

Will this stop me wasting so much time on the internet? Only until I get something I can use more easily back, I reckon.

I might have to buy a new one, which would be my first not-passed-down-from-a-friend-upgrading computer, and which I can't really afford at the moment.

So if I'm around even less than usual, that's why.