Technology

I'm being thwarted by technology at the moment. I seem to be a target for faulty electrical goods or something.

Firstly, I'm currently trying very hard not to jiggle my laptop too much (kind of defeating the point of a laptop here) as I am once again suffering a dodgy Dell power cable.

Every laptop I have, I go through quite a few power cables and adapters and they always start to get loose connections on the end which is connected to the computer so the power cuts out when you knock it, which isn't fun.

Trying to solve it, I've managed to buy (off eBay, obviously) a generic adapter with a plug that doesn't fit UK sockets properly, so now need to sort that out as well.

To be fair it might be me, I had problems with a Compaq tablet laptop (cool idea, took a while to get used to but I kinda miss it). I think I just overwork computers.

My digital camera battery has also decided to die on me. It's refusing to recharge, so no pictures (and I was totally going to work on my Etsy shop this weekend and everything).

Googling both these problems, looks like they're not uncommon.

Hopefully, the internet problem is fixed. It's been cutting out every night between 10pm and 2am and then it doesn't come back on until 11am the next, which is incredibly annoying. Landlords came round this morning with a new modem, which hopefully will solve it. If it doesn't there's a new router we can try.

If that doesn't fix it then at least we've established that it's Virgin Media being useless.