Lettice, pink_weasel, is in Paris, living the high life of a textiles student. So I’m all alone.

Might be worse. A recruitment consultant (oh yes, them again) called today about a job that would have involved a month or two in the USA getting up to speed with the parent company. That would have been different. But I think the role needed a different skill set. Can’t be sure, the job spec was typically vague.

I think something is buggered. I blame Windows. Of course. Two pieces of software are acting oddly. Norton Internet Security tells me something about “Symantic User Session has encountered a problem and needs to close” whilst Pegasus Mail tells me that the connection is being refused by all four of my mail servers. The fact that my firewall and my e-mail bugger up at the same time is very worrying. I suspect that some Windows driver or whatnot (technical term) that those two processes use has been corrupted but who knows?

I see an evening of burning backups and reinstalling stuff. That needs stamina, stamina needs fuel, fuel of the frothy brown liquid variety. Maybe. Grragh.

£400 for a Mac Mini? Hmm….