Bring on the dancing horses.

• NewsTechnica: I wrote one. Must get back into the groove. Probably.

Bought a replacement Mini 9 off eBay for £107 including postage. Same spec. The hard disk is pathetically easy to replace, so it's all looking good!

In the meantime I'm using arkady's ancient Thinkpad A30, which is the size of a starship console and has quite reasonable speakers. Nice.

Freda can work the mouse and has taken to playing the games on the CBeebies website. Which is better than just watching telly.