Thanks to Adam I am now a proud owner of a Cartier Santos Dumont – one I can wear in Brazil without fear! (It’s a fake from China).

PS: Statue of Santos getting a good clean.

Credit to DELL they arrived at 09:20 this morning and picked up the dead PC; and the support guy Anarug (who thanked me for working as a team together in checking out the PC yesterday, which was a clever touch) sent through an email to check if I needed anything more.

That said a previous DELL support chap from the initial OS re-installation task rang to check if everything was now OK; er, no, if your system was able to link up task around the same customer, and if you had checked before calling you’d have seen that the PC is now kaput!.