First it was the iron (bought just prior to Loncon). Then it was the SD card in my camera. Today it was the hinge on my little Vye netbook.

The first two now replaced via losing only three pictures and a delay to last week's ironing. The last meant nearly copying the entire internettrying to copy the home directory to Dropbox including the Dropbox directory it contained32–2.5 million files later.... In truth I had only a dozen locally-stored files to copy away. I'll miss my Vye with Peppermint, but it was beginning to struggle even with a minimal setupand; there was a crack in the fascia around the screen; the keyboard had been well-trampled by the appalling beast, and the left button on the trackpad was dying. So.

It gave me a couple of good years which for a second-hand piece of kit is no bad thing. Adds new netbook to list of things required, along with new mobile phone.

ETA: Hudl conked out while I was sending an email. Hudl 2 won't charge.