Afternoon, possums and dawgs. Is
Robinia losing it? All this advising and highbrow quoting...? Or could it be she's rehearsing for her new job as oracle down at the Westfield shopping centre...?
knows all tells all This is my favourite Bacon:
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. The way of fortune is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.
...and your old Winston expressed it like this:
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Sorry I can't be of much help in the laptop discussion
Neti, I always ask around myself. Have you posted a question over at Technology? My laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-NR11S/S. It's very basic but didn't cost a lot and I've dropped it on the floor once and it didn't even go Ouch... I agree with
Shaney - the keyboard I can manage but I don't get along with the touch pad so I've got an extern mouse, an extern loudspeaker, a notebook stand to raise the screen up and an extern keyboard as the notebook stand places the laptop at such an angle that its own keyboard can't be used... But if you do want to get your daughter a good, basic, cheap laptop
mine's okay