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Originally uploaded by blind sam.

Aside from the 'useful' message which my phone now attaches to images sent to flickr, apart from my phone's truly hopeless white balancing, and apart from the fact that I couldn't tell that the image was out of focus when it was on the little screen, this image is a testimony to metal laptop cases.

Yesterday I dropped my laptop onto a concrete floor which, as you can see, remodelled the exterior. As the machine still seems to function fine, I'm not as concerned as I could be. I thought about it this way - if this was a plastic case, I would now be crying and poking needles in my eyes and self loathing at my patent idiocy whilst sweeping up shards from the floor and dreaming up excuses to give to the insurance company whose 'services' I don't have...

I was really quite happy to have made a back up of my hard drive at that point. So, people, get yourself some back up bling, please.