I copied all of my CDs onto network storage. Not only is it a safer location, but easier to find and takes up less shelf space!

Are you too young to remember... or maybe too old to remember? *8-7 Back before floppy discs we used to buy blank cassettes and use a twin tape deck to copy mate's games for the BBC B and Spectrum. It was the same for music! Half the reason for buying originals was getting the documentation and printed packaging.

Ah, here in the UK I went from 2Mbps in Peterborough to 8Mbps in a small village 40 miles north, 2 minutes walk from a primary school.

Move to the sticks, by a school. You get much better speed than in a city with less contention. This is my experience anyway.

I have this book too. I even emailed the author about his excessive use of the word "bunch" and he answered in good humour. Good book though.

Vindaloo?

I work hardest with music playing, to cover the hum of the servers behind me in my office. I work most enjoyably from the summerhouse, cool breeze between my knees and ducks quacking before me. I work the most fanatically after several shots of bourbon on a laptop from the sofa.

*halts crystal ball production

I did a UK computing-related degree back in 1990-93 and was fully aware that anything I wrote on university machines was their property. I bought a PC and worked from my own place instead.