I started a new job today!

I’m working for a small company who “specialise in the planning, design, installation and commissioning of high technology facilities to the broadcast and media industries”.

So far it’s been pretty interesting - I spent the first half of the day loading up a van, stuff like Apple Mac Pro’s, ViewSonic 22″ Monitors, 48U Racks etc, that was being shipped to Paris. After that I tidied up about a third of the storage area of their premises - various bits of equipment, racks and cardboard boxes that had to be moved, packed, unpacked or thrown out.

The second half of the I spent rebuilding the first of about 5 PCs: Putting Windows, Office and AutoCAD on it. The PCs themselves are pretty crappy and old, but the monitor I’m using is really nice - a reasonably new Dell 2407WFP

Two weeks ago, my power supply packed up - it was working fine, I left the room for an hour, and the PC was off and refused to turn back on

Luckily the PSU was still under warranty, so hopefully I should receive a repaired/replaced PSU some time soon after RMAing it last week.

On Friday of last week though, my Graphics Card died! This was also still under warranty, so I RMA’d it today to Scan, who will hopefully send me a replacement by the end of the week.

They say bad things come in threes, so I’m waiting for something else to stop working now - unless the third thing was Royal Mail’s overly-excessive (and seemingly random) pricing. £14 to send a PSU with very little insurance, but only £6 to send a graphics card with up to £500 insurance! WTF!

I’ve been using my Laptop with a full-size keyboard, my normal and my monitor mouse plugged in, so I can at least keep more-or-less up-to-date with things (email, RSS feeds etc), but all of the stuff I was working on is on my PC - so all my VB, PHP and C# development has come to a complete stop until the PC is revived.