My MP3 player has been sat with a flat battery in my bag for the last two weeks, making it a rather expensive brick…

The high-capacity hard disc drive and Slim Devices Squeezebox are however examples of fantastic technology. Two full boxes worth of CDs weighing a tonne replaced with tiny little boxes. Then someone will say I’ve taken all the romance out of browsing shelves of CDs for hours on end…

No microwave

The oven and washing machine in this place pre-date punk

No ipod or mp3 player

I do have a digital radio

I do have a digital camera

I do have a laptop, tv, and dvd/video player

I do have a mobile phone that allegedly does photo messaging and WAP but I can’t make them work

My computer has already chucked 2 wobblies involving 5 hour long phone calls to the support people in Malaysia and more tears than are worth losing a few songs I already have on cd somewhere.

My MP3 player came with a damaged face (which i thought was a cool design until it was too late to take back) and kicked the bucket soon after. I took it to be fixed (under warranty of course) and the guy told me it just wasn’t charged – I AM NOT AN IDIOT!!! Somehow it revived itself just in time for the doctors….

On my recent trip to Europe I bought a Digital Camera with all the wizz bang bits. within 7 weeks it had stopped auto focussing and doesn’t have a manual function, so I have a mere 4 photos of THailand (getting cranky).
More warranty fixing including a long drive out to the factory and then 6 weeks before it was returned to me. 3 of those were spent chasing the courier company to actually DELIVER it to me. They said they couldn’t find my office…in central Sydney….for 3 weeks?

I almost bought a USB phone on auction last night. I opted for the bright pink 5 piece luggage set instead.
I reckon if i’m going to have a sickness, it might as well be one that gets me out and smelling the roses.

My mobile is an old one of Nathan’s. I needed to swap because the keys on my original one didn’t work any more. Had it ages.

I don’t have an iPod – I’ve got enough music-laying devices already, thanks.

A man came to look at the washing machine then other week. Said there was no point servicing it because it’s too old and too cheap. It still works. The one I had before was my mum’s, and she got it cheap because it had been a display model.

I interviewed 3 sisters about their mum’s funeral the other day. They said she was ultra-thrifty and looked aftrer all her household appliances, so she was still using the same old washing machine, etc. Trouble with this is, the old ones aren’t environmentally-friendly. I’m gradually changing to A++ rating stuff that uses less energy.

My car stereo came free too. The car stays in the garage most of the time.

My dishwasher is a tabletop model, A++, and only runs when it’s full.

You win on points Lou, but I come close.

When it comes to IT software and other gadgets, if the manual’s thicker than 5mm, forget it.

And your specialist subject is?

The blinking grammar-check often tells me I’m wrong when I’m preparing a sheet on grammar for English students. I haven’t got a boss, but I still get bossed around. Can’t be right.