Nothing says, “I earn too much,” like a white silk tie around the office. But I was in a good mood. My laptop was delivered much earlier than expected (although it forced me to miss Curry Night) and even with only a handful of hours sleep, I was still buzzing. Silently. It’s a truly beautiful piece of machinery, and I was especially surprised by the quality of the screen. I had chosen to upgrade it from the standard WXGA to WSXGA, the difference being an increased resolution of up to 1680×1050. The clarity is truly startling. So there’ll now be a few intensive days of downloading, installing and tweaking absolutely everything to make it look and feel…well, perfect would be a good start. And I now have UT2004 and Doom3 to keep me sane. There’s nothing quite so therapeutic as blowing the faces off aliens in an abandoned research station on Mars…