Laptop Delay :-(

I got the order number for my new Dell Laptop today, and went to check the estimated delivery date - which is 6 August! That's just insane - the quote said 10 to 14 days, so two and a half months seems a bit excessive. I'll get hold of them on monday and find out if that estimate really is right - and if so, I want to cancel my order.

It's a pity - that laptop had pretty much everything I wanted (except a really hi-res screen, but I could live with 1024 x 768). The other one I'm now looking at is the Acer Travelmate 2701LC, but it's not as good, not as configurable, and weighs almost a whole kilogram more :-(

Darn.

On the good side, I went to the SA Developer May Meeting this evening, which was fairly interesting, and I got some cool stuff - a SA Dev t-shirt, a copy of "Writing Secure Code", and a radio that looks like a mouse. We mostly went over the new C# features, most of which I'd seen at DevDays but had half-forgotten already, so a refresh was really useful.

Average happiness rating for the day: 2 bad points, 1 good point: averages out to so-so, I guess.