It was just over a year ago that my previous PC decided to shuffle off this mortal coil in an unspectacular cloud of non-smoke. I was reminded of this fact only last Thursday night when my PC decided to do exactly the same all over again.

This time around there are no stories of crazy shenanigans involving mobile phones and weird error messages, this time around my PC just died, suddenly and properly. I’m not sure of the exact cause behind its untimely demise, only that there was an error with the motherboard that forced the machine to lock-up whenever the processor temperate reached 30 degrees Celsius. Again, the only cure this was to build a new machine, which is why I’m typing this from my brand-spangley new Intel quad-core super-deluxe PC with time travel and lottery number prediction system*.

As before, what I’m trying to say is this – my computer broke and I’ve fixed it. Let the updates commence!

*this is, in fact, a lie!