There is nothing like having to resort to your ancient Windows laptop to take the shine off the whole internet experience. There I was on Friday night, downloading the first episode of Supernatural’s new season (legally I might add) when I noticed my battery was running low on my Mac. I reached for my power adaptor, plugged into the wall, heard a worrying crackle sound and watched as the LED died on the cable. Hmmmm…. I was hoping it was a fuse but I tried every fuse in the house with no luck. The power cable is dead as a dodo.

I’ve been having bother with a dodgy wall socket for the past few weeks and thought the problem had been resolved. My brother took it off the wall and checked all the wires thoroughly before giving it a clean bill of health. It seemed to be okay after that, then I noticed my hair dryer plug was getting hot again after use. I really should have listened to my instincts and plugged my power cable into a different socket and the poor thing probably would’ve survived to live another day. Alas, I was too anxious to watch the new SPN episode and ignored the sound advice. Result: one dead power cable and one pretty useless Mac because the battery is almost down.

Being the canny person I am, I transferred the episode to my old laptop only to discover the green screen of death on iTunes. Somewhere along the line, technology has moved on in the Apple world and my old laptop graphics card has resigned itself to defeat. Not to be thwarted, I went online and tried every hint I found to no avail. My laptop officially sucks big time but I already knew that when I realised it wasn’t even good enough to play The Sims 2. The laptop was bought from my brother before the wonders of Apple were revealed to me.

Again, not to be thwarted in my endeavour, I transferred the episode to my iPod Touch where it played perfectly, although I did have to sacrifice all the other content on it. Not to worry, as soon as the Mac is back with a new power cable, I can restore it all. Methinks there is some irony in there somewhere when you think a tiny wee iPod can play a TV show better than a big laptop.

Not only that, since the Ancient one has been resigned to the shelf for the past few months, I’ve obviously missed a few updates and it has spent all weekend downloading them. I’m so frustrated with it, I’m going to scream. How many fracking updates do Microsoft need? Oh, wait, stupid question.

No Prison Break eps as planned, no Sims adventures… Oh, Mac, how I miss thee…