side tracked

I have got completely side tracked tonight as my wife's laptop (windows vista) decided to not recognise its cd-dvd drive! all she was trying to do was install a web cam! on well I might be some time! 

update: at about 2am BST (saturday) morning it is effectively sorted. I have to say that working with a windows XP based networked machines; and a lot of microsoft software in my day job. as well of course as using mac systems through choice. 'vista' as an operating system seems more than a little bit annoying.

the things I do?

I sometimes worry how I get myself in to stuff, not for the first time I have been encouraged by others into doing something a little bit silly. today I volunteered to go in the stocks to raise money by having students throw sponges of cold water at me. well it wasn't too bad until the bucket of cold water was tipped over me, followed by another one, followed by another one. but it did a little to raise some money. I didn't realise so many people would enjoy seeing me getting soaked so much, oh well the fact that I am sitting down a few hours later feeling cold with a lump on my head (from a bucket that hit me as it was swung) is not that bad.