Sanity Eaters

I have four computers set up, but work primarily on one - my favorite.

It has a 19 inch 'fat' screen that's a delight to the eyes, and enough grunt to do what I want.

But the relentless pummelling it gets is starting to make it fray at the edges.

It's never recovered from an anti-spyware attack late last year. Yes, ANTI-spyware, not spyware.

The supposedly best-of-breed 'fix' to the spyware problem altered an unknown number of settings throughout my machine, and months of attempts have failed to get any response from the company.

In the meantime, most of the time I have to use a secondary machine whenever I want to do any online banking, access a large number of affiliate management sites, and generally do a day's work.

And of course, I haven't time to get everything off onto a safe place and reformat the hard drive - I'm too busy taking 10 times longer than necessary doing the routine tasks.

And we wonder why progress is slow!