I feel suitably shameful. I hadn't noticed either

I take back my Euro comparison...and head off to sing the National Anthem from the mountain tops by way of a penance.

Something similar happened to my Gateway laptop a couple of months ago. I'd been using headphones, and it turned out that contacts inside the input socket hadn't sprung back after I took the headphone jack out.

I used the highly technical technique of jabbing a bamboo kebab skewer into it and ...

Why thank you! It's the tub of Vaseline on the lens that does it

This all sounds very familiar. I was actually browsing for info on this kind of thing when I found this forum; so I guess it's not all bad :P

I ordered a Sony video mp3 player from Play.com on the 22nd of last month. They posted it on the 23rd, using Parcelforce 24. I decided to track said parcel ...

Aww, boo hiss! Ok, I'll go and fiddle about with something half decent...

...hope that's ok. Cheers for the welcome!

I don't think they're changing the £2, are they?

Over all, not bad. I totally agree with the 'Euro-esque' tag though.
I guess we'll get used to them!

Oh, hello, by the way