Blog2021 ≫ Work have taken over my laptop

Hmm I had to install something on my personal laptop to use it temporarily for work, and now it has been completely assimilated... I hope it's not going to start deleting things that it things are not work related.

As I was writing that I heard back from Apple support to say while it looked like a plan yesterday, today I am not eligible for an on-site repair of my broken work laptop. Can I take it to the nearest Apple store? In Canterbury? Sure I can do that on Saturday but it's not ideal. Or can I take it to the office? I need a bit more notice to go in there because it's half term and the boys are here, it would take me at least two hours each way trying to do that spontaneously today and would I be sure to get the laptop back right away? Instead they're sending a courier to collect it. I think they should have done this yesterday, and preemptively sent me a new laptop.

In other work news the end of year results are in, and they are mostly really good, and everyone is pleased.

Man alive these tories are corrupt aren't they?

Country cases deaths
USA 31993064 576360
Brazil 13521409 355031
Mexico 2280213 209338
India 13686073 171089
UK 4373342 127100
Italy 3779586 114612
Russia 4649710 103263
France 5067216 99135
Germany 3021064 79110
Spain 3370256 76525

UPDATE: aargh laptop woes are not over, now I have to phone an independent-but-authorised apple dealer to do this. They're not local, how will this be quicker? This is where Holiday Extras did well, we had qualified experts on site who could do this.

UPDATE UPDATE: this kept going all day, gone back to the idea of posting the broken laptop and getting a temporary one posted to me. There was talk of me going to London to get it, doesn't seem the most efficient way though.

Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + Mexico + India + UK + Italy

popex graph Graph line from 4417.0 to 27759.0🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Graph line from 2195.0 to 20711.0🇧🇷 🇧🇷 Graph line from 1770.0 to 10676.0🇲🇽 🇲🇽 Graph line from 565.0 to 8514.0🇮🇳 🇮🇳 Graph line from -3671.0 to 9844.0🇬🇧 🇬🇧 -3571 deaths? 🇬🇧 readjusted figures here! Graph line from 39.0 to 5897.0🇮🇹 🇮🇹 Y axis of graph 0 - 5000 - 10000 - 15000 - 20000 - 25000 - X axis of graph May '20 Jun '20 Jul '20 Aug '20 Sep '20 Oct '20 Nov '20 Dec '20 Jan '21 Feb '21 Mar '21 Apr '21

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