So, what did we do over the weekend (and my word, it's been a long time since I blogged before today!)? Well, we went down to Knightsbridge where we had a photo shoot done at Studio64. It was a prize in something Amanda entered, and we were made up and our hair done for it. The results are in the gallery - check them out.

Looks like it's probbaly the backlights that have gone in the notebook, which is something of a relief if that is all it is. Could be so much worse.

Well, okay, note quite dead, but very, very dim.

My Acer Aspire's display is very very dim and dull today since I powered it on, and in fact at one point almost totally blacked out. Thankfully I was able to SSH to it and rsync my $HOME onto another machine.

Have called a local notebook repair place, and am waiting for them to get back to me with details, and hopefully an estimate on the cost.

Really hope it's an easy and cheap fix, can't really afford to replace it (it's out of warranty).