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I'm a technology consultant, focused on enterprise collaborative applications. I'm based in North-east Scotland but work all over Europe, and sometimes I present at technology conferences using a mixture of deep-technology and humour to keep the audience awake.

I'm married with one grown-up daughter of whom I'm immensely proud, and have family members covering most significant time-zones. We took 'hide and seek' seriously.

Other interests include making excuses not to go to the gym, testing the tolerance of my peers with humour, and sometimes bringing my 20-year old ZZR 600 out of the garage to terrify myself with.

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Dec222009

D'oh!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 4:38PM

On a train last week, I was impressed to see power adaptors for laptops. Until I tried to plug mine in:

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Reader Comments (3)

That's a not uncommon problem with these all in one plug/psu units. Although it can be awkward having to carry extra bits I quite like the power supply for my eeepc - it uses a simple figure of 8 connector and I've replaced the lead to that with a slimplug which neatly folds down the prongs.

Maybe you should buy cheaper hardware.

December 22, 2009 |

Graham Rule

;-)

Och, I also have a long flexible power lead for that adaptor, but never have had to use it. Not a huge issue, just funny. The Macbook Pro 13" battery really *does* last for seven hours..

---* Bill

December 23, 2009 |

Bill Buchan

Yes the insistance on making the largest plug in creation to, power your mac, is a bit of an issue when travelling.......

December 24, 2009 |

NeilT

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