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Thanks to the lovely mr samharber, we now have a monitor and can therefore see the internet again! What a nice man he is. He hides it well, but we know the truth.

For anyone who's interested, here's a full list of the stuff I lost in the recent Troubles.

( shopping list )

Like I said, mostly tech, easily replaced (much of it I wasn't even using regularly - especially the DS / MP3 / PDA) and probably not worth more than six to seven hundred quid all in. I'm more annoyed by the backpack and the DVD disc. Oh, and the massive inconvenience of not having a monitor for the PC. But that, at least, has been addressed.

EDITED TO ADD: Note that the above is only what I have lost. We have a much longer list of things stolen from Ant.

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Did I mention my xBox arrived? My xBox arrived.

I am currently experimenting with the ethernet connection to the PC; it asked to install an update and holy shit! The interface has entirely changed (from old to new).

I kind of like the new interface, though it's very much like the PS3 menu turned on its side. Also the network thing now does not appear to be working. I might keep you posted.

EDIT: Okay, after downloading updates and restarting like six times, I can finally stream media from my PC and play it on my TV, yay! Unfortunately it only appears to share media that is inside my My Documents folder, which makes a mockery of the whole notion of a "media drive" (where I put all my videos so they are not taking up room on my main drive). I suppose I could live with copying stuff onto C: whenever I want to watch them on the TV, but surely there must be a better way.

Hmm, I wonder if it'll play those Doctor Who CDs now it's got the updated codecs and such like...

EDIT: Some of them. And now, to bed.