Feb 02 2008
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Just finished Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, adapted from a set of books I know nothing about. But it was some fabulous high-camp silliness against Gothic scenery. I’m half-inclined to root out the books, but maybe I’m a bit old for them nowadays?
In other news, I tried to watch the DVD on my monitor using Helen’s laptop, but it seems that Apple no longer supply video adaptors with their laptops. So we’ve got an old one that fits the iBook but not one with a mini-DVI connector. I am not best impressed — surely they don’t mean for laptop owners to spent £15 extra to use the video out port? What’s the point of having it if you can’t just plug things straight in?
It kinda makes sense to not include it, as for home users not everyone will want to use it, and so might want to cut costs. There is a checkbox on the order page that will give you one.
This doesn’t explain why it costs 15 pounds though.