Comments on: Win a Dell Netbook from Vodafone

By: Digital Stuffing » Who won the Dell Netbook?

Digital Stuffing » Who won the Dell Netbook? — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:36:00 +0000

[...] to Paris plus evening things arranged I’ve not had chance to let you know who was chosen to win the Netbook by the judging panel. it took a little bit of discussion as we all had our [...]

By: Tom Morris

Tom Morris — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:12:44 +0000

A full-size touch-typeable keyboard and a data connection? Some live Twitter action while having my ‘orrible British teeth fixed. Then some live streaming video action while hiding under the table, recovering from sadistic practices of dentist by napping and drinking vodka. And, of course, when I’m down in the local cupcake shop destroying my teeth, I could use it to maintain an online database of all the various sugary cake toppings for sale. Then when, after a binge on sugar, combined with a hazy drunkenness from drinking vodka straight from the bottle, I find myself buried waist deep in old books and Ethernet cable, I can go online and try to get help for my desperate situation and repel ne’er-do-wells by showing them Goatse pics with Rick Astley playing in the background.

By: Ben O'Steen

Ben O'Steen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:09:28 +0000

Well, I couldn’t decide on just one unusual place to use it, so I made a tool to help me: http://tinyurl.com/5e727k (or at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_on_the_move/3084337306/sizes/l/)

By: hugh garry

hugh garry — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:58:05 +0000

It’s not sympathy I’m after here, I just thought you might see the humourous side as to why I need a new laptop. One of my teenage sons melted the keys off my last laptop. Y’see having spilled a cup of tea on it he thought I’d never know once he’s dried the thing out using a hairdryer on full heat. unfortunately he didn’t foresee the keys falling off and obviously hoped that I wouldn’t notice the site he was viewing when he incident happened freezing the browser. He tried to hide the keys and like all good teenages would do, pretended he knew nothing and blamed it on his younger brother (who was away on camp at the time).

So left with just the vowels o.a.i.e. and consonants p.t.l.n.m.d. even carol vorderman would struggle to survive making much use of it. Having said that if I ever need to use the phases ‘Pollinated Limp’, ‘Allied Mint Plop’, ‘Napped Till Limo’ or even ‘Tail Mold Nipple’ then my remaining 10 letters are all I need. After all they’re all I need to write the phrase ‘dell-mini-laptop’ too which can’t be such a bad thing when trying to blag a free dell now can it.

True story.

Apart form the bit about the remaining letters.

I lied about them to win.

God that was desperate…

By: Rhys Wilkins

Rhys Wilkins — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:00:51 +0000

I’d use it to upload my position to a website, so that my son can see when I’ve arrived outside his mother’s house ready to collect him for weekends together. That way I don’t have to sit outside while he gets his homework/coat/shoes/brain/stuff together! Then I’d let him play Flash games on it on the way home, so that I’m not breaking my neck trying to talk to him in the back of the car as we drive home together. Then, I’d put it on charge for the next trip…

By: Garfield Southall

Garfield Southall — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:17:03 +0000

Replacing sheet music at gigs. I’d put it on my music stand with the tunes pre-arranged (pun) into sequence, so I simply pressed enter to move to the next song.
If a situation arose, as it sometimes does, where a tune has to be transposed on the fly (eg a singer cannot reach a high note, so we all play lower), we could instantly transpose using Sibelius, or similar.

Sound simple, but I’ve not seen it in a laptop.

Also mean I wouldn’t have to carry a huge music bag of sheet music around just in case we need to play a request etc.

By: Kevin Woodward

Kevin Woodward — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:57:47 +0000

Llama trekking – a new venture of mine in 2009 – so while someone else is taking my llamas for a walk (with me following behind to make sure they don’t get lost or spooked) I could be surfing the net and planning the next trek!

BTW – trekking will be in North Devon, and we live in that 2% of the country where coverage is intermittent to say the least, so it would be a challenge!

By: Dungeekin

Dungeekin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:56:21 +0000

I’d take it to the Houses of Parliament, and liveblog from the Strangers Gallery.

After all – the netbook is the absolute antithesis of MPs:

- It’s good value – they’re not;
- It does what you need it to do – politicians don’t;
- Fact-checking is easy with a Netbook (they could sure use some help there!);
- And, of course, you only have to punch the information into your Netbook once.

An uncommonly good Netbook in the Commons, publishing Creative Commons work from the Commons. Uncommonly confusing!

Dungeekin

By: Charles O'Neil

Charles O'Neil — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:42:12 +0000

My cats name is Isabella Rossellini
An Essex cat, arrived as a stray
White stilettos and pregnant to boot
Came in the window, in a bad way
To the vet she went, three weeks spent
Then a month, three kittens to the day
Lovely story but…
… the Dell Mini, I hear you say?
Well the kids left home
Isabella is left all alone
Plastic toys are only so much fun
It is time for infinity cat and other things that can be done
Let’s not restrict the competition to location
Let’s open it to interesting people, species and vocation

By: Alessia Antonelli

Alessia Antonelli — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:50:45 +0000

I would take my computer to church. I know there is a blasphemy component (a little circuitry pun) attached to it… but…..my priest’s Sunday’ preaching normally lasts for 40 minutes in itself, bringing the total length of the service to over an hour. If I sit on the last bench surfing the net, or writing my mails or doing a little bit of work, I will know that God won’t mind. After all the reason I am there is so that can keep out of that very special kind of purgatory… known as Dell Hell (a little tongue in cheek honorary to Jeff Jarvis).