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If you don't regularly follow Simon Travaglia's BOFH column at The Register, then you're missing out. Missing out bigtime, as the BOFH's adventures go back to the dawn of time - Simon started writing them as a bored operator in the mid-90s, posting the occasional homicidal story of revenge on users to Usenet.

The current episode is a classic, with a dig at Mac users, followed by a hilarious twist involving the PFY and Acorn machines.

The BOFH regularly slams OS/2 as well, so it looks like all my favourite computing environments come in for a kicking ;-)

In case mobiles covered in Swarovski crystal wasn't enough, ComputerChoppers are offering to plate your McBook Pro in 24 carat gold, for around £700.

As you can see from looking on their site, they do a really good job - completely taking apart the machine, painting and re-etching the keyboard, the works.

For an extra fee you can get the Apple logo encrusted with diamonds.

I want to see someone replace the aluminium with titanium so we don't have to put up with the constant dings and scratches. My TiBook was a great laptop :-(

There should be an animated icon of Nelson from the Simpson's saying "Ha Ha!"

PC users are going to have to suck it down - hard - with Vista versions of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3.

Those of us who have achieved enlightenment and become one with the Mac now have another reason to mock those with Vista - we get all the cool games, too.