Not unlike many others, The Register got attached to their hardware:
The Register is saddened to announce the apparent demise of its netBook, which drowned in the contents of a bottle of Bordeaux Blanc in the bottom of a Symbian Developer Conference shoulderbag last Friday. “It’s how he would have wanted to go,” sobbed a distraught owner. Just one week previously the netBook had seemed in perfect health, reporting the Microsoft Office 2003 reviewer’s workshop without recharging while Tablet PCs fell over all around him. Sadly, although the IBM Microdrive with the pre-conference backup emerged unscathed from detox, he took the notes from the conference with him. “That’s how he’d have wanted to go as well,” added the owner. Funeral arrangements will be announced should a visit to Psion-Tek ER in Milton-Keynes prove unsuccessful. No flowers please, but if anybody’s got a spare…
May it rust in pieces