Things I nearly bought today (but didn’t)

I almost bought a copy of the latest WordPerfect for the new notebook (not laptop as you can’t use it on your lap without setting fire to yourself).. Then my “Irwin sense” kicked in and I did some price comparison. And found that an American would pay fewer dollars (currently 1.6 to the pound sterling) than I would pay pounds sterling for the same piece of plastic. So I decided to recycle an old copy of WordPerf from a retired computer and raise two phantom fingers to that bunch of rip-off merchants Corel, who think British customers should pay 80% more than their American buyers for the same product. And you can’t dismiss that much of a difference by blaming it on the VAT.