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My work laptop has developed a mysterious hardware fault. This means that:

• I have had to cycle into work on a day on which I was supposed to be working from home (although I was still around to receive a parcel, which was handy)


• My morning's work is toast


• I'm spending an exciting afternoon installing Microsoft Visual Studio onto an old consultant laptop.


• I am boooored.

I feel like demanding entertainment from my flist, but (a)that's not terribly polite, and (b)I don't know what to demand in any case. But if you feel like regaling me with amusing stories or interesting facts, I'll be refreshing at about ... ooh, once a minute, or so.

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Thought of something I wanted to ask (and apologies for being scatterbrained and spamming my flist):

Has anyone tried making eggless royal icing, to this this recipe from the bbc or any other? Do you think that recipe would work?

I'm not against using raw egg if it's absolutely necessary, but if there's a reasonable alternative I'd rather use that. My mum in particular is rather nervous of eggs which haven't been thoroughly cooked.