A small update

While I still do not have a properly working PC setup and do not expect to do so for a while yet, things have improved somewhat from where they were a few days ago. I've unearthed a very old but largely useable computer.¹ I had to find a VGA cable as its graphics setup is ancient and doesn't support HDMI etc, but that's now done and it boots to desktop.

¹ It's a Core 2 Duo E6750 with a mighty two gigs of memory and an 8600GT card...

It's running an old version of Linux Mint (17) and given both that and the ludicrous resource hoggery of modern browsers it's going to have to be an offline machine. However,  this means I have access to a proper keyboard, mouse and word processor. Yay! This in turn means I can start typing up my UK PonyCon report.

The plan is to write on this PC, then transfer the finished document to the phone via USB and upload from there to here. The reports will necessarily be a tad basic in appearance this year, and I'm not sure how well I'll be able to integrate photos, but it's something. I hope to have the first post up in a few days.

Ponyfic Roundup posts and other text-centric stuff should also be reasonably straightforward. More multimedia-y things like My Little Repeats may have to wait slightly longer, especially as the old PC's DVD drive doesn't seem to be functioning properly. But still, it's something!