Death of a Travelling Salesman

Well, actually, death of a laptop. My laptop died today, after roughly three and a half years of service. It may be possible to revive it via electrical shock (a new power adaptor), but do I want to spend the best part of $100 on restoring an item which has been about to die for six other reasons for the last year? Anyway, this event in no way explains the long delay since the last entry. Nevermind, have an almost topical haiku:

Alastair Campbell
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sex'd up dossier?

Or, since I'm experimenting with the form, a limeraiku (that's a limerick in the form of a haiku) from the perspective of the BBC:

So Campbell's mangled
Dossier was toss, we say.
Oh, what a shambles!

That'll have to do for now. Quick moral dilemma till next time: what do you do when you are looking over someone's wedding list trying to select a gift, and you feel that all the items on there are a flagrant waste of money?