Bought the magazines, gum, nasty coffee and overpriced slice of pizza. Boarding should start in about half an hour so I've got some time to kill. Just received Battlefield 2 today so I will try to get some gaming done during the flight if I manage to find some elbow room. I can't wait for in-flight WiFi. Off to try my luck with another cup of mistery coffee. Update: Notebook battery was dead so no in-flight gaming. Instead I had to endure Hitch on the world's worst entertainment system. It's hard to trust the technology that flies the plane when they can't even play a movie without the tape mashing up, yes the tape. I don't know which car boot sale they bought their system from but they'd do well with some maintenance. It was a strange scene, the guy next to me watching The Aviator on a portable DVD player (looked good), a couple of rows ahead someone working on an Excel sheet, me listening to MP3s while the crew is messing with the head tracking of the tape player -- "Go back! It was good a second ago, ah, now you missed it..." I know that times are hard so could someone please buy them a 30 quid DVD player from Maplins? Strangely enough, I'm not talking about a bring-your-own-food, fight over seats, rusty winged, drunken pilot charter carrier either; this was none other than the 200 quid ($450) a seat British Airways flight to Heathrow... The food, however, was surprisingly decent.