My powerpack for my Toshiba Satellite finally gave up the ghost. Thankfully our neighbour Matthias happened to have a spare he's not using at the moment. This means I will still be able to use my laptop until I can order one tomorrow (and wait for it to arrive).

Matthias also showed me this piece of software running on his mobile phone. He can check the status of his peer to peer downloads via GPRS on his mobile phone. It's the digital world people! The digital world!