Alan Cox's Exploding Laptop

Bowie J. Poag writes to mention a page put up to commemorate the explosion of Alan Cox's laptop. From the article: "Alan was on the other side of the room from the laptop. I was elsewhere. He yelled out, I ambled towards the room in my own good time, and then I heard 'Fire! Real fire! Call the fire brigade, now!' and I speeded up a bit. From Alan subsequently, I gather there was an explosion and flying pieces of laptop, and a fireball, and a couple of fires started where (presumably) boiling battery landed, and one fragment smashed an LCD monitor. And then there was smoke and smell (there is still smell) and smoke alarm wailing and firemen and sirens and paramedics (happily unneeded) and police and a man with a notebook asking questions for the fire report.'"

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Re:Real source of "info" on Alan Cox

[in2mind]

Dude, at least site the source of your data (and more complete information at that): wikipedia page for Alan Cox.

Whats the big deal with you posting the wikipedia link? I didnt post it coz the wikipedia link was there in the story summary itself.What snippet I posted about Alan was for info only without any intention of appearing as if I wrote that. Dont unnecessarily colour things.& keep your dumb detective work to yourself.