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This evening I have been trying to get a payment from an eBay sale through PayPal. Unfortunately for me, I have always been more of an eBay buyer than seller, keener to find a bargain, than I am to sell off my useless hoarded wares.

So having made a sale using PayPal I was confronted with the uncomfortable situation of not being able to remember two out of the three security criteria I had input when I signed up to its services. Hence I couldn't recieve the cash or find the buyer's address to send the goods to.

We have just moved house from London town to rural, sunny Norfolk. It's lovely and has all gone fairly smoothly, apart from my wife's running battle with BT's customer service team to get our broadband set up. Of course, the fact that BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen confirmed his departure last week has nothing to do with this event in the Garner household, although I can confess that my wife is a formidable woman and not one to be trifled with!

Facebook was in the news again last week as the social networking site was used to organise a huge water fight in city centres across the country on Bank Holiday Monday last week.

The Facebook posting saw about 350 people gather at Leeds's prize-winning gardens that were named after former South Africa premier Nelson Mandela, the gathering and water fight caused thousands of pounds of damage.

Leeds council has vowed to find the culprits and the police may press charges for criminal damage after reviewing CCTV footage.

Of course, you don't need to be in the Police to see who was taking part - just go to to YouTube where they're several videos of the event taking place.... perhaps not the brightest way to hide the fact you've been involved in criminal activity!

Your favourite story was JP Kamath's video review of the new Aldo £600 notebook, which he recommends as a good purchase for students, but not for professionals.

1. Video review £600 Aldi Medion Akoya MD 96640 multimedia notebook

What have been the most interesting stories for your peers in the past week? Here's last week's top five:

I can't wait to watch fellow ComputerWeekly blogger Ian White star in 'The Real Hell's Kitchens: Tonight' on ITV1 on Friday (23 May) at 8pm... Ian was put through his paces as the programme investigated the stress levels of different professions. So watch on Friday to see how Ian represented teh IT profession... good on you Ian for having a go!

We've just discovered a nifty little service called Dipity, which pulls together your RSS feeds and the like into a handy, scrollable timeline. If you fancy playing, hop on over to Dipity yourself... If you have time on your hands, you can also manually create 'events' in your timeline, which could make it a useful presentation tool when planning projects.

By now you must have watched ComputerWeekly.com web editor James Garner attempting to destroy three PCs furtively smuggled out of RBI's Sutton offices under cover of, well, a Charlie Chaplin walk and a boiler suit disguise. (You haven't seen them yet? Watch the videos - fire, water and crush - here.) But just what was he so keen to hide?

Data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack achieved a 100% successful recovery of the data on our damaged drives, so, keen to find out more, I headed over to their offices in Epsom last week, where I met Pedro, pictured right. Pedro was the engineer who worked on our worked on our machines and you can find out what he thought of our attempts to defeat him in our extreme data recovery recovery film. Let's just say, I'm voting Pedro... But what exactly was he able to retrieve?

Here's how to find out whether or not you spend too much time on YouTube. Can you spot all the Interent meme references in Weezer's Pork and Beans video? If so, you definitely need rehab...

But Weezer weren't the first US nerd rock band to take on this concept. The Barenaked Ladies got there first. See over the jump for more...