Friday Review: Thank puck for that

This Thanksgiving I have two things to be thankful for: my local hardware shop and Sunday trading hours. Last Saturday while tidying the flat in preparation for a party, I cheerfully chopped up and threw out what I thought was a superfluous length of phone cable in the living room...until I noticed a conspicuous absence of flickering lights on my modem. As it transpired, the cable in question was not quite redundant, and I lacked sufficient time to repair it before my guests arrived. Fortunately for all concerned, my impromptu foray into cord cutting did not scupper my plan to stream music during said shindig, thanks to a base station on the building opposite and my insistence on an unlimited data plan…