baby, what's in that satchel?

after a month of staying here, mother informs me that my grandad's old laptop can actually be used, and that we have *shock horror* an adsl connection. prior to this, my @$#*(%& stinking rotter of an uncle told me that a password was required to access the internet *and* the laptop and he didn't know the password for either. now i must figure out a way to download msn.