Exceeding my threshold for small print at Groupon

Dear salesperson, 

There is a limit to how many caveats you may add to a deal. The example below pretty much went over my threshold. Let's know if you noticed and resolvedthis and I may resume reading your daily mails.

Three Night Stay For Four With One Day at Disneyland® Paris and Return Ferry from £139 Per Person with the Kyriad Hotel (Up to 61% Off)

Fine print

• Expires 29 February 2012.
• Must purchase 2, 3 or 4 Groupons to complete booking, depending on option chosen. 
• Valid for double, triple or quadruple occupancy only. 
• Booking required by phone; 0844 493 4655 or the e-mail address provided on your voucher. No cancellations or date amendments. 
• Check-in from 2pm, check-out at 11am. €1.10 per day resort tax and any additional costs will be charged at the hotel. 
• £20 pp surcharge for Jan and Feb 2012 stays. 
• £40 pp surcharge for stays between 20 to 28 December 2011. 
• Not valid 29 - 31 December 2011. 
• Transfers between ferry and hotel not included. 
• Eurostar, flight and river cruise upgrades must be confirmed at time of booking, enquire for details. 
• 4* B&B upgrade from £30pp. 
• River cruise available for £15pp surcharge. 
• Original value based on hotel rack rates. Valid for option purchased only.

HP Touchpad (tablet) is not dead or bricked

It's a scary moment when you can't bring your device back to life. The fix on this page also worked on an old phone where the unit had overdischarged. The HP Touchpad has been incredibly reliable, but if it were to crash with the wireless still running, it's going to run down the battery to nothing, or worse over-discharge the battery. It can be brought to life in various ways below.

• Normal start - Press Power - but if it doesn't start
• Soft reset - Press Power + Home button for 10 to 60 seconds or
• Press Power + Volume up button for 60 seconds
• See other variations which people have reported at http://forums.webosnation.com

Of course  none of the above will work if there's no power in the unit. And there are situations where it's not possible to get power into the unit - possibly the unit has crashed and is stuck into a loop OR as someone suggested the unit has over discharged the battery. The solution was to change to a different charger. The normal HP Touchpad USB charger is more powerful than many. If you try a regular charger, the Touchpad may complain that it's not getting enough juice.  What fixed it was to use the low USB current from a desktop PC. Within a minute it was getting a trickle of energy and it could then be weaned back to its regular charging current.

I found the solution at WebOSnation and I have to thank the guy who, fearing the worst, took his apart to trickle charge the battery. Realising this was a last resort, I read more to find the guy suggesting the low current charger. I've tried something similar with a charging problem on a phone and the battery was totally flat. I removed the battery, connected the terminals to a Universal phone battery charger (a few £ on ebay). An hour or so later the old phone battery had enough juice to cope with a normal charge. 

A proper science explanation for this is welcome.

HP touchpad was bought for the ridiculously low price of £89 when HP's sold off the stock when after 6 weeks trading they realised that this was not going well. A year later (August 2012) it is able to dual-boot between Android ICS and WebOS. Android has the edge with tons of useful apps. To do the upgrade to Android see the help at liliputing.com. It is only a bit scary.