Love most certainly wasn’t blind for a man who was so obsessed with tech websites that he ordered custom-made window shutters and then watched his wife walk out of the door. Curtain and blinds website, Nets2Go.co.uk recounts the heart-rending story of customer Mr Schofield, who rang the company with specific requirements for wooden blinds, each printed with a different web-related logo.

Mr Schofield chose the logos of news aggregator Digg.com, Facebook, YouTube and Firefox, among others, all of which were faithfully printed as requested. Mr Schofield was apparently delighted with the blinds – but his happiness was regrettably short lived after his wife took umbrage to his taste in interior decor.

“It was coming anyway,” Mr Schofield told Nets2Go, putting a commendably brave face on. “My design choice for the blinds was pretty much the nail in the coffin.”

“She doesn’t understand the intense geek in me. And anyway, the only one she’d even heard of was YouTube”.