At the height of the suffragette movement in the early part of the 1900s, a campaign of civil disobedience began with women chaining themselves to railings, smashing windows and committing arson.
In an unscientific straw poll at the Martyrs' Memorial this week, students, tourists and even an Oxford don chaining up her bicycle (sturdy frame, wicker basket) could not say what it commemorated.
Indeed, the prospect of Core i3 owners chaining themselves to HDD cages in defense of their upgrade rights may yet come to pass, and no one would want to be on the wrong side of that.