[Q] bricked N7000. how to get working again

I tried upgrading my international N7000 to CM10.3 following the instructions in

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_n7000

but now the phone won't even boot into the recovery, all it shows is

Samsung
GALAXY Note
GT-N7000
/ \
/ | \
/--*-\

When i tried flashin from my Mac iusing Heimdall,
the download finished on the mac, but on the N7000
it still showed the blue line etc. I waited a lng time and tried
rebooting, but got the above.

Re-flashing in Heimdall had no effect.

I then tried flashing
hardcore-speedmod-ics-recovery-n7000.tar
using Odin 3.185 from my VMwars Fusion XP install,
and that seemed to finish ok, but no luck either.


I looked for the latest CWM 6.0.4.3 recovery, but I cannot find any
odin-flashable format for it, and of course I cannot use the sdcard
as I cannot even boot into any recovery as is.

Can anyone suggest next steps?