The wireless mouse worked really well on the home pc using WindowsXP – I’m not as impressed with it on the office pc, using Windows 2000 on a wood grain effect wooden desk. The mouse constantly jitters around all the time – I guess the grain is effecting the mouse. I don’t think I have the shakes! Put the mouse on a mousemat, and it works really well though – but I thought the point of an optical mouse was that you didn’t need a mousemat!

7 months after my birthday and it looks like I might actually get to have my birthday present. For the long term readers of this website I am hoping to go flying. Spoke to the pilot today to try and book some time in the near future. Can’t wait!

Norton AntiVirus has decided to uninstall itself on my home pc without telling me – hope thats not a virus doing it!

Is it just me or does everyone have a messy (aka busy) desk? As I have a laptop and a desktop computer, a headset for the phone and am invariably working on someone elses laptop, the number of cables that are running across the desk make life a nightmare – just where can you put a cup of coffee without running the risk of spilling it over something? Decided that enough was enough today, and I asked for a cordless, optical mouse that is rechargeable and does not need a mousemat. Suprisingly they said yes, so I went and got one from Currys tonight. They reckon that the mouse is half price at thirtyfive quid – but who in their right mind would pay 70 pounds for a mouse??? I’ll probably give it a trial run on the pc at home over the weekend and report back on it over the weekend.

Matadors mail filtering program looks good – though you must be using outlook which is annoying as I don’t at home anymore 🙁 It uses white/black lists, content filtering and challenge responses to ensure you don’t get spam..

Encryption may not be safe afterall (if you have 5 years and hundreds of computers working together that is). A 64bit encrypted message has finaly been cracked

Catch-Up (the useful service that I could never remember to run) has been suspended by C-Net. No suprise there as its yet another free thing on the internet gone away 🙁
Shame really as it was quite a good service, checking to see if there was any updated software on your pc. I also used it to audit all our computers in the office once, running a scan and then printing the list off.

Happy Birthday Kelly!!!!
Not sure if you have ginger hair but I used to so the picture is almost right 🙂Image thanks to DesignedToAT

O’Reilly have an interesting (read geeky) page for writing your own RSS feed. I reckon I could write asp to do that and then RSS various sections of the site – such as the blogroll or even my comments…..just need some spare time alone to sit down and play

And another thing – why does my screen in WindowsME turn off when it should, but it doesn’t in 98? And before you get worried I am only running ME to backup 3.5GB onto cd, spanning across multiple disks (slowly!). I didn’t have enough space in my 98 partition to be able to do the burning. I’m using Handy Backup to do the work. I guess I’ll need to put the software on floppy so that I can do a restore at a later date. I’ll let you know how I get on – I’m on disk 3 at the moment.