on msnbc or just grow a beard as its easier 🙂
I think I was misquoted in this article about server patching although we might have just gone through a load of security patches the previous week!
MS have a partner pack which includes a couple of games, a link to a photo publishing site (photosite.com, a subscription to etrust, the google deskbar, onfolio, post it notes and a usb flash drive manager and more. Looks like its worth the download (enhanced capabilities for xp but can also be used on w2k)
“It’s 6am, its chucking it down with rain – lets watch a movie” This was Kristen’s opening quote when she came downstairs (after the “what are you doing up?”) this morning. I woke up about 5am, couldn’t get back to sleep so got up and started reading my rss feeds – something I’ve not done for a couple of days so have loads to catch up on. Kristen woke up at 5.45 by the birdies singing in the window and is seriously thinking about training Winston to catch them 🙂
So we’re now watching The Pink panther Strikes Again.
you can actually ring tv licencing on a freephone number, 0800 3282020 which isn’t advertised on their website. Useful when cancelling the licence as why pay yet more money on a national rate (0870 241 6468) phone call when you can do it for free.
We went around a friends house last night as the first of our leaving do’s and after some delicious pizza (but no hanky panky this time) we played a game of rapidough where you have to mould things out of dough to get the other team members to guess the word on the card. Thankfully you are able to use the clay with actions, so a plane may be modelled and then waved around the room in a flying motion. Anyway, about half way into the game, I had the word salt. Thinking quickly I started to pinch small bits of plasticine off the lump and throw them over my shoulder. Kristen was horrified as the aim of the game is to keep as much plasticine as possible (and remove it from the opponents team) and here I was, throwing the remains of an ever decreasing lump of plasticine down the back of the settee! Thankfully it didn’t stun her too much and she managed to guess correctly with her first word after three throws. Much hilarity ensued as she complained about me reducing the dough – my protestations of “it was an attempt to ensure you guessed correctly quickly” were ignored and I was banished to find the pieces of plasticine (which I did much to the hosts relief)………….I think I got away with the fact that I was throwing the salt over my right shoulder when you are meant to throw it over your left 🙂
VxUtil is a free (for personal use) suite of network utilities for a pocket pc that will give you dns lookups, ping sweeps etc and the all important ipconfig of your pocketpc. Downloaded it this morning and it works great. If I had had it installed last night I *might* have found it handy!
I switched on the wireless card in the pocketpc last night as I drove into town to get our indian meal. I was surprised to see 4 access points active in the town (at 7.30pm on a Friday night there is unlikely to be a business need for wireless access) active. Surprised because when I last did this about a year ago there were NO access points in Congleton at all.
Needless to say 3 of them were using out of the box settings, but 1 of them did have WEP encryption set. The other 3 had the default ssids of linksys,belkin54g set.