Whatever am I to do? Windows 2000 is entering ‘extended support’ which means that I won’t be able to install IE7 on it. I must run out and buy Windows XP right now - Bill Gates needs my money to feed his starving family.

Or I could continue using Firefox and work at getting World of Warcraft to run under Ubuntu Linux.

It occurred to me today that the ISP I work for could benefit from an additional source of income, so here’s my idea:

• Record what the tech says when the Mute button is pressed on their handset
• Send all the abuse directed at the customer to a computer feeding a pay-per-minute phone line
• Collect money from all the other customers who call the line to piss themselves laughing at the tech’s frustrations

I just went to the supermarket near work to buy a tomato (I need more food, dammit!), and I noticed something that will make the Crumpet very happy. They’ve installed a bunch of extra freezers, which has allowed them to dedicate an entire compartment to…

Call me fat, eh? Try saying that after a month of gobbling the Tofutti goodness!

A nice logo to print on the back of your new indie CD release. Fight the power, maaaaan.

Crumpet insinuated that I was a fat bastard this morning (”What are you going to do about that tummy?”), so I guess it’s ‘get-in-shape’ time. Any suggestions on how a lazy geek could do that?

A rather large collection of links to music that’s rare, out of print, what have you. The record companies aren’t serving music lovers anymore, so they’re taking matters into their own hands.

Apple brought out their new iMac revision about a week ago.

Specs on the 20″ iMac are: 2 Ghz G5 processor, 512Mb RAM, Radeon 9600 GPU with 128Mb VRAM, 250Mb HD, gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth 2 and 802.11g wireless. For the life of me I can’t see why I need a PowerMac for recording. I’ll have a word to Crumpet about it and see if she can see a downside… but right now I’m thinking this is a much better (and cheaper) solution for me than buying a firebreathing dual-G5 PowerMac just to prove how enormous my genitals are.

And of course, if my genitals are considered subpar by a panel of unbiased judges, I can sell the iMac for a decent amount secondhand due to the excellent resale value on Mac hardware…

One good thing about working for a small ISP is that you don’t have your own network. In this case, I’m on Telstra’s VISP (Virtual Internet Service Provider) network. I’m on a 1.5Mbps 10Gb/month plan, but nothing is done to actually restrict your bandwidth once you hit the cap. And here’s a picture:

The most depressing thing about Nescafé Blend 43 is the implication that Nestlé made 42 worse blends before settling on this crap.

I need good coffee.

This is a site where people send in postcards with secrets about themselves. Some are funny, some are horribly sad.