24 hours cursing Microsoft

I have just spent 24 hours cursing Microsoft. How can anything be SO complicated and yet so stupid? The reason: reinstalling Windows on my PC as it was off to new pastures (I have replaced it with the MacBookPro, which is a just what I dreamed it would be). What with a swathe of viruses swooping in as the version of XP Pro (pro what, I am now asking myself) was pre service pack 1 (let alone 2) left it wide open for all of half an hour and the attack was astounding. Whatismore you can't even re-register your operating system from non-Explorer sites, which we all know, is an unsafe browser, as I found out. So that is it. No more Windows. EVER. Big ups to Eyre for sticking it out last night. Great to see you and Catherine. Next time I am sure it will be warmer. This winter is going to be a long one.

Weather bomb

While most peoples eyes are glued to the World Cup while they sip on an icy beverage in shorts and t's, we, here in little NZ, are freezing out tits off. We have had a couple of 'weather bombs' head our way producing the most snow in 25 years (and this isn't really winter) and they say next week is "going to be shit". If you live in the northern hemisphere and need cooling off have a look at this. Some places have been without power for 5 days now. Not the big smoke of Chch though. Good news for the skifields; Mt Hutt and Mt Dobson are open for action (assuming they can open the access roads that is). For now all the news is football and weather, if you don't get used to it you never will.