My MacBook's hard disk died recently; I'm kind of between computers, living something of a nomad life as I wait for Seagate to exchange my defective drive for a working one, so apologies for the dearth of posts here, and for delays in replies to email.

While we wait for normal service to be resumed...

My influence increases – a review I wrote for sister title PC Pro was licensed to an Australian PC magazine, and has appeared in print and on its website. I wasn't even aware of this till I had an email from the developers of the software reviewed noting the review.

Creative advertising: some lovely examples here [thanks, Nik], here and here.

Amusing* story: I phoned A Major Internet Service Provider the other day, and was told that it would be pointless to send them an email as their email system was down.

Finally, who doesn't love kitties doing cute things? [thanks, Nik]




* For a given value of 'amusing'.