Ah yes, the joy of running WatchCat in the hope of being able to identify and kill the process that was locking up WPS.

You might want to check out the book Snake Wrangling for Kids

This. For a living I do support and spend most of my time speaking to people who really shouldn't have been granted admin privileges on anything more complicated than an etch-a-sketch.

This trend seems to be on the increase as more and more customers outsource their in-house development/admin/support to cheaper outsourced less skilled labour.

Same here, my 15" MBP with nvidia hasn't crashed on me since installing Lion... maybe I'd better reboot it every 5-10 minutes just so I get the correct user experience ;-)

... where most of the Supermarkets have had a home delivery service where you can order online for years.

I've used Tescos before and it works pretty well although I'm picky enough about fresh produce and meat that I'd rather visit the store for that.

For stocking up on tins, packets, cleaning products etc it was great when I didn't have a car but I tend to use it less now I can drive myself out to the store.

Was originally available for the BBC Micro and could be plugged into the Archimedes if you had the user port podule installed.

Concept Keyboard A3

Happy days, almost wants me to get my A310 or RiscPC 600 out of the cupboard.

If Windows 7 ships without IE installed, how am I going to download Firefox?

The reason Paintbrush is the best application they've ever written is because Microsoft didn't write it.

I've got installation media for Windows 2.03 kicking around somewhere which came with my first Microsoft mouse and it's actually ZSoft PC Paintbrush which was bundled with the mouse.

The mention of ZSoft was dropped in Windows 3.0 and apart from support for things like GIF and JPG now, the application has changed very little since Windows 2 (Well if it ain't broke...)