- My Nabaztag/tag is not the only one that developed a floppy ear syndrome. It is now more and more likely that my wi-fi bunny will go back to the burrow whence it came, and it is very sad to see an innovative idea that is developed with style but not very much substance to sustain it.
- Iceland shall not host the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, purely on grounds of the chances of the rock ballad they selected a couple of hours ago to represent the country this year winning in Helsinki in may being next to none. Well, the only entry I liked (a bit) in tonight's Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Icelandic national final was Þú Tryllir Mig, a carbon copy of Páll Óskar's performance in the 1997 ESC contest: club track, sung sitting down surrounded by dancers, mentions kampavín (=champagne).
- Outlook 2002 runs on Vista, but email account passwords are not saved after you close the application. Microsoft is not planning any hotfixes, as Outlook 2002 is not supported any more. It's either a forced update to Outlook 2007 (I would, if the update was more than just a lick of paint), or going against my productivity rules (launch Outlook only once every half hour, deal with email, close it) and leaving Outlook on all the time.
- Jeyo Mobile Extender (extension that I use to sync my your mobile with Outlook) released version 2.5 to work with Windows Vista, but it does not work with outlook 2002 (see above). I guess I'm back to patiently hand-copying all of Dr B.'s text messages (I keep them all and preserve them to show the grandchildren one day).
- Camcorder piracy is not the huge threat to the cinema industry that they obviously want us to believe.
- Lookout (indexing search for Outlook) is not available any more, and all links to the Lookout website go to the Windows Desktop Home Page, which sort of makes sense as the new indexing search that comes with Windows Vista works very well in sniffing out email content as well. I just wish I could access it quickly from within Outlook itself.
- The mobile version of Google maps works really well and gives me one more reason to believe my mobile data connection rocks. If only I had known the other night, when I went to see a friend who leaves nearby (turn right, then second right) and got lost (turned right, then first right, found myself in middle of dodgy estate).
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Sunday 18 February 2007 at 11:36 am
I know, Iceland, what were you thinking? To be fair, there's a tune there and an insistent rhythm and some good guitar playing, but what a grizzler! I think the country has had an extreme reaction to the glamour of Silvia Nott and decided to go for the opposite extreme! It's such a shame, because I want Iceland to win sometime, as an excuse for me to go there, but with this, they won't even be in the final. :-(
Now, can we talk about the shock of Magnus Carlsson in Sweden?(!)