As we all know, when you download freeware it usually comes with added nasties. I have installed Ad-aware 6.1 from Lavasoft – recommended by yours truly for removing unpleasant spyware from your treasured ‘puter. Best of all, it’s free (and doesn’t come with spyware)!

Thought I had a googlewhack but it turns out that it only counts if you use two words.

I’m using Bearshare which is part of the gnutella network . I’ve downloaded some Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Split Enz and, hallelujah, gospel. It’s cool, and as much as MP3 is a crappy format, it’s a great way to get a taste of the music – I’ll be following this up by…

A New Zealander looking for local news? Please don’t go to nzoom, the self titled ‘homepage’ for New Zealanders. I usually use stuff.co.nz as my news source. It is run by a newspaper company, and while it looks a little bland, it is well coded and has good selection of news highlights. The other day…

Holy crap – just read at Ben Poole’s site that Mozilla have changed the name of Pheonix/Firebird to Firefox…. How about calling it er, um, I can’t decide.

First time I’ve opened my laptop in what seems like weeks… Odd. I’ve been watching a lot of movies, working, generally in hibernation mode. It’s a good time to hibernate as it snowed here last week. Just watched ‘Amelie’ – what a freaking awesome film! Highly recommended. Feel-good city without the mush or sentimentality. Last…