I lost control of my Vista wireless mouse USB adapter the other day. It just didn’t move the pointer.

Rebooted, still no mouse use. Later on I rebooted again with just the USB wireless adapter plugged in and this time Vista popped up a ReadyBoost message asking me whether I wanted to use the USB flash drive as extra memory. Go figure.

Had a look at the Parental Control activity reports and for one of  the users, a site - www.bebo.com - appeared in both the ‘Top 10 Web Sites Visited’ summary group, which sounds like sites that were visited having passed the Parental Control check, and also appeared in the ‘Most Recent 10 Websites Blocked’ summary group. Hmmm… that doesn’t make sense.

Also for the same user the site, which was some kind of file download - file023.bebo.com - appeared in both summary groups. Go figure 2.

Today we went to a great fish restaurant in Malibu called Gladstones, recommended.

Quote of the day

‘We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like’ Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

Downloaded OneCare from the Microsoft site, inadvertently clicked on a wrong link and all of a sudden I’m on a ‘we want money’ page for the full version of OneCare.

£37.99 per year for three PC’s. Hmmm… that doesn’t work out so bad, so signed up. There was no activation code or serial number, it was just tied to your Microsoft passport address, which in my case is a hotmail address. This makes sense from Microsoft’s point of view as there are no activation codes for them to monitor.

It was also easy for me as when I downloaded OneCare onto the other two PC’s I clicked on the activation link, or whatever it was called, and was prompted to enter my passport address. At which point Microsoft obviously check that the address is valid, that I have purchased OneCare and that it hasn’t been installed on more than three PC’s. Anyway it worked.

Of course the slight weakness here is that if you know someone who has purchased OneCare and has less than three computers, that if you can guess their Hotmail address, and lets face it most people try and get their normal name as an email address, then you can download the trial version and activate it with their passport address knowing that they have registered less than three computers against it. Naughty.

Quote of the day

‘A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping’ Kenneth Tynan (1927-1980)