This will be my only work related entry and it’s more of a technical entry than work related.  I was reading an article previewing the new Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 today.  Good news – Microsoft has finally listened to the people and installed a pop up blocker in their Internet Explorer!  No more customer’s with complaints about pop ups.  Or at least I hope so.  Another thing that was in the article that I found interesting – “Data from Microsoft's highly successful Windows Error Reporting tool shows that browser add-ons are a major source of instability and reliability for IE. In SP2, this tool is used to examine IE crashes: If a non-system component causes a crash, you'll hear about it and can use this information--and the frequency of the crashes, I suppose--to determine whether that add-on needs to be disabled or uninstalled.”  Maybe this is the cause of the mysterious MSN Internal Errors – browser add ons such as toolbars?  Don’t you think though that MSN would have already thought of this?  Maybe the introduction of the MSN toolbar wasn’t such a good thing…  I notice when you go to install MSN Messenger 6.2 it defaults to installing the MSN toolbar.  You have to actually uncheck it to not have it install.  But I have to say that pretty well everyone I have seen has some kind of toolbar…  Anyway, food for thought….
 
Speaking of Microsoft, if you use Media Player 9, have you ever noticed how much your CPU usage is when it’s running?  I have been monitoring mine as it’s playing while I type this and it seldom goes under 80%.  Does anyone have a player that they use that uses far less?  I would be happy to change, WMP is what I have always used, simply because I like it but I never realized how much it really does use of my resources.  I know Jo and Rach have always used Winamp or something else but I just thought they didn’t like the interface….
 
Anyway, that's it for now.  I will probably add more later, less technical though....
 
Bye kids...