I slept well last night – I went to bed about 10:30 and did not wake up until a touch after 7AM. Basically I am well rested, and ready for a great day in the wide world. I am sure that something will bring me crashing down to earth, but we will see.

In the USA, it seems that the US Government has finally decided it has paid for most of one of their wars, and can now remove the tax used to pay for it. This tax was 3% on long distance phone charges… So, what war was it? The Iraq? No! Vietnam? Nah. Korea? Not even close! And not even World War II or I! It was actually the Spanish-American war which finished 108 years ago.

PC World has an article on the 25 worst IT products of all time. This list contains some classics, such as Windows ME, IBM PCjr, AOL, The Disney LionKing CD-ROM and a heap of others. It really is a wall of shame. Microsoft only had a few products in the list – apple I think had more. Strange.

In the SMH, there is a story about how a 19 year old working in the UK Government has been found with Bomb Making Materials. What is more interesting is other revelations in the article, like how illegal immigrants were working in the imigration department of the Home Office.