News of the day… Microsoft have decided to add Blogging support in Word 2007. No. Actually that is not the news… The news is that the HTML that it produces is actually fairly good, and clean. It will be able to send blog posts direct to an FTP site… Wow.
News.Com.AU has an expose on Travel Insurance… And even goes on to note that a manager of a travel insurance company from Australia just got caught in Europe not being covered for an injection when he got sick. Now, why doesnt this surprise me.
On some ISP related news, WestNet have provided their usage meter online as a web service. You can now point your own software to https://secure1.wn.com.au/webservices/customer/ADSLUsage/adslxmlusage.asmx and it will provide you with the current months usage once you provide a username and password.
I have written a small program that sits in the system tray and updates the downloads every five minutes (even though the WebService only updates its numbers every 15 minutes) and then just provides a status tooltip on the usage…