My Vodafone 3G modem arrived today. This worked properly one one of my laptops, but did not work at all on my main Dell laptop. I eventually rang Vodafone support, and they got me to uninstall the driver, and then download the new software from the Vodafone WWW site. This made it work. Unfortunately I only have GPRS here, and not 3G so I will have to try this out in the next few days in a 3G area. The coverage area is available here

I have a photo of the unit connected to my laptop with the external antenna connected, but I cannot find the cable to download the photos from my camera. I will probably pick up a new cable tomorrow as the one I have is a bit old, and does not read many of the new types of cards. So the photo will follow…

The News.Com.Au Web site contains a story about the Centre of Australia. They describe the four or five different places that might be the centre of Australa – Ayeres Rock, Johnston Station which is the surveying centre of Australia, the point furthest from all the oceans, and the gravity centre of the country. I would love to visit each of them – it might make an interesting trip I think.

Lastly, a company in the USA has promised to break the iTunes encryption system so that they can license it to other companies who want to sell music for the iPod. This is an interesting stratergy which I suspect will turn up in court eventually. We will see.