PC Magazine have just released a review of the new version of Microsoft Office. This is only a review of the beta, but still, it gives an idea of what microsoft is doing. From what I can work out user interface changes are what is mostly happening. But there are also good features like fast seaching in Outlook. ABout time.

The SMH has a list of the Top five ‘the PC is not being PC or how I stopped worrying and let the evil computer take over’ films. Included are Electric Dreams and 2001:A Space Odyssey. Hack-A-Day has a story on recovering data from a Dead Laptop HDD

Being single, I hope the answer to the next question is YES. Anyway, the LA-Times has a review of a book called ‘Are Men Necessary?’. You just have to have a look at the review, particularly at the journalists new vocabulary to make her more appealing to guys…

On a mailing list I belong to, one of the members posted a question. He wanted a list of the phone prefixes in use, and the suburbs they covered. This used to be in the back of the telephone books. All his investigations inside a certain carrier tended to suggest that this was now commercially sensitive information, and it had to be protected even internally. Would you believe that all this information is actually on the Telstra Web Site as part of the SFOA (Standard Form Of Agreement) that we agree to when we sign up for a Telstra service. I found that I did not know of a number of the prefixes used in the suburb that I live in… Stange..