I’ve just discovered the Newsgator plugin for XP Media Center Edition! It’s great and works fine through the 360 as an extender, I highly recommend you download it now.

Google’s ne Toolbar for Internet Explorer is out. It’s called T4 and available here.

It has lot’s of nice new features, and the API for it has been updated as well, my personal favorite feature is the gmail button

It says the IE7 version is coming soon, however I am running it fine with IE7 and cannot see any issues.

I came across some of the recently released VMWare Free Virtual Machine pre built ‘drives’ recently. One of the most interesting was a binary compatible WindowsXP clone called ReactOS.

Some other pre built OS’s worth looking at are

• IPCop - Linux firewall
• Squid - Linux proxy / reverse proxy server
• Fedora Core Test 5 - Linux distro

There are many others at the VMWare page listed above.

Dan mentioned to me that my blog feed had somehow switched over to showing my comments instead, you will be pleased to know that is now fixed, and normal services should resume.

Dan has put me onto Editor Monkey for WordPress. It is a thing of joy, as I can now (easily) get FCKEditor back as my main edit interface.

If you are running WordPress 1.5x or higher I highly recommend you give it a go.

So we are back in good old blighty, and now the fun begins. I forgot how much TV I watch in a week!

Sky+ has hardly any space on it (and it’s a 250Gb drive!) and I have my American shows to watch as well!

I’ve got all of the ‘new’ shows downloading (24 S5E7/8, Lost S2E13, Early S1E16, BSG S2E16 and Episode 4 of 11th hour). That plus the Sky+ stuff (SG1, Atlantis, and others).

Oh well it’s valentines day (and I have not had chance to get the wife anything), so have fun……. And happy Valentines day to my better half

McLarens new colour scheme is a clever one, the team have spent time and rescources coming up with a way to make the car shine. This is done using a new surface coating.

Piccies to follow

Toyota’s new aero package that will be used in the season opener has been shown off (have a look at ITV’s website). There seem to be a fair few changes.

Here’s a piccie to have a look at.

Also Gerhard Berger has officialy anounced that he has purchased a 50% share in the Red Bull owned (until now) ex Minardi team Scuderia Toro Rosso. With a little luck he will bring some of his expertise to the team.

Microsoft have released an update to MS AntiSpyware Beta1, The new software is called Microsoft Windows Defender Beta2? and replaces the currently re branded Giant AntiSpyware package that Microsoft have been distributing.

We popped into Luxor today to see the mummies in the museum.

Some of the work in the antiques that are preserved there is incredible, to think they where doing that level of craftmanship over 5000 years ago is amazing.

The one thing that I cannot get over though is how tiny the mummies are, most are around the 5 foot mark!

To think that a race that small could build some of the historic buildings and architecture is trully awe inspiring.