Q: What’s the definition of an opportunist company? A: One that decides to take on Microsoft at their own game. Two such foolhardy (brave? prescient?) beasts are based at Lindows.com and Windux. Will they be able to attract hordes of users fed up with the high cost of WIndows XP and product activation? Hmmm, don’t hold your breath.

Well I really liked the Lord of the Rings. It was majestic and obviously done with a lot of feeling. Hope that the sequels are as good.

If you don’t use Trillian yet, you should do. It’s a very neat IM – i.e. messaging – product which lets you talk to AOL, MSN, ICQ and even IRC buddies – all from the one interface. The new version fixes a few problems, and updates the look. It’s nice and it’s free.