This week's messages..

In addition to Triple M and KO-FM this week, I appeared on A Current Affair this evening commenting on a story relating to the privacy of captured digital images. Someone had loaded up an embarassing video of an ex girlfriend to YouTube and she was devastated, reporting him to the show. My view: if you don't want it on YouTube, don't let it be filmed!

And, as always - parents.. why don't you know what your kids are doing in their rooms each evening? Surely any responsible parent would supervise a teenager and check what they're loading up to YouTube?

Also did a segment on ABC Local Radio QLD, talking about the dreaded email Chain Letters again (see link below) and taking lots of tech-support calls from listeners. Felt like the old days at Microsoft!

March 8 is International Women's Day. Hooray for us! I'm speaking at an IBM function where staff have been invited to bring their daughters to hear me chat about the wonderful world of IT, in an effort to encourage more women into it. And just to prove the point that we really do 'have it all', before the talk I'll be dropping off kids to school, dropping off overdue library books, doing canteen duty for half a day, meeting with a magazine editor about a new column (stay tuned). Phew!

Radio interviews today

Appeared with John, Jane and Cosi this morning on TripleM Adelaide at 6:50am chatting about Viruses, then the sister station in Newcastle, KO-FM chatting about Chain letters. Click the links for the fact sheets! Did you listen? What would you like to hear about in the future?

Update on the Windows Vista experience

Loves

• Slick look
• Sidebars
• Photo gallery - love this the most. especially the ability to tag photos
• New Media Centre look
• Quick load
• Instant Search
• Parental controls.. although this would be in my 13yr old's Hate list!

Hates

• Cannot run Dreamweaver so I have lost my favourite website editing tool
• Cannot recover my files from the backup I did before I wiped my PC clean and started again in order to have the best 'vista' experience
• My graphics card inside the PC is not up to scratch enough to access to new flip 3d feature and a few other things

Take the tours and check it out for yourself... it seems to me that the word on the street is that people are upgrading to Office 2007 on Windows XP and they're saving the Vista upgrade for later. Sounds like great foresight to me!

Having fun with the new Walkman phone

Loving the brand new Sony Ericsson W880i (click 'try the phone'). I've got my plastic ruler out and the phone truly is only 1cm in thickness.. can you believe it? It's light as a feather. But that's not what I like the best - the screen navigation is amazing to watch - slick as a computer game!

The buttons are a bit tiny and I find myself having to press them with a fingernail, but most of what I want is able to be programmed to shortcut keys.

I can load photos to it (it's got its own 2megapixel camera on board, mind you!) and I'm supposed to be able to put my MP3 files onto it but I'm having trouble getting the Disc2Phone software working under Windows Vista. (thats not the only problem with Vista.. I can't use Dreamweaver either which is killing me).

Once I work out a way to get digital music to the phone I'll be satisfied with the whole package. I am right on the verge of buying an MP3 player but cant decide which one. This phone will do it all and I won't need to take that extra step and add another gadget to the toolbelt! It can apparently store up to 900 tracks!? Not only that, there's access to PlayNow - quick access to new ringtones... love that!

It does come loaded with some lame sample tracks, so I've tried out the sound through the standard headphones and it is fantastic.. although I'm not mad keen on the earpieces.. they are not comfortable for me.

I'm about to try the phone some brand new video on demand content and will keep you updated.