Up & running
My machine is fresh and shiny again, and I’m trying out OpenOffice.org rather than mess around with ye olde MS Office. I’ve also installed Visual C# 2005 Express and XNA Game Studio Express, and started messing around with the coolness of simple 2D and 3D game programming in managed C#, on my (now working) Radeon 9550.
I’m also using Thunderbird rather than Outlook, but it’s annoying me because it pops up an alert if there’s any unread mail, not when mail arrives like Outlook. Also there’s no way to minimize to the notification area. I just think that an email application should be like instant messaging, always on (unless you want to turn it off) but not obtrusive. I can have 15 windows open at a time just while working, I don’t want to have another tab on the bottom of the screen just on the off chance I get some blog spam. I should write my own email app (yeah right).