I did a simple prank a few years ago to a fellow worker. I stuck a small post-it note on the bottom of his mouse, so that the mouse ball wouldn't roll - I guess it could work with IR and laser mice. Took him 5 minutes to work out why his mouse wasn't responding.

I just bought a PSP-3000, I've been thinking of getting one for a while (especially with all the long-haul traveling I do - you can only watch the Dark Knight so many times on the plane). I couldn't see the value in the Go, smaller screen, can't replace battery, analog stick in difficult position. The thing that tipped me over the edge to get a PSP was Gran Turismo - the exact same reason I got the original PS way back :-)

Ok, so when is the EU going to step in and accuse MS of anti-competitive behaviour by crowding out the anti-virus software market?

Trackpads are a hit-or-miss affair for me. On my home Asus, it's pretty accurate and works great, on my work Dell, it sucks. The Dell trackpad is slow, inaccurate, just plain crap. I never use it, prefer the trackpoint (and you have to disable the trackpad because your palm interferes - that never happened with all the Thinkpads I've used) if I'm moving around the office and not using my VX Nano.

I think Ballmer is paying homage to MJ - by doing the Thriller dance.

Yeah, but on release day XBL will get bogged down with all the download requests. So I guess you get to only play the offline component for the first couple of weeks, until it all dies down - unless there's a new release that week.

MS - make sure you upgrade your servers, otherwise XBL is going to be a huge traffic jam. But I like this idea - just need to manage my puny 60b drive.

Or game developers can do this - make the games smaller for download.

@tony

Come on - is it that much of a pain in the ass to recharge your netbook once a day? Yes, 3 to 4 weeks of battery charge sounds nice, but is that really your tipping point? I mean, we're so connected these days and near power points all the time, you'd have to camping in the forest to make that argument (anyway, we should be looking into solar cells to trickle charge the batteries and extend battery life).

The netbook argument makes sense, but the Kindle makes the whole process of downloading newspapers a lot easier for mainstream (ie. non-tech) users, which I think is the key selling point here. But if you're sufficiently tech savvy and the newspapers allow you to download an entire newspaper to your netbook, it is a worthy substitute when you factor in the price. So right now the Kindle is a good option, but not necessarily a no-brainer.

Er, this has been the nature personal computer market for the last 30 years. Just take a punt and be happy that whatever you get meets your needs for the next 3 years. However, if you're not sure about these netbooks, chances are you don't need one.

Last month I flew halfway around the world to Brussels and the tourist shops had Obama t-shirts. WTF - nothing against the guy, but enough with the Obama branding. Or, Obama should get licensing royalties from these companies to fund the American debt.

Don't forget that HP owns EDS, so they have a systems integration, IT consulting and data centre outsourcing service to go with their server market. Dell also plays in the cutthroat server market as well but they don't have an outsourcing data centre, only partnerships with other companies. Whilst these markets are huge, they're also thin margins. Apple has the consumer market, which has fatter profits. Also, it seems that Apple is weathering the recession well, whereas HP and Dell are suffering from a drop in business spending, which is hitting their stock price.

Once business gets back into the market, HP should kill Dell with a all-in-one business service - this is why they bought EDS.