Not following me?

When I visit my own site which logs every page load (including by web bots), I do not see anybody following me around (i.e. the pages are not revisited by anyone afterwards).

Maybe it's just certain sites they check, or only ones they have not previously looked at?

For reference, unfortunately got lumbered with a talk talk contract when I moved house, only a few months to go before I can ditch them forever - have had nothing but problems with them.

You get data as well?

My 3GS struggles to keep a phone connection let alone a data connection. O2 coverage near where I live is not good at all.

@Michael Fremlins

You think KDE is bad, you should try Vista ;-)

Replacement cycle?

Surely the replacement cycle of a PC depends on what it's used for.

Those people who only need to type very quick letters are probably fine with wordwise plus on a BBC, and if they do it all the time then you could probably boot from ROM and type your letter in the time that windows would take to boot and load Word.

Those people developing stuff or those that need large amounts of storage/RAM would probably want to update slightly more often.

It's blatantly a way of encouraging people to get Windows 7, oh and you'll need to buy new processors from us to do it.

IE8 can set itself as default browser

"IE will never install, or become the default browser without your explicit consent. However, we heard a lot of feedback from a lot of different people and groups and decided to make the user choice of the default browser even more explicit. This change is part of our ongoing commitment to user choice and control.”

So why then, when I installed IE8 through windows automatic updates last night, did Firefox then complain it was no longer the default browser?!

@Dave 31 and Graham Marsden

Or later Acorns for that matter, from the Archimedes to the RISC PC which may now appear dated but ran a full multi tasking operating system that booted as good as instantly.

SD Cards?

@BigYin

I suspect TomTom uses SD cards (or a variant of) which are normally FAT formatted. For convenience of loading maps/music/etc easily it makes sense for them to want to read and write using FAT including long filenames.

See what they come up with

1.8 million people may sound a lot but the UK population is an estimated 60 million, assuming half of these can drive that means only 6% of motorists objected to the scheme (and therefore 94% did not object but aren't kicking up a huge stink about it).

I'll be the first to admit I'm a sit on the fence kind of person and I'm happy to wait and see what they come up with before objecting. I can't imagine the different parties will all come up with the same solution and so a general election will soon sort it if they get it wrong (anybody remember the poll tax?).

I probably do 3000 miles a year which makes my road tax extremely expensive per mile compared to somebody who pays the same but does 10x that amount. Assuming they propose to take the same overall revenue that they would take from road tax then I'll be all up for it, it means the people that drive a lot will pay more than those that drive very few miles, that sounds completely fair to me. Compared to the tax on fuel it's not really a significant amount to those that do a lot of miles anyway.

It will take more than a single scaremongering email with no proof of factual information to make me sign a petition...