Back on Sunday - with new posts and matrial. I've been updating my home systems to Office 2003 and doing some hardware updates - primarily tweaking XP pro on my two machines and adding a wireless keyboard and mouse to the Dell LANBOSS running my main work. The keyboard is quite nice and makes blogging a real pleasure. So now with some more time I should be able to update the blog a little more often.

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