It must be time for people to do Christmas shopping. My house-mate has annoyed me by finished all of his before December. I always like to buy people an even because I always think that most people have all the possessions that they want. Tickets for events, concerts, theatre, health spas, activity days will always be well remembered.

My machine is under attack! Someone within my own ISP is trying to break into my apache webserver. They have been doing this for the last two weeks and don't seem to want to stop trying to exploit frontpage server extensions which I am not running. I will see if the e-mail to the abuse department works ...

Open source windows software. There is a good CD available here
I always think that the smallest utility that does the job is the one you want. I always go to download.com and choose the smallest by size.

Remove programs that are using your computer to track you using Ad-aware. This was referenced from Steve Gibsons superb site at www.grc.com. Make sure you use UnPlug'n'Pray to disable the UPnP service, DCOMbobulator and Shoot the messenger