Taken from BBC News, an article with beautiful pictures showing Mount Etna blowing smoke rings.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

This will be of use, should I ever get around to attempting any of my long list of pet projects (automatic competition submitter) - a list of online competitions.

I have decided to switch back to Netscape for the meanwhile, there are just too many sites at the moment that Opera has problems with - including Dilbert, where I guess its balking at the cursor being changed. Outer Technologies provide a shareware bookmark manager that allows painless importing and exporting from IE, Netscape and Opera, so I can merge in my bookmark changes during my spell with Opera.

The Register goes off on one.

I got pointed at Gibson Research Corporation who produce OptOut software which removes Aureate's 'spyware'. A host of people have found this to solve problems similar to those I was experiencing with IE, so I gave it a shot and it seemed to work.

I was discussing this Journal of Personality and Social Psychology report the other day, and whether this will lead to a significant backlash against computer games in general - the report is covered here on Wired.

Woo hoo - Monkey Island 4 officially announced.

The Register in acerbic form.