The Windows XP QoS problem may not be quite as serious as The Register implied, it may only be an issue with Windows XP Professional rather than the Home Edition. That's what I get for taking technical articles on The Register at face value - the article explaining the actual technicalities can be found here, earlier this said the issue only applied to Professional but now that reference has been removed - I don't actually have XP Home or Professional so I can't confirm either way.

If you're running Windows XP you might want to check this. Out of the box, Windows XP reserves twenty percent of your network bandwidth that is probably wasted if you're running a home machine. It's due to careless default QoS settings. More information at this Register article here.

[Flash games] - hmm, grab the banana, eat it, woah, bomb, duck - No! AIEEE! - Three monkeys.

On a completely unrelated note (other than it was from this site I got the above link), is Joel on Software's 12 Steps to Better Code. Its old, I may have even posted it before at some point in the past, but it is still valid and absolutely spot on.

What really happens after a game of Pong.

I was recounting this funny little story today, and had to dig up a URL as evidence: the origin of the phrase "to steal one's thunder."

GNU utilities natively compiled for Win32.

I've looked at this site briefly, but it seems quite good - see guitar lessons for idiots.

Whoops - just discovered much of my bebabo-bound email was automatically being deleted by over-zealous junk mail filters. So if you've sent anything to this address and never received an answer, please resend.

Alternative Monopoly take a chance and community chest cards.

A rash of entries:

How to crack ATM machines, I have the same CD-R quality review logged in the archives, but the URL had since died - I have tendencies to use this site as a big set of bookmarks. Finally, here's a review of a groovy PC cube, and a portable N64 project.

And the reason for these delayed additions: Civilization 3