I've been using open office on windows XP for a few weeks recently for a few routine tasks and so far haven't had any compatability problems with existing MS office documents. very encouraging.

The honeymoon period is over with my Treo 600 - i've found a bug in the calendar application - it keeps moving (or creating an instance of) a repeated event to a different day when I sync. This type of "random" bug makes it effectively useless as a diary as I now can't trust it, and know that I need to keep a second copy of stuff in paper format to be absolutely sure things are in the right place. I haven't got time to look into why it is happening, so back to the faithful old filofax.

A new motherboard including 1.4ghz processor donated by Ben at work means new life for the media PC I was planning to build a way back - coupled with various parts stripped from my collection of derelict PC's (some of which am now going to dump - hurrah!) it could be a half decent machine, especially if I can find someone to donate me a graphics card capable of the odd game or two.

The powerbook work are buying for me still hasn't arrived :-(