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CNET:

"The Blu-ray Disc Association, the standards body for the format, has decided it will adopt Java for the interactivity standards," said Yasushi Nishimura, director of Panasonic's Research and Development Company of America, speaking at Sun's JavaOne trade show here. "This means that all Blu-ray Disc player devices will be shipped equipped with Java."

Oh dear.

30 second boot time.
Dropped frames from Java using too much resources.
Higher costs to deal with Java's huge memory needs.
Pop-up ads during the film.
Spyware and adware being installed.

This really gives content producers no limits to how much they can now abuse the consumer. They'll abuse it, don't think they won't! We had some companies sticking trailers in the copyright section of a DVD to stop people from skipping it. They're going to be able to control everything now.

No thanks. You've just removed any advantages Blu-ray had over HD-DVD in storage, it's going to be filled up with Java malware.

Best album of the year so far. Coldplay just seem to improve on each album with such ease.

Well I thought it was time for a new mouse. Well in truth I buggered my old IntelliMouse Explorer 1.1 up, by trying to get some dirt out of the lens with a screw driver (it was all I had to hand at the time) which crippled it, it become very picky over what surfaces it worked well on (the top-right corner of my mouse pad basically). Note to self, don't jam screw drivers or hard objects onto the lens of optical mice.

I picked up a IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0A (wired) for £15 which was a great price.

Wow what an improvement, it's really come along way from the early models. The tilt wheel is a bit strange (but I guess we said that when Microsoft added the scroll wheel to mice). The middle mouse button is much harder to use with the tilting wheel, this is partially due to how I hold the mouse, it needs to be clicked sort of backwards towards the mouse, I tend to hold the mouse with my hand much further back, making the angle a bit harder to reach (it's still usable it just needs a bit of force). I've redefined the middle mouse to one of the side buttons - I never used them anyway on any mouse. Build quality is great, very solid feeling mouse. After upping the PS/2 sample rate to 200hz it's so smooth. Not to mention it's very smooth when moving over my mouse pad, it really seems to hover above it some how.

Fantastic mouse and if you can pick one up for £15 do it.

Well it's about time, being stuck on the old original ADSL product myself like so many other early adopters and trialists, we had no upgrade path to higher speeds, without a couple of weeks of downtime. Yes we love the good old engineer install.

Well all that changed a few hours ago when Demon announced they were going to move everybody up to 2Mbps or whatever their phone line supported. Although it's primarily a BT thing it's nice that Demon have finally announced it (most ISPs did months ago).

All the exchanges should be upgraded by September.

Wow the legendary Microsoft Bob now is mine! What some people believed only to be a myth is now mine! Thanks Catherine, she found what some people search their whole lives for and gave it to me! Wow!