Well it is Thursday morning and my laptop eventually turned up yesterday afternoon after so confusion between the company suppling it and the courier company. They should have delivered it Monday, but for some reason the company suppling it didn’t dispatch, so I arranged for it to be delivered on Wednesday. However I got home on Tuesday to find a card on the floor from the courier company saying they tried to deliver a parcel, but no one was in. A quick phone call later and it was arranged for them to deliver it on Wendesday as planned.

I got my hands on the laptop top just gone 3pm yesterday, I connected it up and switched it on and then say there for an hour waiting for Windows Vista to install. Once that was complete I then spent another hour waiting for some recovery disks to be created, should I ever feel the need to re-install it. After dinner I set about installing my much needed software

1.  Windows updates (All 94MB of them)
2. Anti Virus software
3. Apache
4. PHP
5. MySQL
6. iTunes

I got asfar as installing PHP and then ran in to problems, for some reason the PHP install routine failed, although it did complete. At this point it was quite late so decided to call it a night. I’m sure I’ll pick it up again tonight and try again. It’s got to be something simple.

People at work that have used Windows Vista are mixed in their opinions on it, some love it some hate it. From what little time I have been playing with it, I quite like it. The widgets are a useful feature although one big problem for me with one of the them, the RSS reader - you can’t configure it to read RSS feeds you want it to read. It will only read the Microsoft ones. I did a quick look on the interweb last night for another one that could be configured, but fell short. I’m sure there is one somewhere it’s just a matter of finding it. I like the new look to the Windows interface, although Clare didn’t. She didn’t like the way the windows and alerts popped up, she said it would do her head (or was it eyes?) in. Each to their own I guess!

I’ll write more once I’ve used it more!