I have finally managed to spend some time to get something I always wanted going for me...yes I managed to get a Dynamic status message happening for my Live Messenger...and it uses the computer's clock and appends the msg with the current date and time every 30 seconds or so :) I used these resources from http://messenger.mslivelabs.com/samples/ the "Hello World" sample is pretty good. Just some javascript and I got something going..you should try it too... oh BTW, I just turned that into a very useful NY count down timer :)

I went to watch the latest Keanu Reeves movie last night. It was released on boxing day in Australia. Along with a the few funny dialogues, The mechanical locust storms and the drones flights were the only scenes I liked.  The movie nails a point home -  humans have to change/evolve to survive (global warming).

thanks to Liam, I am now a xobni user. Xobni, reverse for inbox is an Outlook add-in that allows you to not only index and search your emails across multiple pst's (SSW had a free tool for this many years ago) but has interesting email intelligence tools integrated with it. You can figure out who is your number one contact based on email traffic, other network of people, times at which you are getting messages from certain people, etc. I think a server version of the tool is probably MS would want to plug into Exchange for their Social networking features.