So I am now using Xobni - the new email revolution software.

I have some invites - who wants them - comments please. (

Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that helps you organize your flooded inbox.

Comments from their website:

Sidebar View of Past Conversations & Attachments

Don't waste time hunting for information buried in email - everything is right there in the sidebar.

Lightning Fast Email Search

Locate lost attachments, contacts, conversations and more with search that responds as you type.

"Bill Gates called Xobni the next generation of
social networking."

Microsoft

• Outlook
• plugin

Start: 21 Jun 2008 - 9:00am

End: 21 Jun 2008 - 11:59pm

This event is going to be a combined event with RAW WAR and is at Rivers Baptist Church 90 Francis Road. we will be running a UT2004 Tournament. Details below.

LAN Format is as follows:

• 9am setup
• 10am free play
• 5pm install set up and test UT2004
• 7pm tournament starts
• 11pm tournament finishes and prizes
• 11:30pm packup
• 12am depart

Cost

• $12 including Pizza for dinner
• No lunch provided
• Network cables and power boards supplied

UT2004 Tournament details.

We will run a UT2004 tournament from 7PM to 11PM with prizes.

• This will be run in teams of 4 - if you don't have a team or only part of a team we will randomly assign players or bots to assist.
• If you do not have the correct version installed (6.39) and ready to play by 7PM we will start without you. We will provide mods and maps.
• Each team will play others on a predetermined roster and culminate in a semi final and grand final.
• Each team will choose a map and game type and play the other team with their choice as well - eg 2 games per round. Each round will be time limited and will be synchronised.
• We might just throw in a couple of special all in rounds as well.
• Results will be collected at the end of each round and collated by tournament admin - its is the team's obligation to make sure this happens.
• Arbitration will be settled out in the carpark with a foam sword fight!
• Thanks to new sponsors TerraMedia for tournament prizes

Log in and sign up for the event on the website www.krostech.biz to get a free drink voucher.

Technology

• gaming

A new family has come to our church and the 5 kids make up an awesome band. Named Freak Morice they played on Friday night for a school chaplaincy fund raising movie night we held.

I videoed them using my mobile phone camera and with their permission uploaded them to YouTube. Check out the Freak Morice MySpace site. All their songs are original written and composed material. They range in age from 16 to 8 in age. I have uploaded 5 videos to my Alborath YouTube account.

Internet

• video

Personal

• friends

I had a long term client come to me on Monday with his PC crashed. He went to bed Sunday night and it was working fine and Monday morning it had gone into an endless boot loop. Fortunately he had backups (I have trained him well).

We tried numerous things to get the drive to boot including safe mode and so on to no avail. The drive seemed to be physically OK so I copied all the data off the drive before trying a few more things. I ran a chkdsk on the drive and fixed errors. No luck. Then I finally did a fixmbr and fixboot command from inside the windows XP recovery console. These reported back as working, but it still refused to boot.

Finally to save the customer time I offered to rebuild his PC. Here is where the fun really started.

In this version of SpyJournal (its the third website I have had) there have been some stand out blog posts. Here is the list of the top 10 all time favourite posts:

Excel 2007 Conditional Formatting

Microsoft Releases Word 2007 Viewer for Reading docx Documents (written by Lena)

The reality of the Internet

Web Feeds and Links

How we use technology at work, school and play

Multiple Monitors

Expelled the Movie - No Intelligence Allowed

Windows Home Server and SBS2003

The Internet, Pornograpy, Filters and Sexual Predators

Internet

• Blogging

One side effect of being sick and not eating ( I have had 2 pieces of toast in the last 36 hours) is the weight loss - I was down to 110.9KGs this morning!

My goal is to get below 110 so it was nice seeing that number on the scales this morning. I suspect I will go back up a kg or two once I start eating again. I have lost several kgs lately as my exercise levels have ramped up with basketball and AFL. I was sitting on 113 or so before being sick.

Personal

• health

it hit me last night - after basketball coaching was over and after I had spent 4 hours working on taxes. I went to bed when I kept waking up with my hands holding keys down on the keyboard.

Sometime in the middle of the night I woke to a gurgling stomach. No more details are necessary, save that I haven't dared go far from the bathroom today. I am the last of the family to get it to hit me. I thought I was going to escape.

At least this is a long weekend and I have felt better enough today after spending half the day in bed to finish the tax work and even watch the Anzac Parade on TV.

Recovery is happening too slow - I want to be better now! Oh well - time now to go play with the kids before the Anzac Day football hits the big screen.

Personal

• health

Joseph Chirilov has written a series of 3 posts showing exactly how to build a fully functioning media player inside Excel.

If you want to try this then follow his step 1, step 2 and step 3. I would be interested in hearing from anybody who does that.

While we are talking about Joseph's site I want to highlight two other posts that are there.

Microsoft

• formatting
• Excel
• Compatibility
• calculation