If you can read this, my domain has been successfully transferred from wwwserver to Netcetera. Whilst wwwserver provide an incredibly cheap Asp.NET hosting service and a very intuitive management system, their helpdesk support leaves a whole lot to be desired.

When a customer registers a problem on an automated helpdesk system, it is entirely unacceptable that the issue remains unanswered 48 hours later. At the very least acknowledge to the customer that the problem is being looked into, rather than leaving them wondering what on earth is going on.

As it is, I've lost two full days worth of emails in as many weeks due to their Email Forwarding service failing.

Sometimes cheap is not cheerful.

So, Davina McCall reckons that those of us who think that the nauseating Big Brother is obnoxious, vapid, mindless, soul-destroying crap are "pseudo-intellectuals who have never really watched it". Fair enough, I've not watched it at all - saturation media coverage has ensured that I know more about what happened on the programme than I want to. Pseudo-intellectual? Possibly.

But I'm sorry Davina, you can't seriously expect us to buy the line that "The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks."

Really? Is British society really soley comprised of media whores looking for Z-list celebrity status? If it is, maybe it's time to emigrate.

If you've never heard William Shatner murdering the Beatles classic Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds before, you've missed out on a truly horrific moment in popular culture. Head on over to http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/29841/ for a video celebrating this camp masterpiece.

The Shirley Temple Pilots were due to play at Finns this coming Saturday (the 13^th August), but Drummer Bloke seems to have broken his hand which means we're minus a bongo player. So, unfortuately, we've got to cancel the gig. Sorry to anyone who was going to come down.

I downloaded a copy of Windows Vista Beta 1 last night (legitimately I might add) and installed it on my 3Ghz workhorse system first thing this morning.

Installation itself was a breeze - I'd already prepared for the installation my shrinking my primary XP partition by 25Gb. The installation procedure pretty much boiled down to:

1. Boot system from DVD
2. Select empty space for installation
3. Name the system
4. Provide activation key
5. Wait

Unfortunately, it looks as though I'm going to have to wait before I can see what the Aero Glass experience is like, as the 6600 GTOC I currently have installed doesn't have any LDDM (Longhorn Display Driver Model) support yet. Hopefully it won't be too long before nVidia provide a beta driver to play with.

Update: nVidia released some alpha LDDM drivers almost immediately, but on my system I ended up with a physical screen resolution of around 640 x 480 with a much larger 'virtual desktop' which does not pan or scroll. I'm going to wait until nVidia come up with newer drivers before I play around with Vista again.