I’m going to add my voice to the chorus of howls at Apple slipping Safari downloads into Apple Software Update. It’s a pain. I’ve now had all three Windows machines ask me, out of the blue, if I want to install Safari. It’s an irritation and devalues Apple brand and what is probably a perfectly decent browser. Although why we need yet another browser I don’t know. I thought the web industry had outgrown the browser wars. Clearly not. Sigh.

It’s mad here at Rapid at the moment, hence low posting rate. Coming soon, however, comparison of using Dell XPS with Vista and Macbook with OSX, as well as iPod Touch thoughts.

I’ve a new Vodafone mobile broadband connection built in to the new laptop (more of which later), and I was surprised to find that Vodafone have an adult content blocker on that, which includes Flickr!Ok, so Flikr does has some naughty pictures, but I don’t think my photostream would offend anyone. At least as a Vodafone High Volume client I get amazing call centre access and had the blocker removed in minutes.

PS that’s right - I did say something nice about Vodafone. I know it’s unfashionable and atypical, but the high-volume team really are good.