Later this year, there will be two new operating systems available.
Microsoft are going to release Windows 7, and it looks good. (I have downloaded the release candidate and installed it on a computer. While I need to test it a bit more, I do think I will be happier with it than I am with Vista.)
Apple also have the next iteration of OS X almost ready for release. I havent used a pre-release version of "snow leopard", but the reviews look good.
Of course, OS X only works on Apple computers, but it also will cost a lot less.
There has been a lot of talk over the last months on using the power of the Internet to raise money for charities etc. This was epitomised by what Barak Obama did in his election campaign. Indeed he did use the power of the Internet but he did not simply do a ‘Field of Dreams’ where it was ‘Build it and they will come’. He used his campaign workers to gradually build a series of networks of ordinary people and then collected small amounts of money form each one.
