The old XP desktop got SLOW - so we virus scanned and busted spyware and the like - and promptly had a "startup" problem. It was the original install (5 years old) so I decided to format and install fresh. Unfortunately, the recovery partition must be "compromised" as after the fresh install, I had a "hal.dll" corrupt or missing error. Argh! Took awhile to get it worked out, but we are now sporting a fresh XP Home install on the desktop.The Max Media Dock that I use on the Nintendo DS to read textfiles and the like had an upgrade in the last little while - well, Moonshell had an upgrade, and now it will read Western Text Encoding (was having to convert to UTF-8, which sometimes looked ok, and most of the time was a big pain in the @ss). I can now read my text (links to text sites on the right =====>>) much more comfortably. I also caught onto a concept that helps me deal with text files that might not be formatted well or as pristine as I would like - bit-rot. I love electronic reading!
