The more times I experience the joys of GPS, the more I want my own - they're really good when travelling in the car (and for avoiding speed cameras). And now, as if by magic, several companies have released add-on units for the Pocket PC, which allows you to add GPS to your exisiting handheld, such as this one by Navman (which rather cleverly works via Bluetooth), or this one which slots into the CompactFlash slot on the back of the iPaq. Genius!

I'm writing this whilst sat on the train on my way home from an exceptionally dull work-related excursion, but my Pocket PC has more than proved its worth today. I've cumulatively spent nearly four hours on a variety of trains, but I've got six different albums stored on my Compactflash card, and with Media Player set to "shuffle" I've not heard the same track twice yet! Also, the Pocket PC has supplied me with reading material via AvantGo and I've been able to look up train times on the web. Not forgetting the fact that I can email and publish to my blog using it as well. This is a great gadget!

I've only managed to play about thirty minutes of Halo 2 so far, but I have to say that I'm impressed. I like it. The only thing I'm slightly curious about is Bungie's bizarre widescreen implementation. The game plays in widescreen quite nicely, but they haven't bothered to re-render the game's HUD graphics - so whilst all the in game action is formatted for 16:9 ratio, the radar, weapons info and targetting reticule are all bizarrely oval and squashed. Surely it wouldn't have been that big a job to redo it for those people playing in widescreen? Ah well, I'll forgive them. I can't wait to try it out on Xbox live!

Halo 2 day tomorrow! I'm very excited!

So I've had a couple of weeks of using my newly-configured computer with Firefox instead of IE, and I can happily report that all seems to be going well. Certainly a lot more smooth than it was previously anyway. Just goes to show that you shouldn't jump head-first into upgrading things straight away. There are always teething troubles. And the other lesson is that if it works okay, don't mess with it. I'm forever tinkering with things, and sometimes I just come unstuck. From now on - hopefully - I'm going to leave things alone. I've switched off automatic updates in Windows XP now, so maybe things will just tick along nicely for a while...