Inkjets are too cheap, and the ink too expensive - thats common knowledge.

Personally I’ve been buying my Ink for my Epson R300 from Ebay for the past year, buying on average a full set of Epson ink usually with an extra black - for the less than the cost of one orignial cartridge. The ink is identical in quality if a good brand is picked - I’ve had good experiences with all bar one brand.

My tips if considering a switch to compatibles - Get a set of photo paper.

Are HP in trouble?

I’ve been using VOIP at home now for 6 months - I have had a pretty good experience, so good in fact I can see why BT are switching everyone to effectively VOIP as part of 21CN (even as only from exchange point).

Kit I use is the Sipura SPA 3000 - which is owned by Linksys, and thus Cisco model.

Saw this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/13/microsoft_drm_bskyb1/ today and it amused me.

Sky are turning off Movies/Sports on Demand - their internet on demand services due to the bugs in M$ DRM.

A downside (or upsite in some minds to being in IT is callouts.

I’ve just had a killer week, and been called out so far in 3/5 days.

Over the years I’ve worked in quite a few companies and literally hundereds of projects - one thing is common