Done a few bits and pieces over the last two days

•  Finished off the box I’ve been making for Leila’s room
• Repaired the Tiger which had succumbed to Leila’s testing to destruction approach
• Finished the dining room doors
• Downloaded SP3 update for XP (from Microsoft catalog site – here ) and slipstreamed (integrated it) with my original XP disk. Then used a useful tool to integrate all the subsequent updates to produce a ‘latest version’ XP CD (from RyanVM – see here ). Couple of additional software tools used – ISOBuster (here ) and gBurner (here ). However I’ve just found an even better tool (nLite) to do this and more. Testing it later.
• The Dell system is still running OK
• Fixed another of my laptops – John and I had replaced a power socket on it a few weeks ago but it has since stopped working. Took it apart and resoldered the contacts and it worked! I wonder if it will stay working….
• West Brom got stuffed by Hull (Steve will be depressed)
• Leila and Oscar both phoned today – translations supplied by Bec and Sian respectively
• If you want to understand how to ‘slipstream’ XP updates, see page 2