I just downloaded this yesterday, I'll give more info in a week or so, once I've played with it a bit more.

Thanks to Sierra Modro of GottaBeMobile.com for this heads up.

If looking for a Valentine's Day gift for that special woman in your life pop on over to FaceBooks Vivienne Tam Special Edition Notebook page The HP Mini Vivienne Tam Edition might be the perfect gift.

HP will pick one lucky winner for the Vivienne Tam Edition Mini. Rules and entry instructions are posted on this page are are simple. Contest ends 5PM PST on February 9, 2009 and the winner will be picked on February 11, 2009.

Hurry on over and Good Luck!

HPVT

I’m very excited to announce I've been asked to test HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition out by HP and review the product!! Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting and working exclusively from VTM. This should help those who are looking for a new laptop make a more informed decision before making your purchase. I hope to get some pictures up by this weekend along with a bit more information and my first impression.

Here's mine as it arrived:

Operating system: Genuine Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3
Processor: Intel(R) Atom(TM) Processor N270 (1.60GHz)
Display: 10.1" diagonal SD LED BrightView Infinity Widescreen Display (1024 x 576)
Memory: 1GB DDR2 System Memory (1 Dimm)
Graphics card: Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Hard drive: 60GB 4200RPM PATA Hard Drive
Personalization: HP Mini Webcam with HP Imprint Finish (Vivienne Tam)
Keyboard: HP Color Matching Keyboard
Networking:...

So here we go, this post is completely irrelevent to technology and completely and utterly getting in the way of my review of the HP mini as a few thoughts about the HP PhotoSmart and MediaSmart - but I am doing it anyway.

So in Summer of 2007 I decided one day I wanted a fish tank so I rocked on down to Porton and during the selection of tanks it suddenly dawned on me that I could go ahead and make it tropical with the addition of a heater

So, I wanted to take this seriously so I got it setup - waited a week to let the bacterial agents do their thing and convert the ammonia into nitrates and then the nitrates into nitrates (or was it the other way around?)

My 15 litre tank was'nt very big at all and was only support a single fish to start with (or I was playing it safe) - this fish was a Synodontis - a type of catfish and I still have him today, two of them infact.

I experimented with more fish such as Kryptopterus bicirrhis (glass...

Welcome to my first blog about Windows 7, I hope to be making regular blogs about my personal experiences with the betas and release candidates where I am able!

Apologies for the audio on both, but I seem to have left my mic on while recording and was talking rubbish on the phone!

So I saw some shaky cam footage the other day and really wanted to put something of better quality out there.
It is also an opportunity for me to leave my first thoughts about Windows 7 as I have been playing with it now since the start of November.
First things first, here is the build that was given to WinHEC attendees loading added for the sake of comparison:


Admittedly fairly unexciting although you can already see that the general quality of the bootscreen is higher.
This early milestone build has an interface very similar to that of Vista which has already been replaced by newer builds and it is definately very much a...