'It could destroy us,' he wails. 'We are choosing cat-juggling videos over well-researched newscasts.'

What's wrong with that, we ask? But seriously, we reckon Williams is more concerned about the democratic, voice-of the-people aspect of blogging, as he made the comment in a recent meeting with Arianna 'Queen of the Blogosphere' Huffington. Check out the whole fascinating debate in the interview on The Observer's Web site ' it says Huffington Post (a two-year-old leftie Web site) is causing big political waves in the U.S. 'Nuff said.

How many Vista engineers'

Here's a version of the old 'How many ' does it take to change a light bulb' joke, courtesy of The Guardian: How many ' does it take to turn off a Vista PC? Answer: 43.

So says Moishe Lettvin, who spent a year working on one Vista feature which, he says, should have taken a week but took three teams of eight programmers plus six layers of managers, and a manager to manage them all, and 12 months to develop. All to devise a laptop 'off' menu that gives users 15 different ways to shut down their laptop. What is it they say about design by committee?