Lost for words? If you use Microsoft Word 2003 as your email editor and need to find a more fancy way of expressing yourself, just highlight a word in your email and press SHIFT+F7. This brings up the Research task pane giving you access to a multitude of online resources including dictionaries, thesauruses (or should that be thesauri?) , Encarta Encyclopaedia, Factiva iWorks, stock quotes and much more. A very handy way to research a topic and grow your vocabulary as you type!

Here's another thing I like today. As I write there are 4 months, 16 days, 2 hours, 4 minutes and 47 seconds until the kick off of the Football World Cup. And I know that because I just discovered MSN's Road to the World Cup page at http://worldcup.uk.msn.com/. I'm getting excited already...