Gah! -- bloody council

Our local council has just decided to remove almost all the bus / cycle lane from the main arteries into the town centre. Apparently motorists were finding it too restrictive. Good grief! What century is this again?

Not only that but the Lib Dems have the gall to boast about this on their leaflet. "It's good to see the views of local people taken into account after years of being ignored [by the Labour council which was in power until last year and which instigated the bus lanes]." Bastards!

Windows 98 problem

Anyone out there remember the happy days of Windows 98 SE? T's pc has a problem -- it boots up apparently OK, but freezes within about a minute of finishing populating the desktop. In safe mode, though, it's fine. I've done the obvious things like turning off all the startup gubbins, but no joy. Seen this sort of thing before?