I had a play with my old TV card the other day. First I tried the old faithful xawtv, but it's looking a bit dated now. Ages ago I used something called KWinTV, but that has now become KDETV. This has a nice interface. It took me a while to get the sound working until I worked out that you could tell it to use ALSA. I had similar problems with playing audio CDs, but got it working. I still have a problem in that I can only seem to have one program using sound at any time. Some will refuse to start if another audio program is running. Others start up, but remain silent with no errors popping up.

I had a problem with an encrypted email crashing Thunderbid. I've not see that before. Out of interest I had a play with Kmail. This handled the encryption well and has some nice features like showing the spam score of each mail. It should also integrate better with other software than the Mozilla programs do. I want to see if I can synchronise my Palm address book with the one used by Kmail. It makes a lot of sense to only have to enter that data once.

I watched a bit of Live 8 at the weekend. I remember watching Live Aid and have seen quite a few similar gigs on TV since then. The only one I've been to was the Freddy Mercury tribute at Wembley. I think the novelty has worn off a bit, but there were a few good performances. I still fail to see the point of Dido. I thought the aging rockers at the end did a good job. Nice to see Pink Floyd together again.