We have one of these at work. It’s a WiFi-enabled bunny which lights up, wiggles its ears and plays tunes when people send it messages. It’s hooked up to a web service at http://www.nabaztag.com/ and also has an API which allows you to interact with it - so the other day I rigged it up to our monitoring systems at work… now it starts chattering away if we have any service problems… neat! Really want one of these myself - unfortunately they’re only available in France at the moment Update: they’re now available in the UK!

Been banging my head against the wall for the last few days trying to figure out why my Bittorrent downloads have suddenly become so slow. Turns out my ISP (Force9) has bandwidth-limited my P2P traffic because I racked up 60 gigs of transfers last month

Bandwidth limiting is probably a good solution to greedy users such as myself - still getting full speed HTTP so I can’t complain too much - the only thing that annoys me is the underhanded way in which they’ve applied it - previously was told that I had 100GB allowance per month, and this has changed without notice.

I’ll probably stick with them though - as they still have the best policies I’ve come across so far. Besides, in a few months our local exchange should be getting ADSL 2+, which means I can join Bethere.co.uk - 24 megs down, 1 meg up… and work is paying for it!