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July 14 has come and gone, and about all I have to show for it is a defragmented Windows disk, and a successfully installed Service Pack 4. Allons Enfants indeed! It all began when I asked my son to re-install his math software on the kitchen computer. More the fool, I!

Who says kids need to be good in math, anyway? It turned out the only thing wrong was that the CD was scratched, and couldn't be read by the CD drive. So, it probably wasn't necessary to un-install all the games and market mapping analysis software I had on my computer, nor to take off the cover and double-check the cables, nor to defragment the hard drive.

If I had thought to check the diagnostic program carefully before beginning, I wouldn't have been influenced by the spurious "CD ROM drive has been uninstalled" error message that popped up when the CD reader timed out on the defective CD.

And I wouldn't have had to install the new service pack either, if I hadn't un-installed some stuff that took out something essential, spewing forth another doom-and-gloom error message that turned out to make no difference.

Isn't this fascinating? An evening essentially wasted when I could have been playing mumbledy-peg or walking the dog around the neighborhood.

Listen, I'll make it up to you somehow: Here is a list of some bluetooth phones that currently exist.

Bluetooth phones include: Nokia 3650 / 6310i / Sony Ericsson P800 / R520 / T39m / T61d / T68 / T68i / T68m / T608 / T610 / T616 / LG VX9000 / Siemens S56.

I saw an advertisement for the S56 and nowhere in the ad did it mention bluetooth -- full-color photos of the phone appeared twice. Goes to show, they're just not selling technology these days. They're selling color phones with internet connections.