My cat Jarvis had his latest weigh-in today, as part of his on-going obesity management program. His weight is now 6.05kg, down from 6.14kg two weeks ago. This is not as dramatic a fall as in the first two weeks of the program, but still in the right direction, as his chart shows.

A chap from Tesco Car Insurance came round yesterday to investigate the damage to my vehicle after its recent bump.

My wife said that the chap carried a "funky laptop that folded back on itself" and it was running software that allowed him to view a 3D model of the car and expand out the constituent parts (like a furniture assembly diagram) in order to identify the damaged parts, which he marked with a stylus.

The Tablet PC clearly has a place in the portable computing market alongside traditional laptops and PDAs, certainly for data-capture type jobs.

My sister, who works as an Occupational Therapist in the NHS, has also been given a Tablet PC for capturing the results of the assessment interviews she conducts with patients in their homes.

From Monday to Wednesday next week, I'm on a Microsoft training course in London. The course was free, as the organisation I work for got some free training vouchers included with our Microsoft Enterprise Licensing agreement.

The course title is Core Distributed Application Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Over three days, it covers .Net remoting, web services and message queuing. I'm looking forward to the course, as I haven't studied distributed development since the VB6 days, so it will be interesting to compare the old with the new. Sadly, though, I think the course content is mostly redundant now that remoting and web services have been superseded by Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in .Net framework 3.0.