I’m pretty happy with myself!
Having finally managed to set up a wireless network at home (I made it as difficult as possible, honest) I’ve now got portable thunderbird and portable firefox on my USB stick… so now I can take my browser and email anywhere with xp (with all my finicky settings) and I get to have a hold of my own data and privacy rather than it being backed up to a horrid centralised storage system!
Now, um, I have to do some work…