Thanks to Microsoft's latest flawed updates I'm having computer troubles along with many others

Read about it here:
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/3951/53/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918165 http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186500318

Do a google on search terms: verclsid hang

One "work around" is to bring up task manager and kill any verclsid.exe process - I found this fix by trial and error and now have seen others mention it.

Speaking of computers, there's a free conference this Saturday:

http://barcamp.org/BarCampOttawa

If I was speaking at this, and I'm not, I think I would lead a session called:

Lean and Mean Project Teams

I believe that project teams need to be lean, composed mostly of A types. However a team of A types can be quite mean, since they tend to drive over others to reach objectives. So both the lean and mean aspects need to be managed. Perhaps there would be interest in this...