Cretification and Incompatible Mousemats

Microsoft have sent me some certificates. Apparently I am now a Technical Specialist in, among other things, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2003. Now, I know nothing about the former, and the latter doesn't even exist, so I felt the need to complain. After an exchange of emails, corrected certificates are on their way. In the process, though, I've discovered a new Freudian slip: my mind insists on typing "Microsoft Cretification". Am I trying to tell myself something?

Meanwhile, this week's course was plagued by problems with the mouse behaviour in Virtual PC: the mouse pointer kept jumping round the screen at random. After a while, we tracked it down to the effect of the company's old shiny starburst-design mousemats on the new optical mice. And so I had to go and tell our facilities people that our mousemats were incompatible and needed replacing...