Great Articles! Thanks, I never considered the webTV option or thought about a track ball. Wonderful ideas and a new concept to consider. I'll talk to the folks about different options. Raymond <snip> Mark, your have written a very interesting column. I read an article in PC Magazine not too long ago by Bill Machrone on his setting up a box for his mother or mother in-law and the woes she had with it as an older person http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/opinions/0,7802,2692065,00.html <snip> Brad Loomis <snip> About 18 months or so ago I wrote a column about the future of broadband and Web TV.http://www.freepctech.com/rode/021.shtml. Rode <snip> The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com