Today I am working on editing and improving some videos for a work-related project and I'm now using the full version of Adobe Creative Production Premium which comes with most of the major Adobe products.  One such product is Soundbooth which has worked miracles on reducing extremely annoying sound noise which was recorded with the microphone on overgain (hence lots of static, etc) – something I've done myself and am only too aware of.

The Dell XPS continues to impress, but am now a little bit concerned over the secondary hard drive which  is making minor beeping noises whenever it seems to be working a little too hard.  Western Digital haven't exactly been the most helpful (first they say it's normal, now they say it isn't and won't actually say what the beeping is supposed to mean). 

I'm thinking that I should get Dell to replace the other hard drive and hope that'll be the end of the mess.  In the mean time, I'm going to have to use something like Acronis TrueImage to back up the hard drive(s) for an easy restore – Dell do not provide 64-bit driver CD-ROM for this machine which requires a 3G dongle to get Internet access to download them.
Have managed to break the chain of my electric pushbike, so will need to go into work by bus all next week until I can get it fixed.  Hopefully the part is still under warranty.