Google has released a web-based RSS reader and aggregator that is pretty nice. You can read all posts from all the feeds you subscribe to in a chronological order, or you can just read from a specific feed. It has lots of AJAX and a pretty smooth interface with shortcut keys that really speed up [...]
I use VBScript all the time unfortunately. It’s pretty handy, and it’s easy for beginners to get into. But it’s getting old and is really slow for doing web stuff, and really isn’t as flexible as C-style languages (like JScript and the newer C# and stuff). I can forgive it things like ReDim for arrays [...]
I’ve got an old Toshiba Portege 3110. Unfortunately the screen got broken, so now it’s a 40×25 display in text mode, or 400×600 in graphics mode. But I couldn’t help thinking that it would be a nice quiet, compact, low-power headless server at the least, and I haven’t seen GNOME or KDE for a while [...]