Vista Bandwidth Boost. As a recent Vista convert (at least on my little girl's PC--one PC at a time) I'm paying attention to quality of Vista life issues like this post that claims to boost Vista net download speeds on an intranet from 700KB to 18MB.
Good checklist on finding work online for freelancers. Freelance Switch is one of those incredible blogs that cranks out great content week after week. Here's a good checklist on how to find work online, or more specifically, getting work to come to you rather than the other way around. I won't forget the reaction of a local business group I consulted with not long ago. "You mean, companies call YOU for work? They pay you...and you never meet them???"
With a minor in Photoshop. Speaking of freelancing, I don't think I would have ever gotten here without healthy Photoshop chops. I have to thank my last Dilbertville job back in the 1990's for a lot of that. I was Manager of the 1500-employee company's Intranet and was bored to death in my little cubicle, so for months I worked through every Photoshop book I could find. I keep thinking I'll have a block of time to go back to Photoshop School, but that's Real World unlikely. Here's a Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of list from Smashing Magazine, which re-awakened the hunger.
The Meta-Emotional World around a Steve Jobs comment. Someone at MacWorld asked for Jobs' thoughts on Microsoft's Robbie Bach statement that Zune was a "worthy alternative" to the iPod. Jobs responded, "Was he inebriated? Do you even know anyone who owns a Zune?" Can't Jobs simply say something funny (and probably pretty accurate) without spawning 250 comments on whether he's an ass or not? Or if he's brilliant, is it okay for him to be an ass? Geez. What I did find interesting about the first 50 comments or so was how many people really love their Zunes. Maybe the next Zune will be the one that gets me to switch from my 160GB iPod Classic.
End of a great rock band. There's something about the sound of Oklahoma rock-n-roll bands that I love. Upside was one such band, who sadly, recently broke up. Here are two Upside albums available on Amazon MP3 Downloads. Scope & History is my favorite, but Jim Beam & The American Dream is excellent, too. Start with "Does This Make Me Look Dead."