Sun release their first sub $1000US server - AnandTech reviews the SunFire X2100. They look pretty minimalist - it'll be interesting to see what happens when Apple switches its Xserve line to x86 . . .

Security - Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.

Microsofts new Gadgets seem to be strangely similar to Konfabulator / Dashboard widgets.

Pillaging links mercilessly from the excellent Nedwolf collection of freeware -

Optical Character Recognition - SimpleOCR. A little clunky looking but it seems to get the job done.

Free Backup/File Synch - SyncBack from 2BrightSparks who also have a couple of other useful tools - for hash calculation / file encryption.

Free planetarium - Stellarium. Open source and cross platform. Pretty cool.

I always wondered what 'Pink' was and now I know - Brief history of the Pink OS within Apple. Hard to believe they wasted so many years developing junk like this which never saw the light of day. Let alone those that did but were dropped soon after release (QuickdrawGX, OpenDoc, Newton, Geoport etc).

OK - Saw Sin City a few weeks ago - not to bad stylistically and storywise but I wouldn't call it a particularly enjoyable movie (in the same way that Pulp Fiction was actually pretty fun to watch).

Pretty Good (if you've never seen the original) - Saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on the weekend and thought it was pretty good. Not as good as the original though - Depp doesn't have the same meloncholic-malevolence that Gene Wilder did in the original.

Excellent - The same week I saw Sin City I also caught Heights which was actually a very engaging romantic drama centered around collapsing relationships over a 24hr period.