Stlyus Weekly Album Art Challenge. I can only get a couple of these each week. Give it a try.

Rich Siegal author of BBEdit (product catch phrase - "a text editor which doesn't suck") gives his impressions of the new MacBook Pro. Builds his product twice as fast as his previous G4 PowerBook.

Looks like someone has given the NZ State Services Commission a beating with the clue-stick and they're taking the feedback onboard regarding recommendations for open source software use within Government.

Assuming they don't get toppled this is probably pretty close to the reality of Google in 20 years. Taking personal search to all new levels. Combined with RFID tagging soon the mighty G will know the whereabouts of everything and everyone :-)

Cool - Phil Zimmermans Zfone - OSX/Linux encrypted VOIP app.

Cool value add - iWoodNano. As mass produced items become more and more prevalent this type of personalisation is going to become more and more popular and hand-made quality items are going to get more and more expensive. I wonder when some old crusty is going to put his wood work skills to use and churn out high end luxury usb optical mice made from oak, walnut or rose-wood ? Doh - looks like someone has already done it in stone and leather too.

I could never get it to work - DFS Replication. Looks horribly useful though.

How commmitted is Microsoft to .Net - Detailed look at how Microsoft has avoided using .Net in any of its major products. Minimal use in XP, Server 2003 or Longhorn/Vista.

Cool - Foredge Book Art. Looks like the site is getting hammered so its limited to a homepage for now. Amazing to see the workmanship though.

Manage all your shell variables with Sheepdog. My days of switching between bash, csh and ksh are long gone but I can see the attraction of such a tool for those working in a multi-shell environment.

Nifty - LED Monitoring via parallel port and perl.

Awesome - Psychotic cat.

Finding free Palm stuff can be a hassle - at least at PalmOpenSource its free and with the source you can mess around with the code. Interesting that theres a Spectrum and Amiga emulator available now for those machines with the grunt to run them (eg ARM based).