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Viewed February 20, 2010

http://www.dosomething.org/
novell.com

http://www.freeproxyserver.net/ lets me check from outside whether DNS is working, virtual hosts are configured correctly, etc. without having to leave the building or ask somebody to go there and tell me what they're seeing. Tres cool.

Artisteer - windows app to create themes for CMS systems by clicking on buttons and selecting images, rather than writing code. It's a good thing.

Update - It's a good thing for reasonably simple sites, but doesn't let me do fluid layouts, and doesn't quite handle the Drupal-ly stuff the way I'd expect -- the header graphic is defined in the theme, so it's manual editing to use the Drupal theme logo that can be swapped out per site, and then that logo doesn't become a link to Home automatically.

I bought a Sony ebook reader last night. It's really cool, but I have a lot of important work to do today, and can't think of any way that an ebook would be relevant to getting any of it done. I've tried.

These are bits and pieces of software I like to use:

FileZilla (for normal FTP stuff)

CloneZilla (for cloning workstations and servers to virtual or just for backups)

ScriptFTP (for scripted FTP - mostly backups of just changed or new files)

PDF Split and Merge ( http://www.pdfsam.org)

TextPad for editing anything

PixelWindow (shows a transparent measure over your screen)

It's a Japanese maple. It looked really quite impressive at Home Depot, and took quite a bit of wrangling to get in the car, but once planted it's tiny. It replaces the apple tree that was eaten over the winter. Hopefully japanese maple doesn't taste as good as apple, but I'll have to check in the fall to see what I can do to protect it from snow dwellers

Cabinets are ordered (delivery not yet confirmed though).
Stove is delivered.