If you haven't heard of social bookmarking go and sign up for del.icio.us or furl two free social bookmark web applications.

Both of these bookmark systems allow you to tag items based on any keyword.

While reading java.blogs I found a site (http://www.rovol.com/ I'm not going to link to it) that looked very familiar. The site is an obvious ripoff of Macromedia.com. They even went so far as to rotate the Macromedia logo sideways to use as a bullet.

I just came across a JavaScript Debugger Extension for Firefox. It's a little slow and clunky still, but it looks like it is in active development. The mozilla debugger looks much better than the Microsoft Script Debugger.

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I was just reading this article on programming language success. The article shows that successful languages (C, C++, Java, UNIX) were created by someone with a beard. Languages such as: Fortran, Prologue, Ada, Smalltalk, Objective C, all had beardless creators.

Scott Meyers, author of Effective C++ has put together a guide titled: Advice to Prospective Book Authors.

It has lots of good advice for people considering writing a book.

I'm heading down to Orlando, FL to speak at the MXimize Conference. I will be returning Wednesday night.

Hope to see some readers there...

I was recently pointed to an OpenSSH installer for Windows. This includes both the clients (ssh, scp) and a server (ssh shell server, and scp/sftp server). It also adds the clients to your path for you so you can use them from the command line.

On wednesday the Mozilla Group posted Thunderbird 1.0 Release Candidate 1 to their site. One thing you will notice right away is the new icons, and theme improvements.

I have been using Thunderbird since version 0.3, and I've been pretty happy with it ever since.