Just a quick one – if you haven’t seen this yet, Swati Bansal over at ITSpice has an excellent article – 19 Most Effective Open Source Tools For Developers. Great roundup if you haven’t seen it already…

…with junkyard desktop wallpaper! Sheer class – loving it!

Found this totally by accident while prepping an open source tool you’ll be seeing here soon(ish).

It’s a download page for all Yahoo! products (well, the downloadable ones, anyway). Quite cool if you ask me – why don’t they make more of this?

I’ve been using the excellent freeware RSS reader Feedreader for ages; great for keeping up with my RSS feeds (Thunderbird can do much the same, but for some reason I find I prefer Feedreader…)

Having installed it in XP I wanted to portable-ise* it so I could use it in my Windows 7 setup. Turns out – thanks to this post – that it’s rather easy to do… (more…)

Well, here’s a thing. I listen to the Misfits quite a lot (mainly Danzig-era, to be honest), I enjoyed Shaun Of The Dead quite a lot, and I play Left 4 Dead quite a lot. So basically, what I’m trying to say is… well, I quite like zombies. (more…)