Features new to Thunderbird 2 include message tags, folder views, session navigation history, a visual refresh of the theme, and improved new mail notification alerts.

Om Malik on the early beginnings of GigaOm and blogging in general

The Globe’s advice to a user who complained that the site doesn’t work in Opera: “Stop using Opera”

WYMeditor has been created to generate perfectly structured XHTML strict code, to conform to the W3C specifications and to facilitate further processing by modern applications.

Download the beta of the new Photoshop CS. Only works for 3 days unless you have a CS2 serial number.

Scott does an excellent review of his experience with GPLHOST

Bryan Velesco has left Automattic, citing conflicting work expectations

Even Santa has a blog now!

If you’re looking to sell your car, you can now access the Fairfax Staff Discount Rate and place an online advertisement to sell your car on drive.com.au at half price

Looks like everyone except me is going to own a bit of Fairfax!

Drive & NRMA have a new partnership, check it out. Drive is now providing the car buying search on mynrma.com.au

RIT’s Surround Sound does an a cappella version of Jonathan Coulton’s Code Monkey, complete with Mountain Dew & Tab hat

Triton’s Sawfish Underwater Harvester represents the first true arrival of viable marine technology in underwater forests.

With the line between so-called professional journalists and bloggers growing ever blurrier, a U.K. official has made a pitch for a voluntary code of conduct aimed at reining in the maverick blogosphere.

Steve Rubel on why the new web will kill off the page view as a valid measure of your site. I think this is already happening.

Rackspace has come up with the formula that they believe is the way to ascertain how perfect your website is

6 steps to optimising Firefox

Andrew Goodman interviewed Nick Fox, Google’s Senior Product Manager for Ads Quality, about the most recent AdWords algorithm change. Some highlights from Andrew’s interview include that Google seems to have two quality scores algorithms for (1) setting t

Karl Seguin has a code-behind test for hiring new programmers, to tidy up some functional but messy code

According to New York University professor of economics William Easterly, despite more than $2billion in foreign aid being given to Tanzania for roads, the roads did not improve. What increased was the bureaucracy, with the government producing 2400 repor

KEVIN Rudd is believed to have defeated Kim Beazley in the Labor leadership showdown in Canberra today - with Sky News reporting the result was 49-39 votes.

There are two reasons why it is desirable to do so. The first is for letting search engines see more of your content rather than the big portion of ViewState many sites have. The other is perceived rendering time

Replace Start -> Run with slickun

When you add or remove an interface element in a web page, you have to ask yourself, “What percent of the time do people use this element?”

1UP picks the worst gaming ads

Sweet. These were some of the best Starwars games to come out recently

Security researcher John Heasman released a paper this week describing a way to hide malicious code on graphics and network cards in such a way as to avoid detection and survive a full re-installation of the operating system.

Protesters overturned barriers and smashed vehicles in street battles around the Grand Hyatt hotel, where the summit was being attended by finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s richest 19 countries and the European Union.

Jeff Atwood on why software isn’t like construction

That is the law!

The latest version of Firebird is now out

The Link Alert Firefox extension displays customized mouse cursors in Firefox to let you know what a link is pointing you toward.