Self Notes

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Taking time to eat my lunch and check the aggregator, and noting things I want to deal with later:

Firefox 0.9 released.

Windows XP SP2 Release Candidate 2

Beyond Bullets -a PowerPoint blog that Scoble pointed to.

Moving .PST files

Geek News Central is talking about a wireless device that you can hook up a hard drive to. Sounds kinda cool. Speaking of Geek News Central, one of the editors suffered a serious spinal injury recently. I’m sure you all join me in wishing Todd the best for a quick, and full, recovery!

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