In case you haven’t seen [YubNub](http://yubnub.org), I encourage you to check it out. I saw it during the Rails Day contest and was just reminded again by [Micheal over at TechCrunch](http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/15/revisiting-yubnub/). He pointed to a great resource for [some of the more useful commands](http://yubnub.org/documentation/jeremys_picks#Whois) collected by Jeremy Hussell.
Symantec has been [caught putting a simple ‘rootkit’](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1910077,00.asp) type feature in the latest version of SystemWorks. Though the idea was much more benevolent than Sony’s recent attempt at a rootkit, it still stinks of a growing trend of commercial products that just don’t seem trustworthy anymore.
I switched from Symantec to Trend Micro last year, but only because the SystemWorks product seemed to really slow my PC down.
[(Link)](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1910077,00.asp)
“The road to next-generation Wi-Fi now appears to lead toward an industry-standard IEEE 802.11n specification, as the competing groups resolved their differences Wednesday.” - ExtremeTech (Link)
I bought my iPod about a two months ago. To date, it’s been an audio only experience, except for the silly fireplace video I pulled down just before the Christmas holidays. Don’t ask, I’m not sure I know why it was so intriguing now.
This article (The Last iPod Video Guide You’ll Ever Need) might get me inspired enough to actually experiment with the video side of things though.
“Gregarius is a web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator, designed to run on your web server, allowing you to access your news sources from wherever you want.”
I love the [bloglines service](http://www.bloglines.com), but lately I’ve been missing out on some of my feeds due to problems with the service or maintenance downtime of some sort. So, I decided to try out another service as an alternative. [NewsGator](http://www.newsgator.com) seemed an obvious choice, but the overall feel just didn’t fit right with me.
In my search, I found [Gregarius](http://www.gregarius.net), a free, web-based aggregator that you run on your own server. I’ve used [magpie-rss](http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/) before on the [PatrickWard.com](http://www.patrickward.com) site before but I never considered running my own feed aggregator for myself. Gregarius uses magpie, but does so much more.
It has a nice, ajaxian style that lends itself to a very efficient method of reading through the various posts. Coupled with a few of the plugins, such as “Double-Click to Read”, “StickyFlag”, and “Mark Feed as Read”, I’m now plowing through the feeds with a lot less effort than I ever did with bloglines. It’s certainly a lot more effort to set up, but the end result matched my needs better.
I’ve got a couple of plugins in mind that I might contribute soon myself.