With the upcoming release of Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005) scheduled for some time this Summer, Microsoft has already been busy working on the next 2 versions: Orca and Hawaii. "Microsoft officials said that while Whidbey will help developers target the upcoming Longhorn operating system, Orcas will be the version of the tool set that will enable developers to ride what the company calls the Longhorn wave and tap the new features of the operating system.

Saw this today… Google has added a portal-like (www.google.com/ig) page. Seems very simplistic yet contains just enough info… Will set it as my home page from now on.

Get your fresh copy of Portable Firefox 1.0.4 here. Indispensable for any “geek on the go.”

Incredible! Here I am waiting outside my wife’s doctor’s office, bored out of my mind when I decide to check if anyone had left me an open Wi-Fi AP. Much to my surprise, I found 8 completely available and am bored no more! =)

Received this email today: Register for Microsoft’s private viewing of Star Wars Episode III Date: May 20, 2005 Time: 2pm (check-in starts @1:00pm – no earlybirds!) location: Loews Theatres at the Loop in Methuen 90 Pleasant Valley St., Methuen MA, 01844 , 978-738-8942 RSVP Today! Call 1-877-MSEVENT (673-8368) using Event Code: 1032275606 This is a special invitation-only event. Space is Limited. Non-Transferable. One ticket per person (Registration list will be matched to invitation list)

I didn’t know you could do all of these with rss!!! Wow!!! Read the original post here. Get the news as it happens from multiple news sources An RSS feed reader is an aggregator of numerous feeds from news sources (and nearly every major paper and TV news network has RSS feeds today). But now there are even feeds that aggregate other feeds. The new RSSmix.com lets you combine all the news source RSS feeds into one single feed so you get news as it happens.