Scatter Gather
While at GBC 07, George briefed me on his ultra interesting project, which is still a work in progress, but fully functional and extremely useful already. The idea is that people are increasingly looking for the latest in (news|information|commentary|...) for specific topics ( say, Apple or Linux ) but, due mostly to the proliferation and the wide range of blogs ( which is a wonderful thing ), its hard to get access to that kind of content. George's phidz.com service is an indispensable guide, which collects and organizes blog posts from an ever-growing number of sources into themes/topics. This allows you, for instance, to read the latest scoop on computer games by going to a single, constantly evolving - by means of adding more related sources into the mix - page. I love it.
Apple unveiled the updated MacBook Pro's today. The new 17" one ( 1920x1200, upto 4G RAM, ubber powerful Graphics card, LED backlit display... ) is absolutely dreamy. I wish I could somehow send them my 17" one along with whatever money sum is required for getting hold of that engineering and design marvel.
Speaking of Apple, I just pre-ordered Parallels 3.0. It won't ship until, presumably, WWDC though.
