If you're not familiar with WhatTheTech.com, read on... My granddaughter was at the house over the weekend, and came to get me because of a message on my wife's computer. Turns out she got a popup from one of those freakin' places that say "Your computer is infected". She hit "No", but turns out the entire page was a picture with a link to install the stuff. I can't remember why it wasn't installing, maybe because of other protection I had, but I stopped that, and after a bit of work got rid of a...
I'm not sure how long twilert has been alive, and can't remember where I saw it, but someone was tweeting about it the other night. With twilert, you can set some search parameters, and get a daily email of any mention in the titterverse of those items. You probably wouldn't want to use a common word as a parameter unless you like scrolling through really long email, but if you're very specific, it works quite well. Since I can't get to twitter during the day, I know I've missed some replies or queries...
I know most of you are probably working in places that you can run new tools and toys. Not everyone is so lucky! I find myself working on .NET 2.0, IE6, VS2005, and Office 2003. I am able to run FireFox so that takes some of the sting out of IE6, and I can cope with most everything else in the interests of getting a paycheck every month. But... I would dearly love to be able to run OneNote, they tell me they don't have it for Office 2003, and I've been told that they aren't even going to start looking...