I don't remember where I heard about it, but there's a hard disk monitoring utility that I've tried on on two of my computers. It's very useful--it monitors drive temperature and SMART status. The temperature was something I was worried about with a new external SATA drive I had purchased a while back. I was using the 500GB drive to store and access video files during encoding for DVD authoring. So, getting the best performance from the drive without frying it was very important. Anyway, HDDlife...

A while back I was messing around with Yahoo Widgets. I thought it might be helpful to have a schema so that my XML editor would help with auto-complete and validation. As far as I could tell, there wasn't an XSD for the widget format. So, I wrote my own. This one isn't complete, but it's a good start for someone who is looking for a starting point. View it at http://monoport.com/1556, an ad-free pastebin site...