On software

Two things:

1. Hamachi - easy-to-use software for pretending two computers are on a network when they’re really not, done by magic over the Internet. It’s secure too. I know this is no recent innovation but I just had to choose a username, a network name and password, and that’s it. Clients for Windows and Linux. I’m using it to access my music at home from work since my iPod’s hard drive may be wigging out.
2. reBlog - I’ve been open to a Bloglines replacement for awhile since their interface kinda sucks. I looked into running feed-on-feeds on a local Apache install and did so for a time but then stopped for reasons I can’t remember. Now there’s reBlog, an improved version of f-o-f with AJAX and all sorts of other neat stuff. The basic idea is that you go through your feeds, pick out the good stuff that gets added to your own feed, and archive the rest. There are still a few quirks but it has a lot of potential. There’s a post on how to set it up at Lifehacker.