Money Well Spent - Episode 14 is now available.
Today In Print - Episode 10: What is Variable Print? is now available.

Check out the latest episodes of Today in Print and Money Well Spent. After 10 and 14 episodes, it is still a lot of fun and has been a good opportunity to make new contacts. Check them out and hope you enjoy them.

VMware Player with your own Windows XP Professional Virtual Machine

This was submitted to digg sometime ago, I have finally had an opportunity to play around with it and must say that it was impressive and easy. The configuration requires a few tricks, but it is stable. Not bad for a free version of vmware. I have been using Microsoft's Virtual PC for the past year; however, this is a nice alternative.

This blog is dedicated to interesting and cool google maps/mashups! It is definately amusing.

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IBM / Lenovo has been implementing biometrics in the form of fingerprint readers. Currently they are including fingerprint readers on models within the:

• Thinkpad Z Series
• Thinkpad R Series
• [More]

Three months after Symantec bought SyGate Technologies, they have announced that they are discontinuing all SyGate products and support as of November 30, 2005.

There goes one of the great, free software firewalls for Windows :(

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This is a great list. Where do they come up with this crap? USB slippers! Gadget Spy » Gadgets » Most Pointless USB Gadgets.

I would really like to see a follow-up article identifying how many purchases have been made this year of each of these products.

Check out this news story about Best Buy: KOIN.com: Local News, Weather, Sports, Entertainment and Health

The way I see it is at a minimum Best Buy advertised a product and price that they did not intend on making available just to bring customers into the store. I find this incredibly un-ethical. I have always thought of Best Buy as a good store to visit. They have never needed these types of tactics to bring me into their stores. Why now? At best, it frustrates me enough to not boycott them, but rather shop at competitors first and them as a last resort.