“Millions going solo with cells” is a recent Wired article. I’ve been untethered from a traditional corded phone for a while now. Not only has my Internet access been available elsewhere for a number of years now (university ‘Net connection, ISDN, xDSL, wireless, cable modem systems, etc.), I have also found that I can do everything that I need (phone-wise) through my own wireless cell phone. It even comes with voice mail. I don’t see any reason in paying extra money a month to get the couple of calls I use my phone for at a limited access point (my home).

“Howl” is a Rendezvous implementation for Linux and Windows. (Rendezvous is Apple’s brand of Zeroconf.)

There’s another graphical RSS news reader available for Linux. It’s called Syndigator. Oddly enough, it’s using Perl-GTK+ and — GTK+ 1.2.x?!? Why not 2.x? Sigh.

Straw looks great; very similar in concept to NetNewsWire for the Mac (which rocks, btw). It’s written using Python and GTK+ 2.x, but it seems to have all sorts of wacky dependancies which makes it not so easy to install. There are some RPMs out there, but I really wish they’d use a normal naming scheme and such. This looks like a job for Fedora! *smile*