My hosting service, DreamHost, finally upgraded their Ruby installation from 1.6.x to 1.8.2. This should allow me to play with all the recent Ruby software, including the Ruby on Rails web framework, which I've heard great things about....

The Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project has released WTP Milestone M4 yesterday. It was built against the Eclipse SDK 3.1M6 release, which was released about a month ago. A few months ago, I tested WTP M3 in conjunction with Eclipse SDK 3.1M5, but it wasn't quite there yet......

I just set my Linux box up as an iTunes server. After seeing how easy it was to get this working (not least because of Gentoo's excellent package management), I'm almost annoyed at myself for putting this off for so long....

Today I went to the Apple Store and bought an AirPort Express Base Station. I had been looking for a good way of listening to MP3s in the living room, and after my boss mentioned how we was using an AirPort Express and a set of PC speakers to stream music into his kitchen, I decided to give it a shot....

I have not tried it yet, but according to this article, Podcasting is really taking off and supposedly already reaching 6 million adults in the US. For those of you who are not familiar with this term, here's the Wikipedia definition for "Podcasting"....