The best rss reader in my opinion is Rss Bandit. It has a very good interface and you can have it running as a minimized service (like MS-Outlook). I use it as my primary blog reader. Rss Bandit is also Sourceforge.net project.

I’ve now moved my Eastern Cape blog away from my Eastern Cape Accommodation site to a proper Eastern Cape Treasures page on Blogger. The blog basically just has a lot of pointers to Eastern Cape Treasures. Not real treasures, but off the beaten-track kind of thing. Well worth a read if you are looking for…

I’m trying my utmost to up my freaking site’s page ranking on google, but without success. I’ve tried all the “recognised” stuff, but google is still not indexing my site. Aaaaargh!

I’ve recently downloaded this Web Log Analyzer. So far I’m quite pleased with it. It has real useful stats as well. It is NOT opensource though.

Check out this very handy Internet telephony app. You can “phone” PCs or Phones. Really good international rates as well.

I’ve just starting using Keepass. Awesome tool! Does anyone know if there are any issues around security?

I’ve just officially switched to Mozilla. The new release is superb!

I’ve just started using MySql on my Eastern Cape website and I’m so stoked with it. Just as quick as SQL Server (and up to 6 times faster than MS-Access), extremely scalable and it is free. Contrary to popular belief it also works really well with .NET. There are a couple of free admin tools…