This doesn't really require any setup from me.  It's a copy of Dr. Randy Pausch's famous 'Last Lecture'.  Dr. Pausch died July 25, 2008 of pancreatic cancer after recording this strangely uplifting talk on achieving one's childhood dreams.

Starting today, the Orwell Prize site will be posting Orwell's diaries in real-shifted-time; 70 years after they were written.  The diaries should be an interesting look into the personal life of an important author.  I'm curious to see what his day-to-day life was like, having heard he was something of an oddball.

Here's another article on George, written in commemoration of his hundredth birthday, and recognizing his elevation to iconic status by pointing out the inverse proportionality between reverence for the man and readership of his works.  Interesting article.  It also includes information on brewing the perfect cup of tea.  Now my life is complete.

Enjoy...

The other day a friend and I were discussing blog and forum software, and whether there were any good combination blog/forum products out there that were reasonably priced.

We'd both tried CommunityServer and found it was not really appropriate for our needs, and neither of us knew of any other prominent alternatives.  The reasoning for our discussion was that we'd both noticed a potential for dual-use web sites offering both blog and forum features; sort of a "here's what I think...discuss amongst yourselves" kind of an approach.

He is off now investigating the hazards of writing his own forum software, but while we were looking into ways to potentially allow single sign-on between BlogEngine.Net and [insert your favorite forum software here], we noticed something interesting...More...