I just started to test the combination of Jetbrains Omea Reader and IMHO 1.0 Instant Blogger. Omea is good when you read rss feeds and newsgroup. I like the way you can search, create categories, views... For the moment I couldn't find an easy way to quickly se the thread I started or replied to for examples in all my newsgroups.

InternetActu.net » Niklas Zennström : “On ne peut plus faire payer pour des appels téléphonique”

I like his market vision.

Microsoft Notebook: Top exec shares business lessons

• It's often better to cannibalize your own business than to give someone else an opportunity to do it.
• In some situations, your biggest competition is yourself.
• One of the best ways to compete is to bet big on a "paradigm shift."
• When you dominate a market and you're looking for ways to grow, adjust your thinking to enlarge the potential market you're pursuing.
• Keep your mind open to unexpected opportunity.

Over the weekend I realized that my notebook became quite slow and was always reading something on the HD, even without any memory pressure. When I was to some music, starting an application was really corrupting the sound. So after some I realized that my Primary IDE controller went from DMA back to the old PIO mode. To solve this issue I reinstalled the the primary IDE port using the Device Manager, and after two reboots it went back to DMA and a acceptable speed.

You might find more information about that issue here: IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur.