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1. 
   Review - Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (x86)

   1.2 (Mar 9, 2005)

   Hard to rate S/W when it does its job, doesn't find anything evil, and just disappears. Is that good or bad?
   
   From: http://www.microsoft.com...wareremove/default.mspx
   
   Windows XP users may get the latest version through Windows Update. To have the newest versions automatically delivered and installed as
   soon as they are released, set the Automatic Updates feature to Automatic.
   
   Note The version of this tool delivered by Windows Update runs in the background and then deletes itself. If you would like to run this tool more than once a month, use the version on this Web page or install the version that is available in the Download Center.

2. 
   Review - Nero

   5.5.10.54 (Oct 6, 2003)

   Yep... the best. Version 5.5 gets a 5.5, and version 6 gets a negative 1. Version 6 is a bloated mess, and if you like getting lost in the multitudes of menus that it offers you, then fine. 6 is too complicated to use; that doesn't make it better and "feature rich" - it makes it a poorly designed swollen corpse of a product. Oh, and if some flamer jumps in on this conversation and tells me to go switch to a Mac, or that I'm a moron... go troll somewhere else, please.

3. Comment - Google Chrome in a runaway lead for browser performance supremacy

   5.5.10.54 (Oct 31, 2009 - 8:15 PM)

   Never say never. If there is one thing that is true about software, it's that it's always changing.

4. Comment - Averting another format war, this time in 3D TV

   5.5.10.54 (Jun 16, 2009 - 4:15 PM)

   I saw a 3D TV presentation about 4 years ago. It did not require glasses, but the field of view to get the 3D effect was somewhat limited - as you imagine, you had to be close to center, and there was also an ideal distance from the set to maximize the effect. The technology required an overlay of some sort in front of the TV screen, as well as running the media through a computer which had the company's proprietary software running on it. The programming was all advertisements for made-up products. While cool to look at, the ads were quite obtrusive and obnoxious, and I could see suffering from fatigue after viewing such content for any great stretch of time. I guess we'll see what the market says.

5. Comment - Up Front: Congress asks about AT&T iPhone exclusivity

   5.5.10.54 (Jun 16, 2009 - 10:29 AM)

   "Oh... boo hoo hoo... I can't use an iPhone because they don't have service here! I better call my Senator!"
   
   Get over it. Wait a few years and your carrier will have the iPhone. *I* don't have an iPhone, and I don't have ATT as a carrier either, yet I'm able to survive! This is crazy. We need our government working on important issues, not catering to some crybabies who can't get the same toy "everyone else" has... You've got to be kidding me!

6. Comment - Averting another format war, this time in 3D TV

   5.5.10.54 (Jun 16, 2009 - 10:23 AM)

   The technology behind 3D is a lot more complex than digital or HDTV, so I bet the number of possible methods and standards are too many to count right now. It took more than 20 years for digital HDTV to finally come to the US, and so many proposed standards were changed or dropped on the way to final agreement and deployment of technology. I'm thinking that here's no way all these companies are going to come to an agreement in a time frame as short as only a few years.

7. Comment - Colossal Patch Tuesday addresses 31 Windows, IE8 vulnerabilities

   5.5.10.54 (Jun 9, 2009 - 10:32 PM)

   Somehow I came up with 15.