Fuel Cells Around The Corner?

BBC has an interesting article on the fuel cell prototype laptops. The good news is the fuel cell runs the laptop for 10 hours on a 100 ml of methanol. But wait before you start stocking up on your methanol cartridges... the bad news is that the prototypes are the size of a liter bottle of water and weigh about the same.

When I first heard about this on NPR a few weeks back and this one, I had this vision that the fuel cell laptops would just have this small methanol cartridge doc on the side. Ah, Imagine just stocking up on 4 cartdriges to run my laptop for a week without needing to plug in once! I bet we will see it some day....

Skype Out Free in the US and Canada

I tried the new skype out free service to call from my computer to a regular phone when it was announced on May 15th. The person I was calling complained that there was a lot of echo over the phone and that he found it distracting. Since I was using the built in microphone, I suspect that if I bought a headset that would solve that problem.

Add Email Notification to Your Blog

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have set up a blog for the town of Bethany (www.bethany-ct.com/blog).

There was an editorial on one of our local weekly papers here in town that talks about needing to update the methods of communication in town. Since RSS probably won't become a mainline tool until the next version if Internet Explorer comes out, I think it would be a good idea to add an email subscription link.

I use Feedblitz through my feed through feedburner for this blog, but I figured I would try to find other solutions as well.
I found blog alert (http://shootthebreeze.net/blogalert/) that looks kind of interesting. It has a pretty basic interface for the signup screen with a bunch of google ads. I have signed up. It will be interesting to see the format of the email.

I will do some additional snooping around, but if anyone else has a