Looks like a common design may finally be coming to Google. They have hired Doug Bowman on as Visual Design Lead. A bit of irony here, as he worked on the redesign of sites such as Lycos and HotBot.
Personally, I think Google should look at Andy Rutledge’s work.
Farrah and I went to see X-Men 3 yesterday. I was a little disappointed that they changed some of the characters, but overall I thought the movie was pretty good. I wrote a bit more about it here.
Opera 9.0 Beta 2 has been made available for testing. Those of you that have been running the weekly(-ish) builds for Opera 9.0 will find that Beta 2 carries the same build number as what was made available last week.
Just wanted to (re)post about a new Technology Related News & Support Forum that is online and looking for beta testers. — Actually, it’s been online for a while now, but someone (not to mention any names, Sykocus) complained that I didn’t say anything about it.
What I need right now, is people to register at the site, and use it like they would any support forum. Ask questions, post replies, and engage in discussions. Through the normal use of the forums, you may encounter bugs, glitches, problems, or otherwise something that doesn’t work. If you come across anything like that, let me know so I can fix it. That’s all there is to it. 
The forums are available at forums.techrelated.com. See ya there.
A new weekly build for Opera 9.0 was posted last Thursday. According to the team, Opera 9.0 Beta 2 should be out soon.
C|Net News has done a review of Web 2.0 Email Applications, putting Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo against each other.
A new update to XFire was released yesterday. Just log into the client, and it will automatically update.
For information on what’s changed, see the release notes and the technical notes.
The Google Notebook service is now live on Google Labs.
When you first try and use the service, you’ll be given the ability to download a IE plugin or a Firefox extension. This allows you to create notes about the page you are viewing, or highlight text on the page and copy it to a note. You can also create and edit notes right from www.google.com/notebook/.
More information is available in the Google Notebook Overview and the FAQ.
I wonder if we’ll ever see an Opera Widget for this.
Internet Explorer and Firefox users can take a sneak peak at the redesigned Yahoo Homepage.
Not a bad design, but still more crap than I care to see. Also, the page doesn’t validate to HTML 4.01 Strict.
Opera rolled out two “weekly” builds last week. The first one came on Thursday with the next one a day later. Oli says they are working hard on Beta 2.
Info on the latest build is available here.