To go out to dinner or a show with someone, I used to use BegForDate variation of this principle.

...ADVERTISERS
BegForPost is an automated system that takes the burden out of having to directly contact bloggers to have your product, service, or company promoted.
BLOGGERS
Find interesting topics and companies without having to sift through thousands of emails from Web 2.0 founders begging to have their lame-site plugged.
PUBLISHERS
Sorry, you're the "middle-man" and you have been eliminated. We have no API and prefer to work with bloggers directly....

http://www.begforpost.com/

did a quick search at DC but couldn't find it so posting this old favourite of mine.. DMEXBar 11, a toolbar extension for Windows explorer.

Features:
DMEXBar adds a new toolbar to the explorer with many new features like: Arrange explorer windows side by side, rename multiple files at once, quick change to favourite folders, quick create directory, split files, calculate directory size and some more...

but there is no website, the program is available at Simtel, so are new releases, the last update being on Nov. 2005..

Source: http://www.simtel.ne...product.php?id=59298

There are already plenty of Vista tips online, but here's a few good sites to start with:

- ItsVista's 30 Vista Tips
- Installing and Tweaking Windows Vista Tweakhound.com
- Lifehacker: Windows Vista upgrade power tips
- Windows Vista Usability Tips Steve Sinchak
- Windows Connected Vista Tips Index
- Tim Sneath Vista Tip blog
- Tech-Recipes' Vista Tips
- TweakVista has several pages of specific Vista tips:
— Usability Tips
— UI Customizations
— Performance Tweaks
— Software Tweaks
— Security Tweaks
— Vista Downloads
— Various Vista Links

Here is an interesting essay on software patents, and the business side of software development:

The most common is to grant patents that shouldn't be granted. To be patentable, an invention has to be more than new. It also has to be non-obvious. And this, especially, is where the USPTO has been dropping the ball. Slashdot has an icon that expresses the problem vividly: a knife and fork with the words "patent pending" superimposed.

The scary thing is, this is the only icon they have for patent stories. Slashdot readers now take it for granted that a story about a patent will be about a bogus patent. That's how bad the problem has become.

The problem with Amazon's notorious one-click patent, for example, is not that it's a software patent, but that it's obvious. Any online store that kept people's shipping addresses would have implemented this. The reason Amazon did it first was not that they were especially smart, but because they were one of the earliest sites with enough clout to force customers to log in before they could buy something. [1]

We, as hackers, know the USPTO is letting people patent the knives and forks of our world. The problem is, the USPTO are not hackers. They're probably good at judging new inventions for casting steel or grinding lenses, but they don't understand software yet.

http://www.paulgraha...softwarepatents.html

Nice page on Starting a non-profit organization..

What is the Free Management Library?What is the Purpose of the Library?
The Library provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and management of yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations. Content is relevant to the vast majority of people, whether they are in large or small for-profit or nonprofit organizations. Over the past 10 years, the Library has grown to be one of the world's largest well-organized collections of these types of resources.

This topic in the Library provides comprehensive advice and materials for anyone who is considering starting a nonprofit organization. The reader can use the free information in this Library topic, along with other Library topics that are referenced later on below

• Each of the links listed immediately below is a link to a section later on, farther down below, in this Web page.
• Starting Your Nonprofit
• First Things First -- What Do You Mean by "Starting a Nonprofit"?
• Feasibility Study -- "Should I Really Start a New Nonprofit?"
• Consider Fiscal Sponsorship (another nonprofit to support your tax-exempt status, finances, etc.)
• Do You Need a Lawyer to Start Your Nonprofit?
• Nonprofit Incubators (help new nonprofits by sharing facilities, equipment, etc.)
• Checklists to Help You Register Your New Nonprofit
• Table of Reminders for Registering Your New Nonprofit
• Something to Avoid: Founder's Syndrome

http://www.managemen.../strt_np/strt_np.htm

The Coding Horror does a good job of explaining why you should always post a license with your code. No matter how small it is. Even for cope snippits. He does a good job of comparing the most popular software licenses in his post "Pick a License, Any License".

Pick a License, Any License

BTW, This posting is licensed under the WTFPL License.

The license text: