I came across this today, it looks pretty cool:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

It runs on Windows XP and newer, and requires .Net 2.

Anything that makes XML documents easier to work with is good for me.

Open source Javascript IDE - still early beta:

http://www.aptana.com/

Anyone used it?

This caught my eye on this site

http://www.php-editors.com/

They have an animated favicon. Not sure on browser support (they do seem to specify a fall-back) but I thought it was neat.

I was thinking about how it would be nice to know who it is who harvests email addresses from web pages. I mean, it's easy enough to try to get info about who sends the spam, but what about the dudes up the food chain who sell those email addresses. Here's my plan.

On pages generated by PHP (or other server-side languages), I put the following code:

I am using Windows 2000 and the EOLAS/ActiveX patch for IE6 is not yet available for this OS, so I am wondering if anyone has done any playing around with getting Flash and other ActiveX controls to be activated automatically on a web page in a patched IE6 ? And if someone has a patched IE6, can they look at this test page and tell me if it is indeed inactive when loaded.

http://bobbymac.net/flashtest/test.php