I got some cool fan mail for my Sound Switcher...

Just a quick note to thank you for creating Sound Switcher. I was so over having to go into the Sound panel in SysPrefs every time I wanted to toggle between my internal speakers and my external DAC. You have made my weekend!

I finally found a cheap ($20) wireless router that has built-in QoS (quality of service) support, it's the Airlink AR430W. With QoS, you can set up rules based on service type (http, etc.) or by IP address, so you can say "traffic from computer X should always get priority over traffic from computer Y", or "game traffic should get priority over web traffic", etc.

I just set it up over the weekend, very straighforward, great features, good web admin tool, signal strength is better than my previous D-Link.

Fry's does special pricing on the AR430W from time to time, lowest I've seen is $20. I know people out there spend $50 or $60 on the Linksys WR54GT (or whatever) but I don't want to learn nerdy details about what patch, version, blah.. is required to enable this or disable that, and the Linksys seems to require this. I might be totally wrong, but the small amount of info I found suggested the Linksys does not offer plug-and-play QoS, whereas the Airlink does.

Atlassian just announced "personal licenses" for Jira, pretty cool. There are some limitations of course... no support, 3 users max. But otherwise you can set up and use your own instance of Jira, even Enterprise, all for free.

Well, after a few days of rumors, Lance is officially un-retired and will return to professional cycling in 2009. There's a blog entry with video clip on his website. He doesn't say much, so we don't know which team or any other details really. One rumor said he would rejoin Johan Bruyneel at Astana, but that has been denied by Astana team leadership. My guess is he's going to fund a brand new team centered around the LiveStrong foundation.