If you're not following Raymond Chen's weblog The Old New Thing, then you don't know what you're missing; lot's of good stuff. There was an interesting entry about Plug and Play with PCI bridges as well as a comment about the USB Cart of death; funny.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!
