Need to run both IE 6 and 7 in order to test your sites? For that matter, you’ll probably want Firefox 1.5 and at the same time as well. Well, the IE blog announces the release of an Virtual PC hard drive with an authorized Windows XP image and IE 6 installed. They also provide the previously announced free VPC install. There is a catch, it only lasts 4 months (treating us to a wonderful April fools).

Interesting to see that at one point, the SmartFilter URL filtering software blocked 3 key Yahoo and JavaScript related blogs (with reason in parens): Simon Willison (malicious content) YUI blog (spam urls) Jack Slocum (spam urls) I asked for Willison’s and Slocum’s to be whitelisted and the YUI blog started working this week without a request, so maybe Secure Computing updated the blacklist. Is this some conspiracy to suppress the adoption of the Yahoo User Interface Library?

If I had to pick only one application to have installed on my pc, it would be Firefox. I live in it for a good chunk of the day, and am extremely hesitant to install anything else (with the exception of development servers and some programming tools). That’s the power of the web, you can do almost anything in a browser now days. So, it was with great excitement that I updated to the new Firefox release a couple weeks ago.

So, Wesabe launched today. I’ve been waiting for this since I first saw Marc’s post on the Radar. As you may know I run a personal finance site, NetworthIQ, so I’m always on the lookout for related ideas and competition. I’m also happy to discover other people thinking about how to improve the way we manage our money. Wesabe is a compelling product that I myself will try out. Features such as tips and goals are nice community features that are also slated for NetworthIQ one of these years (though my vision of these is a bit different).

By far my most popular post here was the Tracking Web 2.0 recap of all of the various blogs and listing sites. I went back and cleaned it up a bit creating two separate lists. Also, because I’m starting to have fun creating different subscription lists, I created an opml file to kickstart anybody wanting to start following the Web 2.0 world. Top Web 2.0 Blogs (opml file) If you don’t want to worry about adding subscriptions, a great resource for keeping up on Web 2.