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I have been mulling over what to do with the rest of my life again LOL. This is at least the 2nd or 3rd time I have done this. But as a lot of you know I am a digg.com fanatic ( I think I have broken 1000 stories I have dugg). But recently I realized the majority of the stories that interest me are Unix/Linux and Web2.0. That realization combined with my wife and great friend graduating from college and needing web sites has brought this portion of the tech world back into focus. If you check out my del.icio.us feed you will notice this convergence also. I really like all this web2.0 content. Digg, Gmail, del.icio.us, flickr, are just a few sites that can name. Pretty much the software as a service model that the web has become during this web boom is awesome. A lot of the things that were promised during the dotcom boom and bust functionality-wise are now coming to fruition. There are 3 reasons that I can see for this:1.) Broadband - back in the early-mid 1990's you were lucky if you were running a solid 19.2kbps dial-up connection.2.) Efficiency - a lot of the dotcoms in the 1990s were all about the flashy office space and huge amount of staff. A lot of the stories of the web2.0 companies are 2-10 employees or so it seems3.) New tech - the coming together of web programming technologies and frameworks. AJAX, ruby on rails, jscript, perl (back with a vengence), vb.net,... There was some interesting technology back in the dotcom era also, one that comes to mind was DHTML (very Internet Explorer-centric)Alright enough gushing about web-goodnessThe Geek has spoken...