I broke down and read Getting Things Done (GTD) in February (after letting the book sit unopened on the couch for a month). When I finished, I was determined to adopt the popular organizational method. I searched for a solid software tool to track projects and next actions, and found dozens of desktop-oriented applications to choose from. One of the GTD axioms is to collect all of your tasks, projects, and lists in one place; since I regularly use four PCs and laptops and a mobile phone, finding a GTD-aware tool that would run as a Web app was paramount. I settled on Tracks; it is open source, easy to use, and accessible from anywhere.

With a hearty "enough waffling about it already. 'Just do it!'" Linus Torvalds has pushed out the 2.6.21 Linux kernel, a little more than two months after the release of the 2.6.20 kernel. This release includes the Virtual Machine Interface (VMI)...