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This is a great initiative from the troops over at Sitepoint. Basically, they are selling 5 books for the price of 1! You get the 5 books as PDF downloads – but the great thing is that 100% of the sale proceeds goes to the Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal.

So I encourage everyone to get behind this one – its important and easy way to help!!!

Check out the actual blog ontry on Sitepoint’s site here.

I have been using Windows 7 for a few weeks now. On Parallels on my Macbook mind you – and I am really digging it!! I like to not think of myself as a Mac fan boy, but I have been really disappointed with a lot of stuff that has come out of Redmond for the last 5 years.

But I have to admit that Windows 7 is actually looking, and feeling really stable and not at all like a mess that Vista was (and is). But I do have to admit something, and that is the Aero look and feel. I know a lot of people are loving it, but it just doesn’t feel right to me. It feels like I have to be careful how I use it, as it may break!

Although this seems to have improved in Windows 7, I still get that, “careful how hard you click the mouse on that button” feel. Its just not as polished as it should be.

And I have to admit, that I got the same feel from Aqua when it was released way back when on Mac OS X 10.0. But it is even worse with Aqua. I never really liked the original Aqua either, its kind of tacky. Just feels like a bunch of Engineers tried to be UI guys and just didn’t nail it.

But I do like some of the new look and feels that have been going on with some of the enterprise products and new web sites are really looking good from Microsoft. I can actually start to say that I am really am liking what the Microsoft guys and gals have been up to. Good work and keep it up. Cupertino just might have to start playing catch up one day. Not any day soon, but one day