A few items that have been gathering dust here while I bang away on the crawler.

• Ever wonder what you could do with a terabyte of really fast storage? Check out the Tera-RamSan. I hope you have a big budget, though. The unit is undoubtedly expensive, and it requires 2,500 watts. That’s some heater!
• Speaking of faster mass storage, several manufacturers (Samsung and SanDisk, among others) have announced or demonstrated flash replacements for laptop hard drives. These aren’t new, but soon we’ll be seeing 160 GB and possibly larger drives. They’re not exactly cheap, either, but the idea of a solid state “disk drive” for my laptop is very attractive.
• Not as much call for this sort of thing as there used to be, but sometimes there’s no substitute for a good bit twiddling hack. Thanks to David Stafford for the link.
• Got a crazy idea? Google has $12 billion dollars and an acquisitions chief who’s looking for “ideas that are ‘really crazy.”
• If you’re looking for WordPress blog templates, check out the Theme viewer. You can search for themes based on a wide variety of criteria, and see them on a sample blog before downloading and installing. As you might expect, some work better than others. I really like this current theme (Tiga), because it includes an HTML interface for changing colors, column widths, field heights, fonts, etc. It’s very nicely done.