Clip.exe and the missing Paste.exe
One of the guys on #PowerShell in IRC was asking about how to get the contents of the clipboard in PowerShell, and after we had tried several different scripts, we realized that in Version 1, because PowerShell runs in an MTA thread, you cannot access the clipboard without creating a new thread (in STA mode). [...]
On user interfaces, and command lines
I just discovered ubiquity, a Firefox plugin from Mozilla labs which is really just a sort-of alpha concept preview of a new command-line interface for the web browser that they are working on. It’s extremely cool Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. You should watch the video, the stuff they’re doing already is [...]