This looks to be a terrific new tool for all web developers. Firebug allows you to inspect the contents of pages, scripts, css and DOM. I've only perused it for a few minutes but the possiblities are staggering. I sure could have used this before! Most interestingly perhaps is the javascript debugger that allows you to set breakpoints. Sweet!

I've been participating in asteroid occultation measurements for a while now. To facilitate the creation of maps of the events I created a new website that uses dynamic data rather than static to display events. In the process I learned a few things about how to automate windows applications using Perl (check http://sourceforge.net/projects/winguitest/ ), creating dynamic Google Maps using AJAX and using MySQL with ASP.NET. I also learned a lot more about operating winoccult, a program that calculates and displays occultations of stars by asteroids.

Check it out at http://occult.tungstentech.com.

SD Time's Linkapalooza alerted me to this site which provides 12 standard CSS templates to quickly create a professional appearing website. I think we'll all agree many sites could use a smidgen of professionalism :) Check them out!