Go to www.MicrosoftStore.com and find the largest selection of Microsoft software, devices and hardware.  There are lots of reasons to visit the store:

· Immediate software download option with the largest download catalog of Microsoft titles

· Simple and secure purchase – all at your fingertips

· Most up-to-date selection of and information on your favorite Microsoft products including Xbox, Zune, Office, Windows and much more

Also checkout the Microsoft Store Contest where you can win weekly prizes.

The Microsoft Store at the .com domain is for the U.S., but the UK, Germany and Korea have their own stores, too. Coming soon are Japan, France, Spain and the Netherlands. Other countries will have stores come online throughout the year.

Well this could be a great job… or a damn scarey one! :-)

Domestic travellers leaving Melbourne Airport over the next six weeks will be asked to test new security scanners that can see through clothing.

The scanner uses a low energy X-ray to reveal any objects, metal or otherwise, under a person's clothing, including body features. The testing will be entirely voluntary during the trial, which is being undertaken to test how the new scanners would affect the flow of passengers through the security point.

Full article is here.

Police in Scottsdale, Arizona are using the micro blogging service to send out alerts on pertinent town information such as road closings, traffic problems, power outages and severe weather warnings. Although Twitter’s track record of periodically not working isn’t a good fit for disseminating critical information, more communities looking to get the word out may see Twitter as an easy to use broadcast system – I thought this was an interesting thing, and kinda cool…

Nick.