The morning Reboot has a nasty headcold, but soldiers on: * The new version of Blogger now supports using a custom domain for serving your blog. From the Blogger Buzz [announcement][1]: "If you already own a domain named, say, mysite.com and want your blog to be served at that address instead of at a blogspot.com address, we can host your blog on that domain for you — for free." [1]: http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/01/blogger-custom-domains.html "Blogger supports custom domains" * Over at CES, Microsoft and Ford [announced an in-car communication and entertainment system][2] which will be available starting later this year. Check out the [Gadget Lab][3] blog to stay abreast of all the CES happenings. [2]: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/298729_msft07.html "Microsoft and Ford announce deal" [3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ "Wired's Gadget Lab" * PC World takes one for the team. Editors at PC World signed up for 31 different online services and then tried to cancel them. They then wrote up the [resulting hassles][4] so you can avoid them. [4]: http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128206/printable.html "Just Cancel the @#%$* Account!" * Yahoo is [rebuilding Yahoo Messenger][5] specifically for Windows Vista. The new software will reportedly be released as a public beta in Q2. [5]: http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6147793.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "New Yahoo Messenger Previewed at CES" * And finally, my personal favorite headline of the day: "[NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it][6]." [6]: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/07/mars.life.ap/index.html "CNN: NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it"