I’ve posted four new reviews in Restaurant Reviews: City Pub (Redwood City), Pasta Pomodoro (San Mateo), Uva Bar & Cafe (Anaheim) and Granville’s (also Anaheim).

Study: Women’s Hands Cleaner Than Men’s

Men are dirtier than women. So scientists confirmed by spying in public restrooms, watching as one-quarter of men left without washing their hands.

The worst offenders were at an Atlanta Braves game.

In contrast, 90 percent of the women did wash up.

This is why I use the paper towel I’ve just dried my hands with to open the door. I don’t want to touch the door handle with my bare hands!

Opera nixes banner ads in free version | CNET News.com

The latest free version of Opera Software’s namesake browser will be available without an advertising banner.

With version 8.5 of the Opera browser, which was released Tuesday, the company said that it has removed banner ads from its free edition. Until now, Opera customers had the option of paying to eliminate the ads and receive premium support.

There’s never been a better time to try Opera! It installs and uninstalls cleanly, so if by some odd chance you don’t like it you can always go back to whatever you’re using now.

Virtual Dimension is a virtual desktop manager for Windows (2000 and XP). It blows the pants off the MSVDM PowerToy and it’s equally free (GPL). On the relatively small screen of my laptop, the ability to have multiple desktops is invaluable, and Virtual Dimension is a good and stable implementation.