If you ever wanted to install WordPress on your flash drive, here are two tutorials that explain how to do it:

1) http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/usb/

2) http://ralph.fm/2007/03/08/how-to-install-wordpress-on-a-usb-stick/

Update: Once the local version of your blog is ready to go live, you can easily migrate it to your web server. Andrew Strojny’s tutorial, Convert A Local Wordpress XAMPP Installation Into A Live Site explains the steps involved.

This fantastic Cauldron Remake. was featured on the RetroRemakes blog recently.

Cauldron is a combination of side-scrolling action, platforms and mazes and plenty of old hags (you start off with 9 lives) in which you have to collect ingredients so that you can defeat an evil pumpkin. You can only land (and take off) in clearnings (i.e., in between trees and caves).

By the way, you can also download one of the original versions of the game from Commodore to play on your emulator. Cauldron and Cauldron 2 are available at www.c64g.com.

I was looking for a guitar tuner this week and found this site: http://www.yellow-gold-soft.com/.

It has a Guitar Tuning Fork and several other music-related free software such as

• Tonometer to tune a variety of musical instruments
• Musical Examiner to train your musical ear
• Metronome
• And a little Flash-based Virtual Piano

Here’s a portable game for the weekend for racing fans: G-Speed. It’s spaceship racing fun with plenty of tracks to choose from. Check out all the screenshots on the site!

Everybody knows you can’t have enough Galaxian games in your collection!

I’ve already featured a few on this blog, such as the king of all Galaxian remakes: Minionsoft’s Galaxian and an excellent creative twist on Galaxian called Carax. And now…there’s another remake!

The RetroRemakes blog pointed out a brand spanking new Galaxian game from acoders.com called…Galaxian 2007! Classic Galaxian game play, cool arcade sounds and with some cool power-ups additions…if you can catch them! One gives you a shield, another one gives you a three-way shot and the others I’m not sure; those power-ups are evasive!

Windows only and 1.1 MB.

Time to upgrade your development skills with a new language? Why not try Ruby On Rails? Here’s a complete and portable Rails development environment called InstantRails, although you might want to add an IDE (I used Aptana’s RadRails, but it’s not portable).

Instant Rails contains everything you need to start coding, including Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL. It even includes PHP, in case you want to learn that too!