Katy Pearce of Burlington (and of blogrel), is guest blogging this week at lifehacker. Here’s how the site explains itself: “Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time.  Don’t live to geek; geek to live.” Cool.

Katy also tipped me off about the Burlington Telecom Beta Tester program. If you haven’t signed up yet, and you’re in the service area, you might want to think about it. I’d sign up, but I live in Constructionville. Er, I mean Winooski.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...