Just grabbed Portable Thunderbird and installed it on the beat-up USB flash drive in my pocket. It looks like it will finally see some use now. I can walk up to any Windows PC with a USB port, plug in the drive, and run Thunderbird with no installation whatsoever. It even saves my articles back to flash, without ever touching the hard drive. I don’t trust the drive enough to handle my actual e-mail, but it’s perfect for reading RSS news.

On a related note, this Gizmodo article discusses a flash drive sold with Portable Firefox and Thunderbird pre-loaded. Now THAT’s simple enough for Aunt Tillie to use.

Hmmm, wonder if I could make a Portable Perl?