If you are looking for ways to get updates & content from this web site (of course!) as well as many others, like your favorite news, hobby site, or blogs, you should consider downloading or using an online RSS reader.
In a nutshell RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it's a way to deliver content via a publish and pull system over the internet. In this case I would create a post like this one and if you have subscribed to this site it when you open your RSS reader (often called an aggregator) the reader will pull the content down to your PC. There are online readers as well that will also retrieve content from various sources.
Some good readers for download (they're free too):
Online readers:
Note: Newsgator also has a reader that you can pay for and download as well as an Outlook addin. Outlook 2007 includes an RSS reader, although at this point if you have lots of feeds I find it a bit to slow for my tastes, so I've stuck with RSS bandit. IE7 also has capabilities to read RSS feeds too.
Now, to get to that content...Depending on your reader, what you will do is use either File-> new subscription (or similar command) and enter the feed url into your program. Look for the feed button 
- by now it's everywhere.
Now you can get updates from each time something is published from your favorite sources. That's a great way to stay current.
