Various ... my my herculean task

It has bcom an herculean task to keep track of the current
technology updates... man so many new technologies..
very eager to learn but no time...the time is just not
enough to read these news/updates. Here are the various
new emerging techs:

1. Ruby on Rails replacing PHP/Java/.Net
2. Microsoft WPF code named Avalon & WPF/E promising cross-platform UI development.
Microsoft Atlas (ajax)
LINQ - Easing access to data model/DB

3. Microsoft Indigo
4. AJAX (many)
5. War of the Web (client/server technologies competing) - The best article!
6. Top 10 Ajax apps