We have £1,261.19 to donate to charity for the last quarter (Jan - Mar 08) of fundraising, and I need your help in deciding where to spend it (something I've never done here before, so bear with me if its a little disorganised! :) )

Recently with the protests in Tibet and Burma human rights is obviously high on people's agenda, yet with growing concerns in the UK about climate change I'm sure many want to assist efforts to reduce our impact or to support organisations campaigning for political energy behind the fight against global warming.

While distracting myself from dissertations, I finally got around to getting some of my photos and experiences in Vietnam together into a travel website - Vietnam Travels - its very much at the early stages but I think its got potential..

Our iPod Nano competition is now closed, with many thanks to all who took part. The winner is Christopher Ellis from London, and his iPod is now winging its way through the post to his door.

Don't forget to check back for more competitions in the future, and thanks again for taking part!

As a project for Christmas I have just set up a shop selling Vietnamese silk scarves and cashmere pashminas. Please take a look - there's an introductory offer of 20% off too - just enter the code INTRO20 into the checkout when you place your order.

• 45,000 square miles of forest are lost across the world each year (roughly the same sized area as Ireland)

• 60% of the world's major rivers have been dammed or diverted

• 34%: the amount by which the world's population has grown in the last 20 years

• 75,000 people a year are killed by natural disasters and more than 200 million are affected

I've finally got around to tidying up my code and making it ready for public consumption, and am proud to announce the release of my Shopwindow module for Drupal, making it a very quick and simple process to set up niche shopping sites using AffiliateWindow's data and Drupal's flexibility.

I've just finished a script that automatically updates the total amount raised by rectifi and displays it at the top of the screen. For money raised by searches the effect is immediate (go on, try it! :) ) and commission information for sales through the charity shop is updated every hour.

This means that very soon we will be able to list the commissions you've generated, the top shops by funds raised and our top contributing users - I just have to make the pages look pretty first!

Since July 1st every penny generated from shopping and searching on rectifi will go directly to charity - which is at least twice as good as any other charity shopping site we've found yet.

As I run rectifi as a volunteer, currently the only cost of the website is our hosting - roughly $90 per month. Now we have adverts from TextLinkAds on our front page bringing in $120 a month our costs are completely covered, meaning every penny you generate through shopping at rectifi will go to charity.

In the last few days I've been playing with an offering from Affiliate Window, one of the major advertising networks providing shopping search to rectifi. They have developed their own shopping search called ShopWindow, allowing websites to quickly and easily add a shopping channel to their websites.