Well that was a lot of work!
OK, so they have changed the Facebook interface. I for one welcome it, its very nice and removes a lot of the clutter for me. However, one of the changes I don’t like is the removal of the friends statuses on the right. I used this as a quick way to see what my friends are upto and how their feeling etc.
So, Vista sidebar for the win. I downloaded an RSS feed reader sidebar gadget (this one in fact) and had a look. It is a nice gadget, lots of features. One thing that did bug me was it wanted to scroll all the time. This is a bit annoying, so, coding skills for the win, I took that feature out and while I was there added a pretty Facebook logo to each status to replace the RSS one that was there.
I love it when you can just change the applications to suit your own needs!