Recent developments in perturbative QCD

9 pages, 1 figure. Invited talk at the XIV International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2006), April 2006, Tsukuba, JapanA brief overview of some recently active topics in perturbative QCD, including: string-inspired recursion techniques at tree level; recursion approaches and automation of standard techniques for 1-loop calculations; the status of NNLO jet calculations; and non-trivial structures that appear in higher-order calculations