Mac OS X’s System Preferences has a “Universal Access” option. I few weeks ago I turned on “zoom” because I thought it would be phat to hit option-close-bracket to zoom in to stuff. Well, it is cool, but according to top(1) it takes up a bunch of CPU cycles just to have Universal Access watch your keystrokes. So, I turned it off. Maybe my battery will last longer now.
Have you ever heard of Core Wars? I’d found it a few years ago but had a hard time finding it again. Basically, you write some pseudo-assembly code, and your code dukes it out with other code. Koth.org has more information, and a core wars “hill” where your bots can fight. Apparently Core Wars was introduced in Scientific American in 1988, and the last language revision was in 1994.
I’m my church’s webmaster and have been doing a fair amount of work on the site lately. We’re hosted by Zettai, which is a really awesome web host. They specialize in Plone and Zope hosting.
I installed PloneCollectorNG, an issue-tracking system, to keep track of maintenance. We just put the sermons on-line. People with accounts can read the newsletters since 1999, in PDF format. The newsletters are making the Data.fs backups of Zope very large: around 70 mb.