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Resurection of Evil (Doom3 expansion) was finally released for Linux. So I've started playing that. It certainly took them long enough :/ The game seems good so far and runs fine. The Ion gun seems to me to be a prety big rip off of the one from half life. Still, it's decently cool.
As for working, I've started reading up on xmlrpc for php and python and am going to write a xmlrpc driven ip tracker/dns updater. Thus anyone who wants to use the service can have their computers via cron jobs report their ips to a central repository to be accessed only by their owner with the right password, and optionally have dns configs updated. Should be handy.
I've stumbled upon Python Challenge. Looks like fun and given more time I'd like to play it. Presumably though you could do it with any language, although I assume the tasks are suited for python. I'm also slowly renewing my interest in learning ruby. Maybe :P.
I also put up some info on the old primes project and the last release because it is a useful resource if nothing else. http://www.mindstab.net/wiki/index.php/Primes
