More on the birthdays mentioned yesterday: Raven's Chris Foster's birthday was actually last week (I mis-read a .plan update of his from last year I came across which was where I caught the bit about old Nick Copernicus' birthday. Turns out yesterday is also the birthday of Ritual texture artist Andrew Collins, as well as the one year anniversary of the release of Quake II CTF, and the Quake II point release.

I've had a few recommendations to check out SyGate from SyberGen Home, and I have been using it for a while to get one machine on my home network to connect to the Internet through another machine. It's worked great for surfing, etc., but the acid test came yesterday when a friend dropped by and we both were able to play games over the 'net with no special configuration. And the whole thing runs without any special software on the client machine. Just set up SyGate on the host machine, configure, and you're good to go. Highly recommended.