For a little bit of extra cash and a little bit of extra effort you can turn your one person PC into a two person PC.  It'll be great... tell your friends you have a main frame (and then feel old when you have to explain what that is).  Head over to BeTwin for the goods.

Here's the quickie details from Gadget Madness

Forget that low-profile dual-user system, take any Windows 2000 or XP PC, add a PCI video card (or just use a dual-head nVidia or ATI if you don't mind a performance hit), a USB keyboard and mouse and install BeTwin. Thanks to Windows' profile system and terminal services engine, as well as a bit of nouse from ThinSoft, you can have two people using the one PC. In fact, you can go up to five users if you can get hold of enough PCI graphics cards and USB hubs.  Unfortunately it doesn't like my laptop's dual-head adapter, but I will be trying this out on a machine as soon as possible.

... except Chinese food (well, the containers at any rate).

If you like computers but live in the physical world you need to check out Phidgets.  The development kit they provide allows you to easily create sensor and display interfaces for your PC.  They have a basic USB interface which plugs into sensors (force, light, motion, etc.) as well as USB interfaces for server motors, LED systems, LCD displays and (for you big brother types) RFIDs.

Now that you have all this cool USB hardware, you can create an computer control for it.  Phidgets are interfaced via their supplied VB APIs (other languages are rumored to be in the works).

... my dog doesn't understand sarcasm.

My week-long vacation gave me a chance to get caught up on all the unprocessed picture-a-day “digital negatives” I had sitting around.  My PAD gallery is now mostly up to date.

I'm back now from my family spring break trip, a trip where eight adults and six children get together somewhere warm and eat. 

At what point did my vacations become an exercise in killing time between meals?

Is it just me or is everyone else tired of fake news stories on 4/1?  Common now people.  It's been done.

Okay, it's official, I have too much to do at work too.

I've made a concerted effort to cut down on the number of projects at home, but it seems that there is a cosmic force at work with the sole desire to see me have a mental breakdown. 

So, how do I deal? 

Step one, find some clever quotes:

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978)

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Step two, remember I'm going to Florida soon to sit on the beach and do nothing at all.

Bah!  Whining is for four-year-olds. :p