Playing geek for a bit
I'm really not the geekiest software developer ever.  At SuperHappyDevHouse events, I don't really fit in (though the whole "I write enterprise software in Java" thing doesn't help either), and in general I just don't do that many geeky things (at least not anymore).  I've been trying to have more fun with programming outside of work, though, since I think it's good for me to remember that it should be something fun and creative, which it just doesn't always manage to be at work.  I started reading through the online version of Dive Into Python at the last dev house, so I've kept working through that.  I'm toying with the idea of building some simple app in Python as a way to learn it better, potentially with the help of a couple of other people who are interested in learning, so I spent some time tonight poking around the web looking at different web/source control hosting options, reading up on git (the source control system originally written for the Linux kernel and now used to host a number of open source projects including Ruby on Rails), and trying to get some Linux solution to run on my Windows desktop.

I'd read an article about coLinux a few weeks back and was interested; I thought about trying to get a VMWare image up and running instead, but that seemed like more work and coLinux seemed like a cool idea.  So I tried installing andLinux, and so far so good.  There were a few hiccups, but otherwise it seems to go well.  It's a little weird, since I'm used to using the whole Linux stack, so just having random Linux programs running alongside my Windows programs is odd.  Very cool, though.  If you're a Windows user that's wanted to try out Linux, it's not a bad way to go.