Here's a great program for automatically downloading pictures from a digital camera to your computer. It can do things like rename the files, move them to a directory structure based on the year, etc. It sounds like it should work really well, I'm going to try it this weekend.
On Tuesday the 12th I agreed to embarass myself in front of a group of people for my art. I'm giving a quick talk on Fusebox a web development code framework I've mentioned before. It's going to be short and hopefully not too boring.
The next version of Windows, dubbed Longhorn, will change its permissions system to be more UNIX-like. Between this and the new shell scripting system it is slowly becoming much more UNIX-like. Pretty funny, given that they lauded for years that their way was best.