If you guessed that it yields a crazy fun night ahead, equipping my new motherboard with a 3.2 GHz Athlon X2  cpu, 4 gigs of  PC6400  ram all the while, consuming 6 yummy Coronas, YOU'RE RIGHT!

So I'm pokin around Roy Osherove's tool site and took a look at the desktop gallery.  There I found this image(take note of the windows theme and not the gay elf thing that's the background image):

That theme is wicked awesome.  I usually end up with the Silver color scheme that ships with XP.  Now I wanted to know where that comes from, and apparently it's some never before released theme, named Royale Noir, designed for Windows Media Center.  Here's the blog post describing how it came about and how to install it.  I intalled it and LOVE IT.  Check it out:

Regular expressions are hard, for me anyway.  Roy Osherove's Regulator kicks ass when you need a quick tool for testing out regex.

I just got done playing around with Regulazy.  Wow, how have I not used that before?? Crazy cool.  If you're regex challenged like myself that thing can help you out bigtime.