I have become addicted, in one short day, to Grid Wars 2.

It’s for both Mac & PC - beware if you are short on spare time. It reminds me of Robotron 2084… but with gravity wells and smarter enemies.

(Note that you need to set the input controls to Mouse unless you happen to have a couple of joysticks connected to your machine.)

Since I’m still using a Windows XP box for work – now, now, stop booing – I’ve added a few items to it to make it more bearable.

One nice addition is the Google Desktop Search sidebar. Now, if I can only get a hotkey to work for it then I’ll have a reasonable replacement for QuickSilver on the Mac.

The other item I’ve added is Cygwin – allowing me to have sane GNU (and other) tools at my disposal. I’m currently logged into a machine via openssh, with forwarded ports, using Cygwin.

Considering the stability improvement of XP this is an almost acceptable desktop. On a Windows box. How did that happen?

An interesting site with interesting tools for Windows: AnalogX