This is a simple treat requiring four ingredients:
vanilla ice cream
chocolate syrup
triple sec liquer
sprinkles.

Take a microwavable bowl and add as much chocolate sauce as you can stand to the bottom. I didn't measure mine, but I squeezed on the bottle for a good 8-10 seconds.
Add a splash of triple sec - less if you're driving, more if you're not.
Microwave for 30-40 seconds.
Add your ice cream to the bowl.
Top with sprinkles.

Who else (besides (e:paul)) is going to the Geek Meet this Sunday? I'll be promoting the heck out of the new, improved Ronald McDonald House Web site ; I can't wait to meet other, technologically-motivated people from the area.

Ingredients
1/2 stick butter
3/4 c sugar, any kind
3-4 overripe bananas
1/2 cup plain yogurt
2 c ap flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
several shakes of the cinnamon jar
a dash of nutmeg
Steps
Mash together the butter and sugar; mash in the bananas and yogurt.
Add the dry ingredients until combined.
Bake in a 9x5 baking pan (though I'm trying an 8x8 pan - we'll see how it turns out) at 350 degrees for 45-60 minutes or until it passes the toothpick test.

We don't have cable, and on the whole I don't miss it. Sometimes I just need a few minutes of mindless entertainment, so now I go to Google Video.
The Ask a Ninja series is phenomenally good

Yesterday could have gone better. My computer at work died a quick yet painful death in the middle of the afternoon. When you hear a grinding noise, followed by a "Disk Read Error, Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to Restart" on a black screen, you are SOL. Goodbye, my 2-pound Portege, you served me well for the past 8 months.
Fortunately, the guys in IT may be able to recover some of my files, and all the important web files are on the server, so the Web site is safe. My email is on Outlook, so i only lost older files that I wasn't ever going to look at again. They had extra laptops, so in truth I was without a working computer for a total of 90 minutes, and for half of that I was in a meeting, anyway.
My programs, utilities, settings and other files, unfortunately, have perished.
All my bookmarks are stored in del.icio.us, so I didn't lose those. That would have been a tragedy.
I was able to reconstruct most of the programs and utilities I use in about an hour, but itmay be weeks before I get back to where I was just 24 hours ago.
Here's my list of essential (and non-essential) tools for doing my job and otherwise getting through the day.
Dreamweaver (I ordered Studio 8, but it's MX for now)
Adobe Photoshop 7
Adobe Acrobat
Firefox and related extensions, mainly the developer's toolbar
WinSCP
Textpad
Winamp and Streamripper
Google Toolbar
Adaware
Spybot
SmartFTP
Freemonitor for Google
Trillian

This will be useful for the next time a computer around me dies.

The moral of this story: back up your data often.