I'm very tempted to sign up as a judge for the Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship. That mouthful of a name is San Jose's regional science fair for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. I was fortunate enough to attend the ISEF twice while I was in high school, and I'd love to get involved in science fairs again. While I might mentor someone eventually, the easiest way to get involved right now is as a judge.
Of course, in San Jose I'm sure they have their fill of computer science judges already. We'll see if I can convince them to fit another one in. I'll have to wait until I have a phone number, though -- they understandably require one of those on the form, and I don't know what mine is yet.
I've finally figured out how to get NetNewsWire Pro pointed to my weblog -- it was guessing the wrong URL for Movable Type's XML-RPC script -- so I'm now trying to use it to post things.
Even if this works, I'm not sure I'll stick with it. To me, reading RSS feeds and posting to my weblog are two separate things, and I'm not sure I see the benefit of trying to shoehorn both of them into a single application. I can see how it'd work well for someone like Dave Winer, who posts very little that isn't a reference to someone else's weblog, but I'm far more likely to link to newspaper stories or random web pages than something I saw in an RSS feed.
In any case, it's software from Brent Simmons, so I'm sure it'll be good when it's done. It's clearly an early beta now, though, and that shows. But I'm happy to play with it and do my small part to help him make it better.
I think I've decided to get a Roomba after I move. I keep reading good reviews for it, and anything that can actually get me to vacuum more than I currently do has to be a good thing. The idea of turning on the vacuum before leaving for work in the morning and coming home to clean carpets is just too cool to pass up.