Building blog communities and the Joys of X11

Spent some time this week installing and doing some inital config on a blog community for work, and less than a week into it we have a fairly prolific poster already. Check him out: big bald ActiveNick muses on Active Nick's Big Bald Blog.
I have to say, the software we went with to run the community was some good stuff, IMO; and I don't say that lightly, it runs on .NET/IIS and I am becoming more and more of a php/Apache fan. I think this bodes ill for my future as a Windows administrator.

Just finished checking out my former co-worker Ritesh's blog... I see the Gates are very much a topic of interest in Manhattan these days.
Another (current) co-worker who blogs (and has been doing it for a while) is Ack. Read his blog, and buy his book. I did and I regret nothing.

The Geekhaus continues to earn the name. Thanks to some earlier work I did trying to get X over SSH working, and the Fleck using the old brain and remembering to edit sshd_config, we now have (in addition to the UltraSPARC powered IceCast server running FreeBSD) an X terminal server in the living room. I'm actually typing this on it right now, using Cygwin/X and PuTTY on work's windows notebook.
Beyond the geek-cool factor of just having this in the house, I am glad one of us finally figured out why we couldn't get it working before... Now I have a secure terminal back to the office, no VPN required, no IPSec tunnel limitations, oh yeah. Let the good times roll.
I think I am going to have to play with this more. I like it a hell of a lot better than RDP, and it is definitely more secure. VNC is no longer welcome (not that I ever liked it anyway... remote control sans encryption always made me feel queasy).
I definitely need to get back into dealing with Unix and workalikes more, I can do a lot more with less money. And I like that idea.