Christmas is over for another year and I'm left with a pile of loot from friends and family, some of it wonderful, some of it junque. Hey, nobody can say that we didn't do our part in propping up the ailing US retail economy. Here's a list of my haul, for your voyeuristic Xmas pleasure:

I also ordered my son this Soyo Dragon KT600 Barebone Kit. We made a deal to go halfsies on it. It's a lot better than my rapidly aging dual-processor, 1-GHz Pentium III with nVidia Quadro2 Pro graphics card, but I've still got a slight edge over him thanks to my fabulous flatpanel cinema display.