There isn't a lot of news at the moment, and I'm enjoying my week off. The only productive work I have to do is to get together a rough set of slides for my dissertation defense next quarter, but that shouldn't be too hard since all the information I need is already in my nearly-complete dissertation.
The rest of the time I'm spending with my wife and playing Might and Magic III. I played MMII several times through but never got the sequel, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Once I have some free time on my hands (i.e., I'm done with school) I think I might write a hybrid of MMIII and Shining Force 2, another of my all-time favorites. I'll write them in C# so they're platform-independent, and it'll give me a good opportunity to learn Gtk#.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll be posting more this week, but it probably won't be as mind-blowing as usual.
I completed the first Shining Force back in the day. It was one of the few good RPG's on the Genesis since the SNES dominated that genre in quantity as well as quality.
I know Shining Force 2 is great, but I never finished it so I might have to emulate it sometime.
Right now, Half Life 2 is gracing my XBOX.