Kattekrab has been fiddling around with recordmydesktop for a while, working on screencasts.
She was told about the key-status-monitor utility by heathenx, who already does Inkscape screencasts. This utility monitors and displays mouse button and key press status by reading /dev/input/eventX files and displays key presses and mouse clicks in a little window, which can be part of the screencast.
Many community websites run Drupal and use the event module to maintain a calendar of events that they organise or that are of relevance to their members. I help maintain the website for two such organisations, Linux Australia and LUV.
The event module has one slight drawback, it displays the number of hours, days, weeks or months remaining until an event.
On the weekend I acquired a shiny new PCI DVB card for use with MythTV.
The DViCO Dual Fusion 4 card I already had seems to have blown either one of its tuner chips or one of the USB bridges - and it's well and truly out of warranty - but the other tuner still works OK. Depending on signal strength and channel, that is. The ABC and Channel 7 generally worked OK, but the rest was iffy at best.