If you get a chance I thoroughly recommend the movie Requiem for a Dream, which you can watch online for free. It's an Oscar-nominated story of four people who become too heavily involved with and ultimately pay dearly for their growing addictions.
I've never seen our 4yo so eager to tidy up than today when he, on his own, started tidying up because his cousin was coming to visit. We'll keep that one in mind for the future!
The greatest system on the market for running Ruby on Rails apps, mod_rails aka Phusion Passenger, has hit v2, their first non-beta / release-candidate release. Great stuff. Go forth and sudo gem install passenger.