Back at the time, I actually purposely avoided signing up because it was right at the time that web accounts were ballooning and I didn't want to add to my set of disjointed accounts. Now I'm kind of sad that my uid is so high.

... and do you find Gnome3 frustrating to use? This is the data point we've all been waiting for!

... it's also not that hard to write your own. There are plenty of perl/python/whatever rss libraries out there to do all of the hard work, and then you just need to spend some time fiddling with CSS to make it look pretty. Here's what I created about 10 years ago, before all of these other things existed:

http://www.wirelesscouch.net/cgi-bin/headlines/headlines.pl

(Well, maybe those other things existed. I certainly didn't know about them though.)

The lab was closed today and will be again tomorrow, and the townsite started voluntary evacuations last night. It turned into a mandatory evacuation this afternoon.

Luckily, I have some friends to stay with in Santa Fe.

There are oodles of configuration management tools out there that do at least most of what you want. My personal recommendation is Bcfg: http://www.bcfg2.org/ . It doesn't quite have the entire web interface (yet), but it is fantastic for keeping everything up to date and clean and telling you when you have outliers. I currently use it for the 350 or so support machines for the 5th fastest computer in the world, and I know _much_ larger installations are using too.