I earned friendship with 3-4 people during my 3 years playing Final Fantasy XI. Had very good times with it/them. But I must agree the game was masking a "real" life I wasn't enjoying. I dunno if playing the game was the reason (one of them) I was in bad shape (body, mind, life in general) Or maybe the game was just a symptom something was going wrong (with or without game). And I'm sure I don't regret having played all those moments. But I agree with this comment in a first person view. Life is so great, so beautiful. The small things and the big ones. There are so many, and so little time, that I prefer to avoid somehow those that tends to alienate me from others (some drugs, some games...) I played WoW for 12 months later. But from another point of view. I've enjoyed it a lot too. Trick was giving to all activities higher priority than WoW's. No matter if it was just a beer with a friend who wants to talk about his job. No matter, it takes priority. No weird excuses. You put on your clothes, walk/drive to him and enjoy. WoW, raids and bosses will be there later... You just have real things on that exact moment. I plan to play Final Fantasy XIV the same way next year. I'll only permit this kind of games to enter my life on "lonely sundays evenings"... And only if it rains !!!!! I've discovered I like to walk !!!!! ^_^ PD: Maybe I'haven't expressed myself correctly. English is not my first language -_-

My requirements were prioritizing, selective downloading, FOSS, a small footprint, and running as service/daemon, and I tried most of the clients on the Wikipedia list that fit these criteria. I liked Deluge most, though I still had a a few problems.

In the end, the problem solved itself when I did the switch from Windows to Linux as my main OS. I use rTorrent, daemonized in screen now and have never looked back. It's very small and has console and (optional) web interfaces.

Oh, and please don't tell anyone I said "FOSS-software".

A couple more little relevant details. I work for a large aerospace firm and see a lot of good computing equipment just get thrown away. I've made contact with the necessary people to start a stream of it towards me. I'm also going to talk to a couple other firms that I work closely with and see if I can get them on board as well. My company is also interested in giving me some money and maybe donating a little new equipment once in a while. As for how I get the computers to kids who need them I'm working with teachers directly and having them give me names of students who work hard but have a hard lot in life.

Then I'd say they're pretty accurate.

Coincidence. This very same week scientists from SPANISH INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY IEO have succeed in getting millions of Red tuna eggs from same "generation" (I don't know the exact term in english, sorry) Difference between previous attemps being in the low number of eggs til now.

Aprox. translation from El Pais news

"A team of scientifics from IEO has gotten several red tuna (Thunnus thynnus) lays of about 5 million eggs each...

... Scientists have inducted hormones to the tuna and have gotten those 5 million eggs between monday and wednesday this week. They are starting the next phase of the project wich is about developing those larva...

Very very good news for sushi lovers (me myself!!) but BETTER news for one of the most overexploitted fish on the sea.