I now fully use the simplified keyboard, a. k. a. "dvorak" layout - and I won't go back, it's simply a pleasure to use. It took me approximately one month and I now type "10-finger/no-cheating/no-looking-at-keys" style. Back on QWERTY, I tried to do the same, however happened to "cheat" because I was "used to it".
If you can read Danish, I suggest you visit DanskDvorak.dk ("DanishDvorak"), it has a lot of well explained general info about the layout, the history, good/bad side of switch, help how to switch, etc.
Yesterday I got a brand new 19" TFT monitor, nice! While having two monitors on a single desktop computer is nice, it's annoying that I haven't yet figured out how to make X windows use both monitors. My kernel corretly recognizes the Nvidia GeForce 4 and Matrox Millenium II cards, and they are useable in console. I will return when news appear.
I have a bttv878 based and well supported TV card, AverMediaTV, which I messed around with today. What are the dear Gentoo developpers up to?! Either the udev configuration lacks backward compability for video cards or my TV viewer is to old for udev support! My kernel recognizes drivers and the video grabber correct, but /dev/video0 don't seem to "emerge" as most of the documentation out there states it should do. Writing udev rules by Daniel Drake, explains both how to write udev rules, but also some background stuff which I lacked. I beleave I am able to solve this problem now - if that is the case, I'll very soon publish my findings.
BTW, I realized today that I almost 10 years ago registered my first linuxbox, more precisly in February 1997. Sigh!