OK, I admit it... I've gone a little stir-crazy for science.

Remember that newsletter WCG sent out about wanting to get another 100,000 devices on the grid before the end of the year? I, ah... may have taken that challenge a tad seriously.

Since that announcement, I have added seven workstations to my fleet (with two more on the way) courtesy of my workplace, and another four (with three more on the way) courtesy of a client site, and another one courtesy of my parents. Mind, all of these are added with permission of the machine owners... but I just can't seem to stop myself!

I have also managed to establish a permanent SSH tunnel (using Plink as a Windows service) to one site and a VPN tunnel to the other, just so I can manage and track all my machines from a single console. Which was a very interesting project, in and of itself.

And still I just want to keep adding more and more machines to the grid. Forgive me for being a bit loony, but I'd like to crunch as crazy as I feel. Not to worry, though--I'm sure the craze will die off sooner or later. It generally does, but at least then the machines will still be there crunching away and contributing to science. At least until they die.