Given that my main machine is a now-clunky four-year-old laptop, I'm not up to date on the latest hardware developments. This article gives a good basic overview to help you avoid the more obvious gotchas when buying a new system.
Useful article pointing to lots of information about how to make Linux more environmentally-friendly, including details of how to get it to hibernate and how to use older-spec machines for longer
Hopefully some of the ideas here will help me remember stuff I read in books, where I can't just cut-n-paste stuff into my blog quite so easily... Pencil notes in the margins, with post-it note markers is the current plan.
Architecture week soon, and there are some interesting events in Cambridge (some good ones in the North-West too). If I make it to any I'll no doubt write things up here.