I've been experimenting a lot with the HTML5 <canvas> tag recently, and you can do some nice stuff - these are all pretty basic but using just HTML and JS I built a freaky clock, a 60s style UFO party viewed from above and some wireframe boxes. It was all quite painless, the only problem is that IE doesnt support it yet.

I get the odd spam in my inbox but it mostly works, there is the odd false positive as well, so unfortunately I have to keep checking my Spam folder.

Interestingly, I set up a 'junk' GMail address for usenet posting etc and the address has the word 'spam' in it; despite being used all over the net for a couple of years it hardly gets any spam at all, maybe the spammers filter out addresses with 'spam' etc in them assuming that they are obfuscated?