Yup. August it is. 4 July 20034 July 2003 I just confirmed this.

It took me about 5 minutes to even try it though, since "Screensaver" was renamed to "Screen Effects" in the new system preferences panel in OS X, and I couldn't figure out how to turn on locking for the life of me. 7 July 20037 July 2003 Last night a bunch of us swam across the Charles River, under the BU bridge. It was so beautiful, I wish I could've taken photos somehow. 19 July 200319 July 2003 The power just went out in my building, causing my network to die (but not my laptop). So I was like: awe crap. I guess I'll just watch TV. 20 July 200320 July 2003

During my dashboard demo at OSCON.

Summary of our IRC conversation on the subject:

<graydon> Nat: do you think today's kids -- with their massive overexposure to computers, but with crappy programming environments -- will learn to code earlier or later?
<Nat> graydon: html + css + javascript is first now
<Nat> but at 4 or 5 you don't have shit to publish
<Nat> you want to make the computer do neat things
<graydon> maybe a very popular MMORPG client with an embedded scripting system. in-game programming is a good hook, like MUDs.
<Nat> good call y0
<shaver> yeah
<boc_yyz> i would have started earlier if leisure suit larry had some sort of programmable element to it