i decided im going to make a portable computer thing like this http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-turned-into-a-portable-workstation-20120719/
That's pretty cool. I prefer do do stuff like this with my Arduino UNO. Got that instead of a Raspberry Pi.
RaspBMC works really well, I use it for radio and YouTube and other stuff like that, like a normal PC but for £20, Also that fact that I can pull out on SD card and plug in another to change from an apache webserver to a media centre is just amazing.
Lucky for you that you manage to get your hands on the raspberry pi.. I'm still waiting for it to stock up on element 14. My ideas when I get it is to build smb server with few external USB hdd attached, for my 16GB iPad and stream the media off it.