I've never been successful with the home row method, I'll admit; it has always caused severe pain in my wrists. That said, I can type at least 90 wpm without looking at the keys, and that suits me just fine.
As the site itself says, there are a few other libraries similar to nanoc, notably http://webby.rubyforge.org/ . However, nanoc looks to be a little easier to use, I'll have to check it out. Anyone else have any experience with static site generation?
Wow, this takes me back... I remember reading this ten years ago or so. Still basically holds true for modern MMOs, I think, and they often do a better job of accommodating the different types of players than the old MUDs did as a result.
It should probably be noted, however, that the original article's suggestion to "avoid doing SQL queries within a loop" is still a good one. Granted, this isn't PHP-specific, so perhaps this wasn't the right place for it. Furthermore, on small traffic websites (which, as other commenters mentioned, are probably the target of an article like this) likely wouldn't see a significant speed up, given the low query volume. Nevertheless, minimizing trips to the database is a good idea.
For todo lists, I've been very happy with Toodledo (http://www.toodledo.com/). The free version suits me just fine, and I use it in combination with the free webapp for the iPhone. Unfortunately, the iPhone native app isn't free... Good luck!
Arguably, there's an element of discrimination here too. Large American and European corporations and governments have plenty of IP addresses. (For a start, have a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IP_address_... ) Whereas countries like India and China are lacking IP addresses. Until the address shortage starts to affect the aforementioned governments and corporations, I doubt we'll see any significant movement.
Another well known webcomic which has been released in print form is Megatokyo. In fact, they're up to five volumes now! See: http://www.megagear.com/category_s/67.htm