For once google returned an effective answer to solve a bizarre problem.  Do you have the problem that Terminal.app takes ages before a prompt shows up when you open a new tab?  So did I – here’s the fix:

sudo rm -f /private/var/log/asl/*

via Shannon Hicks

Recommended reading

• While You Slept, They Hacked #tcdisrupt – Watch the video, some interesting hacking projects
• Google i/o 2010 – GWT + Spring – This is one of the more impressive videos from this year's Google I/O event, here you can see how VMware (of all people) organised an effort to combine the predominant backend Java framework, Spring, with the leading frontend framework, GWT, and came up with quite a harmonious result – recommended watching