... and StatCounter has a bias towards small sites.

Swilden's point is spot on. Arguing over the specific percentages produced by NetApps and StatCounter is useless since neither can remotely claim to provide a random sampling of websites. The stats are useful to see overall trends in browser usage, but that's about it.

We got this one and are pretty happy with it:
http://www.amazon.com/My-First-Lab-Duo-Scope-Microscope/dp/B000NOU54O

It's not stereo, but is well-made and inexpensive. Definitely a cut above a mere toy. My kids don't use it often, but we've had it a couple years and they still pull it out occasionally when they have something to look at. I would say 7yo is old enough to start operating this kind of microscope too rather than just viewing (isn't he really going to want to do that anyway?), so something inexpensive like this makes a lot of sense.

I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree completely.

I've been working from home for 11 years. I have 2 kids, 7 and 10. I sometimes think it would be nice to go to an office, see my coworkers more often, have regular ping-pong breaks (like my last job). The one thing that makes my truly glad that I work from home is that I get to be there to see my kids grow up. I walk them to and from school; I'm there for all significant events. I am not always available to help with homework, and they can be a distraction sometimes, but no more than other office workers can, in my experience. I don't know, maybe I'm lucky to really like my kids, but the extra distraction and stress that comes with being closely involved in my kids' lives is all worth while for me.

Does it really need to be a totally random 20+ character string? One great feature of KeePass is that it allows you to set up a pattern to use for generating automatic passwords, which allows you to have passwords created that are much easier to remember while still having a lot of randomness to them. For me, this at least creates passwords that I can hold in my head long enough to type out without having to check back for each character.

It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it's a generally well-written a produced magazine that often features articles about computer science and engineering, along with articles about all of the other sciences. It's also unlikely to drop its print format any time soon.

Since you're asking, I may as well plug the book I have enjoyed the most in the past year. Kesey is of course most famous for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Sometimes a Great Notion is beautifully written -- one of the few books to combine great poetry with an absolutely compelling and fulfilling plot. It's also quite long, which will make it last on those long plane rides.

Not sure where you live, but here in Virginia online election results are posted throughout election night and kept up for anyone to see:
http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/cms/Election_Information/Election_Results/Index.html

I guess all I can say is that I disagree that republicans and democrats are identical.

I said real choice, not perfect choice. And yeah, I think that who gets elected matters. You can call me naive, but I think it's more naive to think that it doesn't.

What Russians are protesting right now is not who gets elected, but how they get elected. The protesters draw from a wide swath of political parties who agree on very little except that they want free and fair elections.

The truth is that many Russians do think exactly the way you do. My mother-in-law is a Russian living in Moscow. She thinks maybe there was voter fraud, but only a little and not enough to matter. Putin is maybe corrupt, but only a little and look at all the good things he's done! Her overriding argument, though, is that there isn't anyone else worth electing, which is exactly how Putin has managed to arrange things.

It's easy to be cynical here in America, but we do have real choices and who gets elected does matter. It would matter in Russia too if a real opposition candidate could live long enough to make it to election day.

Thank you for actually bringing up the facts of the case!

Of course, the knee-jerk response to "bloggers are not journalists!" is "some of them are!" The judge did not say that you can't be a blogger and a journalist at the same time. He gave seven examples of evidence that the defendant could have provided to prove that she was a journalist, and apparently she provided none of them. The article seems alarmist in suggesting that she would have had to provide all 7. Even someone that did not go to journalism school and is not employed by a major news outlet should be able to provide "(3) proof of adherence to journalistic standards such as editing, fact-checking, or disclosures of conflicts of interest" if they are going to blast someone in public and then not produce any evidence.

I second this. There is absolutely no reason you need a computer science degree to do web development work. If your work is good, there are people out there who appreciate people with broader experiences.

I may be biased, because I was an English major once upon a time. All of my training has been on the job and in my spare time. Admittedly, I had the advantage of getting started in the mid 90's, when anyone with any interest or aptitude for web development could find gainful employment.

But now I am a partner in a small web development company led by 3 people with humanities degrees. If anything, if we see a resume from someone with a psychology or philosophy degree, we are apt to be more interested, not less. I don't imagine that we are in any way typical, but there are companies like ours out there.

That is not to say that we are idealists. We want to get a sense that you can really do the work, and we're looking for real-world experience. And if you can't deliver or your code is not clean, we'll cut you loose.

That's kind of what I thought too, but a quick search shows that we're wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

I have had a similar experience with my Droid Incredible -- I had to replace it twice. I will say that now that I have a phone that works I'm very happy with it. Kind of soured me on HTC though.

This is an obvious suggestions, since it's the first keyboard that comes up if you search for "ergonomic keyboard". It is really a great all-around keyboard. I bought one a few years ago after having broken my right wrist. It was very painful to type with my wrists rotated inward, and this keyboard allows the wrist to be at just enough of a tilt to make it very comfortable. I can type on a regular keyboard now, but wouldn't think of going back.

For the chair, as others have suggested, don't get a super cushy chair that encourages you to lean back. A simple task chair is best to encourage you to keep proper posture while working. Also as others have suggested, make sure to build frequent breaks into your routine.

Similar to the keyboard, an ergonomic mouse that tilts slightly will help. When my wrist broke, incidentally, I switched to using a left-handed mouse and have also never gone back. The only problem is that there are very few ergonomic mice made for the left hand.