I've got one of his little ip01 telephony boxes, and it is quite fantastic - a tiny, cheap, fanless, (embedded) Linux computer with plenty of memory and CPU grunt, and of course telephony hardware on board. It also has a package manager, with a quite a few pieces of software available, and regular firmware updates. It's much more powerful than the various Linux-based consumer routers that are available - it's a great option if you're looking for a small Linux server to run Asterisk, a little web site, DNS server, SSH, etc...

(I'm not affiliate with David or Rowetel in any way - just a happy customer, who is in awe of the amazing things this guy has achieved in such a wide variety of areas).

Success at WoW depends partly on having plenty of time (which unemployed people will have), and requires lots of time sitting in front of a PC (which may mean less time exercising, leading to weight gain).

So it seems quite possible that being overweight and unemployed is correlated with playing WoW - but if so, I would expect the causation is in the opposite direction to what you imply, and does not disprove the assertion that managing a guild can help your people management skills.

How things change. When I see "Tucows", I still think of "The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software". But then they started listing software that didn't use winsock... and then people stopped using the term "winsock" at all... and then they created the OpenSRS domain registration service... and now they are known as "domain name provider Tucows".

I'm sure the people living in China know all about this recent activity and are testament to the fact that... oh wait, no they don't, they have no idea what is going on, and there is no legal avenue to find out.

Why would they have no idea what's going on? They can read Slashdot just like you can, and therefore can find out about this from the same source as you have. There are also an enormous number of Chinese-language blogs with similar content.

China's firewall is, in practice (in my experience) fairly limited, and fairly random. None of the sites I read day to day were blocked anywhere I went in China, except for blogger.com blogs (although other blogging sites I read, such as Wordpress, were not blocked). I found people in China to be very well informed (at least, the folks in the cities - the 800m peasants in China of course don't in general have access to the internet, because they can't afford it).