One of the changes in the new set of documents is the removal of this community voting process. Ars Technica has a brief article on the changes.

For most of the world it's already Monday, so tomorrow is Tuesday. :-)

We've all moved to LibreOffice, but I still know a number of people who use or are interested in using OpenOffice, just because that name has been around long enough. If you don't follow sites like this, you might not know that LibreOffice exists. When I mention that they should look at LibreOffice instead, they say "Huh?"

OpenOffice development was somewhat stalled for a while after the LibreOffice fork happened. If development is going to continue, I hope they pick up the improvements from LibreOffice so that everyone can benefit.

Can I use the iPad to develop fully featured iPad apps? No? I don't think you can bill it as a development platform, then.

Not necessarily better than OpenGL, but better than 270.6 fps.

Valve's blog post, near the bottom, indicates that they plan on fixing the hang-up with Direct3D, now that they know that the hardware can do better than 270 fps.

Google has a project going along these lines, called Swiffy. Looking at the demos, it appears to work pretty well.

I see that you mentioned Google Docs, but have you looked at Google Apps for Business (runs on a domain of your choice)? There's a free version for up to 10 accounts. Otherwise, I think it is $50 per user per year.

It supports calendar sharing and company-wide contact sharing (from the web UI anyway). Though I think that the global contact list might be missing from the free version.

This is for a home / family network?

Has Facebook turned on SSL by default yet? I know that Twitter has, and Facebook has the option, not sure if they've thrown it on by default yet?

In any case, if they haven't, I imagine that it is coming, and then sniffing out contents of messages will not be so simple. You'd have to install a man-in-the-middle service with a fake SSL certificate and install said fake certificate as trusted on all of the client machines. (Good luck doing that on the iPhone.) And that's just to be able to see them in clear text. If you're trying to scrape them out, you're going to be constantly fighting with Facebook every time they change up their interface. Are you going to be tasked with updating this every time a new social service or game comes along?

It seems like the better approach may be to just have them learn some basic Internet safety.

Apple Software Update reports 729.6 MB for me (MacBook Pro). (Not combo update, either — updating from 10.7.3.)

More like 730 MB.

If you use Windows, the forthcoming Windows 8 "Storage Spaces" feature appears to be perfect for situations like this. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/05/virtualizing-storage-for-scale-resiliency-and-efficiency.aspx