I once worked shortly at a software development company that only had a slow DSL connection and therefore did not allow music steams. Also the boss wanted quiet rooms. So I quit!

Why didn't you just use headphones and an mp3 player?

At another employer, we constantly had music playing. Which made the whole job great fun, and motivated us.

Er, out of speakers? Who chose the music? That sounds like a situation in which *I* would quit. I want to listen to the music I like - I don't want to be subjected to other peoples' music, or subject other people to mine. I wonder if everyone in your group was having fun and motivated by the music.. Maybe they were, but it certainly wouldn't be a fun situation for me.

Have you tried listening to different genres? I recommend "minimal" or "drone".

Try The Field for example.

I find it makes excellent ignorable but pleasant background music.

If that fails, there's always white noise.

The air between you and the mountain also causes Rayleigh scattering, no?

Light hits air molecules, blue light is scattered into your eye from the direction of the mountains. The more distance, the more air, the more photons scattered.

Same as the sky.

That's my theory, anyway.

Surely the first thing any competent computer forensics analysist (or whatever) would do is make an image of your drive.

It briefly had a red title. Not sure what that indicated though - perhaps that there were no comments?

I use Firefox with IETab for this trick. Firefox has the cookie for my regular login, IE has the admin login cookie. One click on the statusbar to toggle my credentials!

Of course, it's not as secure as your method, but I mostly only use it for our company's internal bugtracker.