WHS works a lot like Time Machine (I suppose). All our machines are backed up automatically every day to a server (in another building). And most importantly, the restore works and is surprisingly fast! I've had two machines go belly up and didn't loose any data.

Hell I did some of my best programming/system design when I was 40! But I do find it odd that you would be asking about learning a new language... that's something you should have been doing all along. Part of the challenge of being a good developer is staying on top of the latest trends and development environments. In fact, some days, the only thing that keeps going/motivated is knowing that there is always an opportunity to learn new things.

1. Record a video of your drugged 7 year-old.
2. ?????^H^H^H^H^HExploit him by putting video on Youtube.
3. Profit!
I've been searching for that second step for ages....

You mean you'd been sitting on the first step for a long time and you couldn't figure out the second one?!? Dude, seriously.

Microsoft recently "released" Mesh. It is IE only though (and the reason I will probably stick with LogMeIn).

If you look at minutes of use, the average American uses their cell phone four times as much--four times as much--as the average European.

Yeah, I used to spend more time on the internet back when I had dial-up.

Oh! I smell a class action lawsuit coming on!

This idea has already been invented... by Shampoo

In my town, we would wrap our feet in barbed wire for traction.

Barbed wire? You were lucky to have barbed wire. We used to have to strap two rabid squirrels to our feet!

Ok, I actually think this is kind of cool. But I would quibble about the way they use #if's on the code. In general, you should avoid #if PLATFORM (the video shows #if WINDOWS_PHONE) and instead do the conditional on a particular feature. So instead:

#if WINDOWS_PHONE
#define ACCELEROMETER_SUPPORTED
#define TOUCH_SUPPORTED
#endif
:
#if ACCELEROMETER_SUPPORTED
:
#endif
:
#if TOUCH_SUPPORTED
:
#endif

This makes life easier when touch becomes a popular feature on laptops and desktop computers, for example.

Everyone knows it's the lack of search data that caused Bing to initially suggest (and probably still does) Windows when typing in something related to Ubuntu or Linux. I mean seriously, how are they supposed to know what you want from terms like Linux or Ubuntu. What do those even mean?

Just for the record, Bing's first page of search results for Ubuntu and Linux are quite reasonable. Can't speak to what they returned in the past...

I have no idea why they couldn't come up with a better solution for the door: Locking it would be very easy. Even better, by removing the door handles it would be very clear that the door can't be used.

Because perhaps that door is the way to a safe exit during a fire (or rampaging co-worker). During which time it would be inconvenient to try to figure out who has the key or to find a door handle to open it.

I'm not disagreeing with your claim that a sign is not going to work, just pointing out that a simple solution isn't always feasible.

And in justice the Italian way, they ended up feeling sorry for all of them and made all of the ones they convicted eventually eligible for work release.

Didn't work out that way for Amanda Knox.