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!