First, if there was a magic pill for hair growth, I'd probably take it. Then again, I probably wouldn't as there are better things to spend my cash on.

Started losing my hair at 19. It didn't bother me then; it doesn't bother me now. It's in no way "emotionally debilitating". I haven't been to a barbers in 15 years and I don't miss the monthly waste of time.

Hats in the cold: Where I live, everyone wears a hat in the cold. It doesn't matter if you have hair or not.

Hats in the hot: You should wear one even if you have hair. There are plenty of hats with air holes for circulation. You need more than one; wash them often.

Chicks dig scars. Head scars are cool. I have a few beauties. The four from the metalwork used to hold my broken jaws together are not nice but they have been a nice topic of conversation more than once.

Embrace the baldness, number one.

I told all the family early on that I could, if I needed to, monitor all their internet activity from my own PC. A few ground rules were put in place, such as no trolling or abusing others, and that was it.

Fast forward to last week and my 13 year old admitted to downloading and watching the movie Saw with her friend. I played the fatherly game of "you shouldn't watch that at your age" and "is there anything you'd like to talk about?". The game was won by the choice words "oh c'mon Dad, it wasn't that bad".

They had their giggle. They had there kudos at school for watching something they shouldn't. Today, because of the school strikes, they are watching a chick flick because it's far more enjoyable for them rather than watching a horror movie. I know they wont download the rest of the series.

We're open about the internet. Mistakes have and will be made - that online bullying shit is very real. We like it this way.

Tea bags??? In a cup??? What sort of evil world do you live in??? You'll be telling us that the milk goes in first next!!!

Tea is made with boiling water in a teapot. Every other method is not cricket.

"They also have a handy way to deal with customization"

Yep, they pass me their phone and ask me to fix things like screen brightness and timeouts, auto-correct and predictive text, adding WiFi APs, clearing cache(s), finding where their movies/photos/porn are stored, fixing Facebook's and Twitter's downed webservers.

I love it. I love my launcher. I love my new screen lock. My widgets are perfect. The screen transitions bounce perfectly to the nearest millisecond. Shortcuts to directories are lovely. One touch calling. Firefox sync. Oh man, what an excellent setup I have.

Android. Who would have guessed it would become so good?

No, no and thrice no.

It might work for you team of developers but it would not work for my team of engineers. Unless it can be copied to a USB stick, it is useless.

Asking them to set up a query in Excel to pull data off Sharepoint..? Some of them can't even copy the URL to a Sharepoint webpage. These engineers are on GBP six-figure salaries.

Hmm, yeah, OK, sorry to pick on your post.

People are using Word wrong. Treat it like a HTML page and all is good. First, write your text (HTML). Second, make the formatting (CSS). Done, done and done. Don't try and do both at the same time.

Flow control? That's what "Keep with next", "Widow/orphan control" and "keep lines together" are for. All can be set with styles.

Frame control is a few right clicks away. Once you have one frame correct, use the format painter on the rest. This is done at the end of the job.

There are more styles than you can use. These have the same variables as CSS. Apply them at the end. They can be changed globally or on the fly, the choice is yours.

If you're re-tweeking formatting as you're typing, you are doing it wrong. Unless you have a fully working template to start with, and I have never ever seen one of those, even the ones I've written, you cannot apply formatting until the text is 99% complete.

I should teach this shit for money.

It still has that mode. It never went away.

Default shows print layout. A better option is draft or web layout.

It does fit nicely into the "neat" and "cool" categories.

I have zero use for it, but it is still neat and cool.

Kudos to the coder.

I had this on a few Virgin Media routers. If the box was checked, the internet was throttled to a crawl.

Uncheck all those boxes.

Every seasoned gardener knows the vacuum cleaner trick. From aphids to greenfly to wasps, the vacuum cleaner really does suck for them.

They have 3 million customers?!?!?

Shocking, truly shocking.

Oh, and yeah, the hack raised an eyebrow.

Yeah. We should invent a protocol to transfer files, a file transfer protocol, so to speak. It would allow anonymous access, uploading and downloading, but no deleting. Deleting could only be done by the server admin.

For extra functionallity, we could allow a ratio system where the user must upload a file before being able to download. This might be a problem for people with massive upload speeds. We'd have to introduce some form of throttling too.

I'd like to see a discovery system introduced. It would have to be decentralised. Maybe each user could be assigned a netblock that they scan for anonymous access to file transfer protocol servers. They'd probably have to set the scan going overnight and report the findings in the morning.

I can't beleive something like this wasn't invented 40 years ago. It sounds so obvious.

Euuuuuwwwwww.

Be two minutes late for work. Make the time up by staying two minutes late or working 0.004% harder and faster throughout the day.

I've done similar in the past, but these days tend to let my mod points fade away.

I've said before, if I start modding comments early in the life of the thread, I can heavily influence the discussion path. Up-mod an interesting post, up-mod the argumentative reply, even up-mod a troll-ist AC and watch the fallout.

This was not possible in the early days. Bad mods were corrected and some of the group-think didn't exist.

Posts going all the way up to 10 mod points, and the default viewing level being +4, would solve this kind of manipulation.

Put the DVD in the drive. Reboot. Click yes to everything.

That's well within the "My dad could do this" spec.