How about getting an office chair that is tall enough to use to sit at the standing desk?

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I think he's using gallons from the other side of the Atlantic from you. 42mpg (US gals) for an AWD turbo diesel is very respectable

This is really just not true. I spend a lot of time on a road bicycle during the warmer months, so cars are passing all the time; and hybrids in electric mode are dead silent coming up behind you, frequently scaring the crap out me and my team mates. All other vehicles make audible noise. Not sure if it's the engine, the engine fan, or what. But you definitely hear it on internal combustion engines and not on hybrids in full electric mode.

In that respect, there's no such thing as "LAN security." THe cafe is really no less secure than anything else WRT your email's readability. Even if you're at work behind a corporate firewall, you should be similarly nervous. That email was in the clear across the internet. Even if it came form another coworker, a 3rd party at work could be snooping. Treat unencrypted email as if anyone could read it. 'cuz they can.

she's dead, Jim

Sure is, but I check my gmail with an IMAP client. Facebook with an iPhone app (and sometimes their web page, too.)

Yeah, that's why the vast majority of apps we all use on a daily basis on our computers are web apps. Or not. In fact, for me, there's not a single web app I use on a daily basis...

Maybe he's typing on a Pre. I hear the keyboard sucks. :-)

You could just go watch CNN's flash video instead. Presumably the other networks each have one as well.