I'm not sure how you got that impression. The guide clearly states: "Cherry MX Blue switches are the best cherry switch for typing."

The guide is nicely technical, but doesn't describe usability very well. I used that guide to buy a Rosewill keyboard with MX Blue (for typing only) at work. It really misses the key points of this evaluation - particularly the way it will "pelt you with shrill, high-pitched clicks". I'm surprised my cube neighbors haven't asked me to stop using it because it's so damned noisy. Also that they're "almost too crisp" - they have such a light touch (compared to the IBM M that I still use at home) that after six months I still have to type more slowly to avoid accidental keypresses.

I once accepted a job offer with the criteria that any failover would be periodically tested. I was frustrated with business groups refusing to test failover, or (worse) *knowing* that something wasn't working quite right and not doing anything about it. Unscheduled failures will most likely fail when the right person to fix it isn't there. It's just a matter of odds - there are 168 hours a week, but only 40 work hours and even fewer when the right person is not on vacation or off doing something else. With a scheduled failover, you can have *all* the right people on hand to make sure it works. I got the guarantee, so I took the job. They reneged on the promise a few months later.

You looked too far back! For the past few years IANA has allocated about 12 /8s per year, and that is growing (they allocated 14 /8s in the first seven months of this year). People forget that IP addresses are used for a lot of things besides desktops. Ford is used as an example below...well, most factories today use IP-based tools. Shutdown every factory in Ford for a week or so, and you're looking at about $2 billion in lost revenue (plus a ton of administrative costs), for a /8 that will delay IPv4 exhaustion by two weeks.

A NAT isn't Armageddon, it is (usually) just an inconvenience. You can configure it to do port forward if you need to. Two NATs, however, is a different story. If your ISP can't get public address space (this will happen with some ISPs next year), they won't force you to use IPv6 - they'll use private address space and another big NAT to the rest of the world. Its almost certain that they're not going to forward ports for you, so you'll only be able to do peer-to-peer to people not behind dual NATs, at a time when ISPs are adding more NATs.