We already have several "mini-pandemic" exercises every year.... they are called "Holidays".

For the whole day millions of people stay at home and have the potential to play games over the Internet etc. (while feeling a whole lot better than if they had H1N1)

From what I have seen.... the Internet seems to be coping pretty good when millions of people take off from work all at the same time...

I just changed my programming font over from Courier New to Consolas, and I have to completely agree, it rocks! It almost makes me feel like I can read and understand the text faster.