*Pours hot grits on you*

Looks like you beat me by a day :-)

I've always wondered if others find US date formats hard to read. 12/21/2012 is silly. It's not in the correct order! Month/Day/Year? As a database person I prefer 2012/12/21 or 21/12/2012 or similar. I'm not trying to troll. It's caused problems before when exchanging emails around the world - Is the date format restricted to the US, or is it more prevalent? A friend had a messed up birth certificate because the UK and US documents both had days 12 and the moths and days got mixed up.

MS Office was originally written for the Mac, then ported to Windows. Just FYI :P

I downloaded it a few hours ago. Got a screen that said "It's our anniversary, all 100 games are free until you delete the game from your device". I've downloaded 6 different games so far and there weren't any in-app purchases involved. If you've already got the game I imagine you need to delete it and re-download.

All 100 Atari Greatest Hits games are free on iOS today. Link Here

"However, the Android-based Transformer has perks the iPad lacks, like an ultra-bright backlight" The iPad 3 backlight is very bright. I doubt you could make a brighter display without having a negative affect.

Link here: https://cloud.oracle.com/mycloud/f?p=service:home:0

AT&T had a related problem in 1999: http://www.askmaclean.com/scn-may-jump-in-a-distributed-transaction-with-dblink.html

The Higgs Boson is holding a press conference at midnight on Dec 24th. He's giving Christmas mass.

Made me think of this xkcd http://www.xkcd.com/978/

Install Undercover http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/. Assuming you buy another Mac :) Awesome bit of software.

I'm very surprised The Guardian published this article as-is. A non-geek won't have a clue what most of the article means! Maybe it shows how far removed from reality RMS really is. A layman's not going to know what a binary blob or a firmware is, and they aren't explained. Very strange for mainstream news in my opinion.

Heh, I fondly remember the Natalie Portman/Hot Grits spam. Often made for an interesting read. Whatever Happened to Oog The Caveman? (Or did I just make that up?)

This was one of the arguments mentioned in the show.

I've yet to see a link to it, so here it is for those in the UK that want to catch it on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0120dxp/Terry_Pratchett_Choosing_to_Die/

I don't advocate piracy, but there's also a torrent out there if UK viewers somehow are unable to watch on iPlayer: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6470486/Terry_Pratchett_-_Choosing_to_Die

I found it quite upsetting. Haven't been quite right at work today after watching it on the commute to work :s