I graduated in 1982, that was the year they replaced the time share terminals with Commodore Pets. The year prior we spent learning FORTRAN, we were now able to move into the brave new world of BASIC. One fun thing about the time share terminals, they used acoustic couplers and dial up, if you stood in the corner of the room and whistled the correct note, you could disconnect all the terminals in the room simultaneously. Of course, you then had to run for your life...

I like i3 for much the same reasons. It's fast,efficient and doesn't chew up a bunch of screen real estate, which is important on a netbook.

Or just pick up a 900 MHz baby monitor, that's what we did. They are a bit difficult to find though.

Actually, not even that's true. It's perfectly possible, and not even terribly difficult, to put non-DRM content onto a Kindle. Fictionwise will tell you how to do it, as will Baen books. Basically, losing his Amazon account just made it difficult (but not impossible) to put DRM'ed books on the Kindle. I'm not sure that's a minus..

Tweets would be limited to 80 characters or less instead of 140...

I just noticed a handy Akismet stats link in the latest version. I've been running Akismet since October 2006, in that time there have been 26,575 comments on my blog, of which 26,302 were spam(!). It missed 25 spam comments that had to be manually moderated and passed 273 legit comments. There have been no false positives. Personally, I think that's a pretty darn good record.

Hmm.. I've run akismet for a couple of years now and have never had a false positive. It's missed a few spams, but never marked a legit post as spam.