Though some of those energy saving LED bulbs consume less power, I have found them having less life. I prefer to change the lifestyle for saving energy instead of finding out hundreds are new replacements. There are most places in day to day life that can be saving a lot of energy. May be try reducing the daily hot water shower for few minutes and see the difference. Web Development - FromDev

I guess it depends on how you look at it. Though the right scrolling certainly is painful and I hate it too. There can be a better visual design for such thread comments that no one has ever thought about. Sometimes the main topic is left aside and a gossip discussion starts and makes people more engaged. May be your site would want people to be more engaged. Threaded may give at least some opportunity on this. I still remember the old digg threaded comments that were almost always more hilarious then the main story.

I am still stuck with my USB 2.0 port laptops. No 3.0 since they are old. I guess its time to switch my stack. I have to still figure out some good backup storage for my media.

Its been long time since I have heard something good about a microsoft product. I couldn't stop laughing at phrase "Unless you're required by God to hate all things touched by Microsoft". Someone told me that Windows is just a operating system but MAC is a religion :) Slowly the world of handheld is reaching smaller life span, it makes me think how the companies would survive competing with all these increasing needs. Businesses are already spending on android/ios and now W8 is going add to the mix. Hope things will merge in a decade or so.

This article reminds me of the best book I have ever read on usability - "Dont make me think". Surely, its all about usability, at the end internet user does not care what extra ordinary technology and coding efforts have been put into a web application. I guess, most software developers make a strong opinion about any site within first few page of browsing. I tend to not trust a bad layout site, even if its government affiliated or verisign/other CSA certified. Though everyone may have different opinion about it.

Leading by example is probably one of the best techniques to earn more respect and have your team motivated. The vive.ly link is probably causing a lot of deley on your blog...I am seeing this from past few days. not sure if anyone else has noticed this slowness yet. It takes almost 30 seconds to open each page on your blog which used to be fraction of seconds in past.