You have a very low opinion of users, but you have a very high confidence in their knowledge of what is installed on their computers. Even the assumption that they intentionally installed the toolbar to begin with is unwarranted. As you say, most people with Firefox likely never open IE. So they likely didn't even know this toolbar was installed.
Well, you have to factor in changing out of your running clothes and showering if you're in a "professional" environment.
Also I have bad knees that make even the mile I walked to the job I just quit a little difficult. I doubt they will ever heal enough that running is a good idea.
I had bad knees for years, but found that running exclusively up-hill on uneven ground for about 2 years completely cured them.
This might not be practical or work for you, but I found a steady improvement after I started walking gently down hills and only running up. I also made a conscious effort to minimize the impact of each footfall.
After 2 years, I found I could even run downhill again without pain or injury.
You can try bicycling, it's faster and you won't sweat unless you have to go uphill. Also, if your office has showers (a rare but nice feature) you can go running/bicycling and have a shower.
I'm actually looking to start out like this myself, and I found a small, poorly organized nonprofit that has a less than stellar website. They're dying to make a change, but they don't really want to put the time into it.
I suspect there are lots of nonprofits like this. Or smaller nonprofits that simply don't have websites. Soup kitchens and stuff might not be into the 21st century.
I'm actually looking to start out like this myself, and I found a small, poorly organized nonprofit that has a less than stellar website. They're dying to make a change, but they don't really want to put the time into it.
A cursory inspection of Posterous will show that it uses Google analytics. Google runs Blogger. It's a direct competitor, even though Tumblr has a much more similar feature set.
So given that Posterous happily lets Google collect stats about all their users and their business, your hypothesis is patently absurd.
>and most glee clubs probably don't make videos either so it seems fairly moot.
Half of them are carrying video recorders in their pockets. Sure, it's very low-fi stuff, but you're remarkably out of touch if you think that teenagers don't record themselves performing and upload it to YouTube and Facebook.
For every person who has gchat set to never document anything, there's another neurotic packrat like my brother who saves all of his chat history so he can go back and show people how prior conversations went whenever there's a disagreement over what was said.
I used to do this. I have a wonderful memory for conversations I've had with people. I ended up turning off chat logging in every app I used because it just became a little too destructive to relationships.
Calling somebody out with cold hard facts works better on to-catch-a-predator than when it's people you enjoy being around :-)
>That’s why your game is region-locked. Got friends in Europe? Too bad. You can’t play with them. Blizzard has international Starcraft tournaments to sell.
You know, even with online-play only I might have been compelled to buy SC2, eventually after the price comes down.
But without international play I will have no choice but to schedule when I play around when other people are playing. I stopped gaming regularly when I entered college, and now it's something I do every once in a while, when I need to disappear from life for a while - it's not scheduled, and I don't want to have to worry about scheduling unless I'm scheduling a LAN party. - also an impossibility.
