Ditch the office lease by breaking it or sub-leasing it. Then be stronger about not being distracted when working from home. Then relax at home!

#3 wins.

I was going to tell my Roomba story, but I can't compete with #3.

I enjoyed the video, but shouldn't you give credit to the director by name somewhere in your article?

Cory, I think most of what you write is pretty naive.

First of all, creating and maintaining a professional website with reliable hosting of a lot of medium-sized downloads costs a hell of a lot more than $0.00 to a comic book publisher -- a lot of them are smaller companies with very few employees and often little web experience. It's not surprising to me at all how barebones most of their existing sites are (if they have a site at all).

Second, I agree completely with Tigerbomb. The vast majority of downloaders are never ever ever ever going to pay more than $0.00 for hardcopies. Most of the under 20s I know today really don't have the buying habit. Movies, music, comics, games -- all of this content is available free to them today and the urge to pay for it doesn't seem to magically appear when they get a paying job.

I'd bet you 50 times more people freeload forever than ever pay a cent.

The headline says "Mosaic" but the story says "Netscape"...

Switching from Lynx to Mosaic to Netscape had its downsides too.

First of all, remember all the constantly expiring free downloads?

Second, remember <blink> and other proprietary non-standard HTML?

The engineers at Netscape seemed more to be adversaries of w3c than participants. Their app never really understood SGML at all, and never had a document model, and reacted to each tag it saw in order, in a haphazard fashion. The result was millions of web page authors were taught bad HTML.

It was fast, though, and those early downloads included all kinds of things -- mail readers, ftp hosts, AIM -- in a relatively unbloated package.

Netscape is dead. Long live Mozilla.