I've heard the 20-minute cycle thing mentioned a number of times, and always wondered where the magic 20 minutes came from. I'll have to look into that. Still, I'm definitely interested. You're absolutely right, too, and I think you sum it up very nicely: the biggest enemy to our attention span is our inability to say…

It's not going anywhere. :) Come back later.

Hah - maybe digest it in bites then. :D But yeah, the irony doesn't escape me. :)

The last couple of routers I've setup with dd-wrt were under $30. I run a dd-wrt router at home (inside my firewall as an access point) and it''s been up since a long power outage last winter. Ditto my firewall, but that's business class.