If you follow me on the Windows Weekly podcast, you know that I
made a resolution, coincidentally at the New Year this year, to
lose weight in 2011. Since then, I've dropped 24 pounds and have
adopted a healthy and natural low-carb diet, and plan to
continue losing weight for the rest of the year if possible. And
while this doesn't seem like a regular topic for the SuperSite
for Windows, let alone a general purpose tech site, it does
touch on an interesting tech trend that impacts us all.  Put
simply, personal technology first gained traction because of
work: Individuals would demand an Apple II or other early
personal computer in order to run Visi-Calc or Lotus 123, and in
the early days, they were willing to bring in their own machines
if that's what it took. In the subsequent couple of decades,
business drove technology, and people adopted PCs at home simply
because that's what they used at work or, in the case of
students, it was what they expected to use at work.  The past
few years, especially, have bee