*Longhorn got longer, and longer, and longer. Unfortunately, in spite of tons of spam to the contrary, nothing else did.
*MSFT Employees called for heads to roll. Unfortunately, none did.
*Elizabeth took a bunch of guys camping and, er, "having a good time", in the mountains. Fortunately, she didn't get in trouble with her hubby.
*The EL lounge's reputation slid down a slick mudslide, as most of the regulars got a new job, or actually got busy at the old one, or had a life instead. Fortunately, the EL is still online.
*7 people at once appeared in #phpbuilder's IRC channel on freenode, and then promptly disappeared for the remainder of the year. Fortunately, freenode still has bandwidth.
*PHP lost an important contributor and began to be maligned all over the WWW for its BASIC-esque ease of syntax and the fact that newbs can't code securely, but can write PHP in 24 hours (TY Sam's!). Fortunately, your skills don't depend, necessarily, on the language you use.
