Here's a thing about software development. This dude I used to work with would sometimes, in the winter, head up to the mountains for some pre-work skiing before rolling in to the office at noon or 1, and in the summer, take off early for some afternoon wakeboarding. When asked about it, he pointed to the cyclical nature of our jobs: during certain parts of the software development lifecycle, he works from dawn until the wee hours of the morning...and during other parts, not so much. He called...

There's a bunch of free episodes now available for download in the Video Marketplace. They include the following: premiere episodes of all our MTV Tr3s content including Pimpeando, Karlifornia, Rock Dinner & Quiero Mis Quinces. The free premiere episode of Bravo's Make Me a Supermodel. And we'd be remiss if we didn't mention a slew of free teaser and preview clips from Comedy Central's Important Things with Dimitri Martin.

Ye ask, and ye shall receive. Beginning today the Zune Marketplace is proud to offer programming from PBS Kids network. Launching today, such shows as Super Why, Caillou, Arthur, Wordgirl and Fetch. In addition, we've also added some new shows to the PBS network, including Frontline. Enjoy!

Hey! So we were messing around with Mixview recently, trying to play “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” with various artists. Turns out it’s actually kind of fun…especially when you take two artists who are totally different, and try to find a path from one to the other. Like, check this out: Metallica to Barbra Streisand: Metallica to Black Sabbath Black Sabbath to April Wine April Wine to Boston Boston to Bad English Bad English to Journey Journey to Garth Brooks Garth Brooks...