You know that show, “Are you smarter than a 5th grader?” This is a 5th grade math problem that kept me and genese scratching our heads for about 20 minutes. We eventually had it solved, but used totally different approaches to find the same solution.

• There are 7 girls on a bus.
• Each girl has 7 backpacks.
• In each backpack, there are 7 big cats.
• For every big cat there are 7 little cats.

Question: How many legs are there in the bus?

If you think you know the answer, download this excel spreadsheet and enter in the answer as the password. If it opens, you know you are smarter than a 5th grader.

Happy New Year!

BTW, AIM is much smarter than I thought. It automatically opens up ports on your firewall in order to connect to another person using AIM. However, this can be problematic if your router doesnt quite handle it well enough. Two days ago I was able to connect with video im to another person, but just yesterday, I noticed the open video option unavailable. In fact, it was totally missing from AIM.

After uninstalling/reinstalling AIM, drivers, etc. I decided to check my firewall. It turned out that the ports aim was using were not released properly and the AIM software upon start recognized that the ports were unavailable and thus disabled the feature. Neat actually. So I rebooted the router and restarted AIM and the option to use video im returned. Who knew AIM was firewall aware.