@brishu: You have some other problem, then. Maybe your history is set to remember way too many commands, maybe you have a complex profile or rc file (.profile, .bash_profile, /etc/profile, or whatever, depending on your shell), or maybe the problem is something else entirely.

If you are never going to use your ASL logs, why don't you turn off the logging rather than delete the logs every time you run a bash shell? 'man syslog' ought to tell you what you need to know about how to do that (not on my home Mac at work, so can't tell you the exact syntax from here).... Save yourself the cpu…

I do the above, and also keep one tall glass next to the kitchen sink half-filled with warm, soapy water. All long/narrow sticky utensils get put into there (tablespoons that have olive oil on them, knives with peanut butter, spoons coated in syrup, etc).

@MoHaG: Yes. Quotes are your friend.

@gcat10: /bin/cd

@Avedis: Or you could do like TheFu said and use a passworded zip file.

@Mr.Gawn: If you have a mac or a linux box, you can use cron to start playing a specific song or playlist. You can set up a couple different ones for different days of the week, using quieter songs on weekends, louder ones as the week wears on, etc etc.

@ChaosCon: Email is absolutely not a secure protocol. But, you could use GPG to encrypt the file (if they have the know-how to use GPG), and then call them over the phone with the password they'd need to open your encrypted file.

@aThingOrTwo: J and K are classic *nix (thanks to vi) down/up keys.

@Avedis: Obviously you can use some other editor if you aren't a fan of vim... just assign the variable VI to whatever you want to use instead.

@Avedis: Of course, that only works if you have bash/gpg/etc installed on your computer, but that means it can work for everyone (native on Linux, MacOS, UNIX, and via cygwin on PCs).

@Avedis:

@Chispea: I use gpg to encrypt/decrypt my master list as needed. Then I got even lazier, so I wrote a script that remembers the syntax for me.

@Aaron Crabtree: I had to disable the snap feature on my work win7 machine. Drives me nuts!

@bluecloud: Yes.

@indigo-go: The only thing that makes that go better are Sony mdr-v6 headphones (or better) and heavy metal.

One of the easiest ways is to use something like TinEye, and then compare the results (as long as it's not an original photo).

@Thomas Pettigrew: It will absolutely mess up teflon, and some other types of coated surfaces as well (some 'hard-anodized' surfaces, etc).

You actually don't need to use an asterisk when searching in gmail, since it uses regular expressions to pattern-match.

@Posco Grubb: I do this wherever possible, but some websites won't let you use a + in the address field.