I've always had good luck with Western Digital hard drives, but on those MyBooks, the power button on the enclosure tends to quit working. I've had two, and the button quit on both of them. I tore the things apart and am using the bare drives.

The manufacturer of the jeans I wear recommends turning jeans inside out to wash. It reduces the wear on the visible surface of the jeans, and they don't deteriorate as quickly.

"The only thing more annoying than having to obey the speed limit..."

And if you're going to go that far, you should also recognize that so-called zero-emission vehicles... aren't. At the very least, they generate some heat, which is an emission.

So put scotch tape on the ground and drill through the tape. That should keep it from popping like a balloon. :o)

Probably too small for this map, but the town of Rough and Ready, California actually succeeded in seceding from the union in 1850. They voted themselves back in 3 months later.

How about "orientate," and pronouncing the 't' in "often?" The first one makes me chuckle, the second makes me cringe.

What grammar mistakes bother you the most?

Last night I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse.

It's "stationery," not "stationary."

Ha! That was the first thought that came to my mind, too.

"Amazing" is a bit of a stretch, isn't it? It is fast becoming one of the most over-used words in the English language. Getting right up there with "awesome."

I wonder how Bare Naked Ladies would describe all that.

Did you try entering your ZIP+4? If you don't know it, you can go to usps.com to find it.

vote-smart.org has had this capability for several years.

You could always just not watch them.

I have a jade tree that I've had for over 30 years now. While my mother claims she can't keep jades alive, I can't seem to kill them. When my jade was about a foot tall, I came home one day to find that it had rotted below the soil line, and it had fallen over.

I'm not in front of my Linux box right now, but I'm almost certain that the Home key does the same thing as Ctrl+A, doesn't it?

That's "Hillsboro, Oregon," not "Hillsborough."

My sister loves traveling by train. She learned something a few years ago about Amtrak, and their reputation for never being on time, especially in the western part of the country.