The switch to the 1TB/$100 by dropbox basically made the argument for me moving to any other solutions moot. A TB is a *lot* of unique data, and DB has nice integration with a lot of mobile devices. I'm usually on board with the roll-your-own, but prices are such that it's just not worth fiddling for me.

This is why I no longer manage people.

Alan, what do you listen to while you work - or are you a "silent tomb" type person. Similarly, what music do you enjoy (or avoid)?

Thankfully, the horrible Kinja comment system installed a few months ago has significantly reduced my incentive and desire to participate here, which has increased my productivity in teh office.

Seriously...how does this affect the taste of the milk? I can't remember actually drinking month-old thawed milk, but milk is pretty delicate in terms of taste changes. I gave up freezing cheese because it takes on a grainy texture after being thawed and for the (mainstream) cheeses I eat that's not a good thing.

Not in the governmental census sense, but in large cities where hour long commutes are the norm. If your household income is 50k in Washington DC, San Francisco, New York, or Los Angeles, you're going to be hard pressed to purchase first-world level housing.

Only because of the nets.

I quit my job and started my own company because I was leaving for my hr commute before my (infant) daughter got up in the morning and getting home after she was in bed for the night. At the time, I went from $40k to $0k (in the first year). But it wouldn't have lasted if I hadn't started making money.

That does seem a bit on the high side for such a small salary (zero vs 1hr commute = 66-80% of salary). It would have to be a pretty seriously bad commute to be worth taking a pay cut from $90,000 to $50,000 - that's a *lot* of creature comfort, and for a one-earner family pushing you from middle class to near-poverty…

Honestly, I thought everybody did this automatically - it seems the logical thing to do. Also, always massage the cramping muscle away from the heart (that one I was told by a swim coach way, way back).

Giving the new budget a trial run before the baby comes is a good way to see if your plans are realistic. For example, if you're planning to cut back on eating out and reallocate that money towards baby expenses, you could go ahead and start saving the extra cash now. If you want to take things a step further, you…

Oh, I know I won't need 99.999% of what's in there. But the 0.001% makes it worth keeping, becuase I don't know in 5 years *which* 0.001% will save me in a million dollar lawsuit (and in the industry I'm involved, they're all a $million+ if I'm involved). I'm pretty aggressive at deleting the mulch, as you call it,…

I got the impression that this was a hedge against someone gaining access to Google's mail servers (such as what happened at Sony), not someone cracking your personal account.

That sort of defeats the purpose of Gmail as an online client. Not that that's a bad thing, necessarily, but then you're back to just using gmail like a regular server (though POP means never having your devices synchronized).

Yeah, see, now you're not even listening.

I try not to be racist (nobody is perfect). I teach my daughter not to be racist - more specifically, I teach her empathy for others and to judge people on their actions.

Thank you. That's all I'm asking.

Good white people? Really?

Connecting any component (like a TV or STB) without a keyboard must be an absolute joy.

You should always go with FBI Van #2. That way they'll always wonder where the other one is.