My tool care: Take out of drawer, use, put back in drawer.....

I'd imagine all the media would be much larger.

I find listening to Japanese music helps as well. Since I'm slowly trying to learn it anyways I find I tend to perk up when I hear familiar words and phrases.

I'll be trying this out, might save me some time and (hopefully) money.

When you don't have any non-family/friend references apart from previous jobs what's the best way to include that on a resume? Additionally, what's a "nice" way to simply tell recruiters and hiring managers to basically not abuse your references (major reason why I no longer have references; people trying to give me a…

I have a single ESXi server (a Lenovo Thinkstation workstation). You don't need to spend thousands for a server unless you want/need that power

No interest in using OSX but I think I'll toss a VM on my vSphere server for practicing. Getting use to it without having to spend thousands. win-win

I love Lifehacker! :)

"Oh! The electronics store? I'm afraid I can't let you do that. Protocol forces me to remind you that I am non-returnable. There is however a graveyard nearby."

It's not a mess if you know where everything is!

Disinfecting dish sponges is something I've never thought of before. You learn something new everyday.

It's not cheating, it's just a unstated rule :)

I've never been able to get into green tea. Give me some strong black tea (?) and I'm happy. Add some lemon/lime juice and it'll disappear fast. Green tea though.....I just haven't ever been able to get into it. Maybe it's just the quality of what I've tried or something.

Just brought a 64GB for $38 yesterday off eBay for my Galaxy S3. That should hold me over for awhile. To my knowledge, there's no phone that supports 128GB right now and there are faster SD cards for cameras.

Been using amazon for shipping weights for a long time. Some things require a little looking but it comes through for the most part. No more guessing (most of the time).

For right now:

I have my Linkedin on my resume along with my website. I also have my google+ profile (rarely used but mostly tech/science articles), a personal email and a link in the footer to the gdocs version of it (in case they have a old copy.

Could of used this a few weeks ago for someone that was pestering me about it.

The K800 is great. Varying levels of backlight and it last several weeks on a charge (even when kept on continuously).

There's a nice clone called Tasks: Astrid To-Do List Clone that's very good. The dev is keeping is up to date and promises web functionality in the future. It still syncs to gtasks as well (1 acct) and it recognized by many apps like Pure Calendar that can plug into it.