Wait until September for the fire sales. If you're buying a Macbook Air then wait another week. They're just about to release a new model which will be much faster. Also, take advantage of the education pricing Apple offers and get yourself a couple hundred dollars off.

Seems like? Seems like a great update to me. $29, I doubt you can go wrong, but nobody is forcing you to buy it. Personally I'll wait to see what everyone is saying before I consider.

Our cat has kidney disease and we found that over the counter meds for acid control and constipation were like 5% of the price and much more effective. Veterinary medicine is a shameful rip off only outdone by the real-estate agent. What the hell do real-estate agents do for that 6%? Crooks.

Apple is in fire. 2 years and still no real iPad competitor. The world is copying. Their gear is years ahead of most if the rest if the junk out there, and Lion looks amazing. I'm lovin the full screen view and mission control looks great. I'm very happy with Snow Leopard, but I think I'll install Lion on my girl…

The Achilles heel of the "cloud". I'd like to start to see someone come up with a cloud service that allows you to use your own gear to run a cloud service. I'm the only one I trust with my files. But perhaps the easiest thing is to just go back to flash drives except where you're backing up files you don't care about.

Textmate is nice, but I hate the way it handles inline text indenting on soft wrapped text. Ugg. Also grep searches over projects is no where near as powerful as BBEdit. Obviously if you have the chance to learn emacs or vim these may be the way to go, but when time is limited this may not be realistic for some users.

#10 on a Mac is solved using Clipmenu [www.clipmenu.com] . It is a freeware clipboard manager and so much more. I've been using it for years and it's rock solid. Highly recommended.

I've also been using this for years. I sleep to the brown noise setting. It helps to block out any street sounds or this asshole who drives up at 5 am every day with his radio blaring. I've also used the waves crashing on a breach for power napping.

My girl friend got rid of our ants 2 summers running with a very cool trick. What you do is firstly make sure they don't have a food supply like a pet dish. Put the cat food on a plate with water on the plate and the dish in the middle. Then start catching ants with small jars. Catch 2 in the same jar if you can.…

Sounds like an interesting solution, but you might get distracted editing that file! There's also freedom which shuts off all Internet connectivity for up to 8 hrs, and self control which somebody else suggested, which allows you to run a black list of blocked sites for a specified period. If you're on a Mac you can…

Neither os x (or other unix systems) nor linux require defragging in contrast to Windows. ntfs is crap.

Probably not the best idea. Sugar will put fat on and cause crashing. Try kefir. It's easy to make yourself. Get the grains on ebay and you will have a lifetime supply. It's great for those who can't digest lactose. Provides so many benefits among them 30 something microbes that will populate your gut and help…

Defrag? A good operating system / file system should have no part in it.

You might need to occasionally reboot. I hate that. Otherwise, the micro cloth is god damn amazing for cleaning a mac. I do my ipad, glasses and mac with it. Unbelievable. Wash it on occasion with dish soap and hang to dry. That was something that took me years to figure out. When you first switch to a mac you start…

I'm saying that we should be seeing more options for easily creating a private cloud. I don't trust my data to anyone else and I don't have the time to encrypt my files.

The problem with cloud computing: Now they have your data and can hand it over to the government without due process. The only way cloud computing will be any good is if I run my own cloud on the network I administer. Period. I don't have time to zip and encrypt.

Check out [www.grist.org] and check out Sandor Katz's book Wild Fermentations which has an amazing bibliography from which you can find copious sources that support what I'm claiming here. Enjoy.

You appear to be claiming to find my views surprising. Hence, implicitly, you appear to subscribe to views that conflict with the ones I have expressed here. Provide us with the sources for your beliefs and stop pretending you don't hold such contrary views for otherwise you would not find my views news. Be consistent…

Steel cut oats are best, and organic are pretty cheap too.

Dumpster dive or eat road kill if you eat flesh. Otherwise your diet shouldn't be any different if you're poor since the best foods are often the least expensive too. Buy unprocessed. Lately I've been making my own sauerkraut, tempeh and kefir. The other thing is get yourself a good pressure cooker, then you can cook…