All good stuff! Bathroom cleaning is my most boring chore. Let's hack that next!

So what is this "super fast solid state drive" you speak of? The article referenced is just a general one about SSDs and if I move to portable apps for everything I'd love to know which specific USB stick kicks ass.

Here in New Zealand, we have to use a combination of harsh language and aggressive tickling to defend ourselves and property.

Photostream and its automatic proliferation of humiliating or compromising pictures surely deserves a mention?

Isn't it all about context? "Low-hanging fruit" is never in context, unless you are in the fruit picking industry, but in a business like workplace, words like proactive, synergy and robust have meaning that would need to be substituted with less succinct phrases to get across the same meaning.

It plainly doesn't take as much energy to wish as to plan. Wishes are fun and escapist, part of daydreaming and get me through the mundane bits of life. I don't have to dot i's and cross t's with something as vague as a wish.

It plainly does not take as much energy to wish as to plan. I love a wish or two - they are the meat of my daydreams. Wishes are formless, fun and fantastic.

I really love the idea of doing this "post-production". My wife gets annoyed with me using Hipstamatic to capture lifetime memories. She has a point - once the fad for grainy off-colour pictures has died away, we will be left with some rather average looking records of the kids' first day at school etc...

Like those hooks wouldn't snap off in an instant.

I like to start every new job with a bad cold, or in one case, full blown flu.

That is a real disappointing read. I was looking for some kind great way to slip laxatives into someone's coffee.

So the computer stays on all the time in case you need to get at a file? Isn't this just a file-centric remote access tool then?

Don't forget to delete the account (it's under settings) once you have exported. God only knows what happens to this stuff once the data owner loses interest.

Vote VMWare Workstation.

Vote: Clipperz.com

Scanned PDFs are something of an artform. Mine are all stored in the cloud, which means I try my best to keep them small. At work, we have a big Xerox Apeos machine, which produces small, yet clear PDFs. At home, my Canon MX860 / Nitro PDF combo, even with everything optimised for compact files, still produces PDFs…

Viewing the opera portal page through Opera 10.5 says "You are not using the Opera browser" followed by a download button. A browser that cannot identify itself - good start!

Does this app, or indeed any ad blocking app such as Adblock in Firefox, actually stop the ad from hitting your PC or does it just suppress it visually?