Apparently people are still confused about what is going on. Adobe requires customers to activate their software via their activation servers, yet when products get old, they reach a scheduled end-of-life for support. Rather than saying, "suck it up and upgrade," they're saying "you're our customers and you're…

I have a physical copy. You jelly?

Just wear whatever you would wear if you were going to be there in person.

As a father, when my child gets old enough to start to get exposed to advertising, I'll find it worthwhile to spend a small amount of cash to prevent him from getting exposed to copious advertising. As much as we like to think that we are immune to advertising, statistics suggest otherwise. The mental clarity and…

This Chick-fil-a stuff is getting painful.

It's been about a decade since a significant improvement has been made to craigslist, yet now they are getting legally trigger happy.

Protip: If you take your iced coffee sweetened and with half-and-half, refrigerate the coffee black. Make simple syrup (1 cup sugar to 1 cup boiling water) and refrigerate that too. Mix a spoonful of the syrup and a splash of half and half to a tall cup.

The Songza iPhone app. Mood-based, curated, hand-selected playlists that end up being perfect.

+1, Wisconsin is awesome. Great food. Great people. Beautiful scenery and tons of diners. Only thing that sucks is when it is January and you are from Georgia. Seriously a walk from the parking lot into a restaurant was like getting punched in the gut.

I encounter enough mistakes on a day to day basis and generally they come from not doing sufficient research or checking my work. There is really no need to encourage mistakes

Looked up bettersnaptool and bought it. Worth it

I moved this past month in-town and I got tons of help by just asking like this in a group email to friends:

I am prone to disagree with this one. Ultimately, if there is a reason that you would get email that needs to be seen, you are going to have to check it anyway. It is better to unsubscribe and if emails continue, filter them to the trash.

This is horrible advise. Let the employer throw it away without reading if it must be so, but it absolutely is considered desirable by an employer.

The science is not conclusive enough to state with certainty that BPA bottles are not harmful:

If your work increases, you can make a difficult-to-refute argument for a pay increase.

If you don't like the product, why are you downloading it?

Walmart is the cheapest in my region.

Another potential issue is that coiling a cable can induce undesirable magnetic fields that degrade the audio quality for analog signals. Non-analog cables should be no problem though.

For us, the math just worked out better for us buying without 20% down. We pay $9,000/year in rent, and we are getting a deal. Buying a home raises out current monthly payments by about $200 a month. If we were to save until we had 20%, we would have to wait at least 1 or 2 years, which translates to $18,000 lost just…