This is a cool idea, but it's just too buggy and annoying to use.

I've been using [gotomypc.com] for several years. Even after I became aware of free alternatives, it works so well that it didn't seem worth switching. I think the interface easily meets the older-parent interface test. If you're seeking to be the remote support guy for your non-tech parent(s), all they have to be…

@TheFu: Thank you; these paragraphs could easily replace virtually every piece of advice I've read on the web regarding weight loss for the past five years. When I've done them, I lose weight. When I don't, I don't.

Wow, I'd be surprised if many states allow this. When picking jurors, I tend to avoid people who most obviously don't want to be there, but a close runner-up on the undesirable list is someone who seems to WANT to be selected too much. This is a huge and complex field, but suffice it to say that one of the biggest…

I can hear it coming now: "What's an audio tape?" #tips

Vote: Carbonite #onlinebackup

@badger500: Couldn't have said it better. I feel your pain, man.

(the email provided by your cable company, for example—which we'd never recommend even our worst enemies use).

Of all the sites I've tried, I agree that [radiotime.com] works the best. But I also agree that this would be an excellent subject for a HiveFive!

@edmenard: Yes, precisely my thought. Thank you, that needed to be said.

Although this technique is not unreasonable and may be fine in other contexts, the idea of starting a new employment relationship with a lie makes my skin crawl. Plus, I'm such a bad liar that any skilled interviewer would see right through it.

So, bottom line, is there any value at all to an extension whose purpose is to alert when you've loaded a web page that uses scripts to track your information, if it alerts on every page load? Not trying to be obnoxious, I just don't understand what good this does?

Sears has an excellent site for replacement parts for most appliances (not just their own brands): [tinyurl.com] Even more useful are the exploded diagrams showing all the parts; once you see them in this fashion, you're often half-way there to figuring out how to fix the thing.

It's fast and beautiful. But without Roboform support, I'm lost. I'll take it out on special trips, but for my everyday ride, I have to stay with Firefox....

VOTE: SimpleGTD

Wow, I just read a short story and it was surprisingly not bad. I kind of liked the format, even...

@vahju- for harmonica check out [www.volcano.net]

Looks great. Anyone know of any equivalent sites/tutorials for Photoshop Elements?

Any advice for us poor shnoobs with hours and hours of home movies of the kiddies on miniDV tapes, and with no working camera to use as a player to get them into a digital format? Every time I approach this project and see my decaying stack of irreplaceable video tapes on my shelf, I'm overcome with shame....

And the link is working now. In case anyone wants to read a long blog post about moleskins and how they improve your productivity.