In my last job I had no raise in 3 years, a 1% rise was overturned by a higher up. I lost that job anyway and since then I got a 25% raise without even asking from contract work and I already started on way more than when I was employed. If you want any sort of decent raise then you can't do it in employment.

Cover letters were always a pain but then so was the Resume as you have to tailor that as well anyway, especially if you have a rather mixed background in experience and qualifications. I have to admit after the amount of effort I put in without success I gave up on cover letters and the last job I got was from an…

Another advantage to giving up on employment, no more resume/CV updating. :)

I don't think I've used a snooze button in about 20 years. I get up when I naturally get up and if I really do have to be up at a certain time then I get up when my alarm goes because that's the time I'd worked out I needed to be up for.

Does anybody use both Evernote and OneNote? Maybe for different purposes?

Depends on the circumstance. I thought I had 1 month notice for my job here in UK but depending on what actually happens to your company/employer sometimes doesn't mean much. In my case I lost my job with no notice. I'm avoiding the typical employment thing as there's actually less job security in it, ironically. But…

I wouldn't describe that as a cheap version of anything. It's still a premium cost small mp3 player. Besides I don't think they'd want to "dilute" their product lines. Well not until they actually notice their market share is falling. "Cheapie" and Apple still seem like an oxymoron to me.

There's your problem right there, Apple will never do a "cheapie" version of anything.

I check my phone for emails notifications etc. At my computer first thing I do is check for project version control updates.

There's plenty of free offsite alternatives too, e.g. friends' drives. I've still not heard anything to justify the extra expense for a very small risk and that doesn't actually give you extra protection other than possibly fast recovery time (assuming the time is that urgent, and that the NAS itself is actually…

I still don't see the justification if it's already backed up offsite. In the context of having to deal with losing your home, getting all the gigabytes of data back immediately is going to be low down on list of priorities anyway, and the most important immediate files can be accessed straight away anyway. My NAS…

I'm not sure I'd ever spend extra money for a fireproof/waterproof version of something like this. Offsite storage is cheaper in case of something so disastrous that equates to a fire or flood in your home.

I don't have any quantitative data on my own productivity so it's more a sense that I'm less productive with only one screen. But one thing that's fact is my frustration level. I definitely feel much more frustrated with only one monitor and that can't be good.

Thanks, I think that was sort of my thinking of what I was planning.

Been waiting for the Whitson How we Work, always seems most in line with what I try to achieve. Speaking of which for my next pc build I'm planning on triple boot (exact same OSes you mentioned) but which method do you use to triple boot?

Actually on Windows 8 it is an anti-virus. It's not the same thing as Windows Defender Pre Win 8. It's a combination of MSE and Defender. That's why you can't install MSE on Windows 8.

I meant in the context of personal/home back up and ripping, of which the only allowable form is non-copy protected software programs. I.e. you're not allowed to rip your music CD to MP3 under current copyright law. I wasn't really talking about education environments which pretty much have their own copyright law…

Of course this will depend on juristiction. Here in the UK it's illegal to make a copy anyway. We don't even have a fair use clause (yet).

I do work in Gmail day to day and unless it's spam I don't delete anything. I do use labels and rules for more important stuff (contract clients, software keys etc), but the combination of not deleting anything and the power of GMail's search works extremely well and I think it would take more of my time to try and…

There is no free version of CS2. RTA!