Dave has one of those jobs that can't be summed up in one word. He's not a doctor. He's not a plumber. He's not even an astronaut. He works at one of the world's largest energy companies supports a variety of projects designed to improve business efficiencies.

Interesting. I'm going to be heading out for a run in the next hour or so, so I'll give it a go. I've always been conscious of my breathing patterns when I've run, but I've never mapped it to my strides.

I'm constantly jiggling my leg when I sit, and twirling pens in my hand. And I find it very difficult to sit still when on the phone - I'm much more comfortable walking around. I haven't noticed that this has helped with my weight. Maybe I should just be worried about how fat I'd be if I STOPPED fidgeting!

@Mark: Was thinking the same thing. But then again, I'm one of the "less tech-savy" so I'd like to hear the input from someone up to date with these things.

I can write in cursive if I need to - we were certainly taught at school (born '82). But I choose not to, as my non-cursive writing is just as fast and much more legible. It's as simple as that.

@Popstar Dave: Well, I did try it out tonight, and I've got to say that I really enjoyed my first ubuntu experience. I can't vouch for the VirtualBox side of this program, as I only set it up for basic booting from the USB, but as far as the OS itself goes, it's so smooth and clean that I think I'll enjoy getting my…

@Obfuscate Penguin: Brilliant. Thanks for the help. The persistence option does sound like a great way to get a bit more familiarity with the system, before jumping into an install.

Great timing with this. I've been planning on making my first steps with Ubuntu, but I'm stuck using a box without a CD drive in it at the moment.

That advice to swap "we" for "I" is super important. It's not something I was comfortable doing, but as soon as I did, I realised just how many opportunities I'd been missing out on before. You're the one doing good work. Don't give other people credit for the work that you've done, just because you've been brought…

@Tony Bullard: I'm with you 100% on this, Tony. There are a million ways that you'll get sick before hand-shakes. Like it or not, people think you're odd if you refuse to shake hands.

That reminded me of this old "Athiest's Nightmare" video, where the existence of God is proved with a banana.

This does seem like a fantastic idea. I recently bought an Ikea Besta bookcase, and now wish I'd kept the boxes to give this a go.

When I was a kid I heard a sleep theory from a friend who was doing his military service in Germany. The idea there was that four hours was the minimum sleep required each night, and that six was ideal - any more than that was lazy. I've lived by this ever since; with six hours being my standard sleep time each…

I know not everyone reads LH on FireFox, but I'd love to see a "Better Lifehacker Comments" addon that coud give people options to customise the comments layout as they wanted.

The original article is referring to trust in "Advertising" rather than trust in "News". I think if you re-ran your poll based on how much trust people have in the ads they see on the internet, as opposed to product recommendations from friends, you'd end up with a very different result.

Cell Phone Text ads as the least trusted?! I'd believe those over the email news I just received about the $45m I'm about to inherit if I just send my bank details Prof. Mgwali Nyalba.

I don't own a smart phone at the moment, but would certainly prefer something with a hardware keyboard over a software counterpart. The tactile distinction between keys is invaluable in subconscious error correction. It's almost impossible to touch-type without some form of tactical feedback.

It's great to have information like this getting out to people. There's a lot of bad first aid information floating around these days, and when that's combined with the stress of the situation, there are often some bad decisions made. LH has done some good work with this in the past, and I'd recommend refreshing…

@VwlsRFrWmps: FWIW, my story was based in Melbourne, Australia.

I eat out a fair bit, and have only rarely had to send things back, and almost always had good reactions from wait-staff. Once, however, I sent back some salt-and-pepper calamari, that turned up with undercooked, doughy and almost glue like batter. The server apologised, took it back to the kitchen, then returned…