Peace out, yo.

@Tyghtty: Agreed, no problems with it.

@jackburnt: "but I stiiiiilll... haven't foooound... what I'm lookin' forrrrr...". Easy- U2! ;)

Liehacker - Geek to Lie™

@puka_pai: Careful on not cleaning the catbox, or your cats will find their own space to put their "gifts" ;)

@JustMeJosh: "Upgrade your Life" :)

My wife just canned seven quarts of homemade apple pie filling last week. Great stuff and very easy.

@mjs: meh

Dump the cellphone

+1 for Voltron reference

@madara: I do the same thing, and use a post-it note to write it on. I find this keeps me focused on just a few things instead of a whole page full of clutter.

@Dangger: Or, based on your examples, they don't want to.

I practice the same concept but digitally. I have one Excel file that has different worksheets for different topics (budget, insurance, to do, etc.). Works for me...

VOTE: WinKey

@Muscar: It looks like the Embedded Windows theme (Google it).

@Vhalkyrie: Agreed.

@Lodril: I'm not sure if this is going to be helpful, but if you right-click on a shortcut and go to the Shortcut tab, you can select "minimized" from the Run drop-down menu. Now when you launch the app/document from that shortcut, it will start out minimized. I'm not sure on the background request, but there's got to…

@joelena: More like adios... What's next- "Peegans" that recycle their own waste?! Are we living on Dune now?

I have a funny story about this topic. One worker in my company was preparing to leave on his vacation (he had already turned on his Out of Office assistant in Outlook). He decided to send a quick note to a co-worker (who had already activated his own OoO assistant). The message unintentionally bounced back and forth…

@jwalker: Some corporate email filters will stop outgoing messages (like out of office replies) some exiting the firewall- this is useful for letting co-workers you're out while avoiding the problems you mention above. Our works by including a specific text string in the OoO note. When the filter sees that string, it…