@mulletmandan: Beat me to it! Does this mean that Lifehacker is trying to save me from itself?

@philselmer: Well, but using the appliance strap and a stud in your wall, you avoid permanently marring the piece of furniture on which the TV sits.

Houseproofing your child should be the goal. But do you really want to put your expensive electronics at risk in the process? Toddlers are quick, and creative. And, like msisaac wrote, you don't always have time to react.

@jrmontag: I know what you mean about the green alarm clock. My solution was to physically darken it. Baby stores sell plastic sun shades that stick to the inside of the car's window (around $5.00). Two layers of that and an exacto knife, and I had a nicely dimmed alarm clock.

Anything we have to directly access to use is in our stereo cabinet behind a lockable glass door - VCR, DVD, xbox, etc. The TV cabinet has 3 open shelves. So I cut a piece of hobby lexan to cover the shelves, moved the cable box and amplifier to the TV cabinet, and then hold the lexan in place with some child-safety…

The title of this article is misleading, as there is no information presented for those of us who prefer that our ties not extend below the points of our collars.

@doghead: I didn't mean to suggest that you hadn't tried it. I was just pointing out that I'm not experiencing the same problem. No offense intended.

A) I need to practice reading for comprehension so that I don't repeat what others have writen.

@Doghead: You can eject an iPod through the context menu by right-clicking on it in Windows Explorer and clicking "eject."

I hate to say I've become a humbug, but I explicitly avoid some activities during this month to avoid tipping people I don't even know.

I save most of my passwords in an encrypted volume from which I run Portable Firefox with a slew of saved passwords. Password to the volume is long and convoluted and a mishmash of languages. So most things are safe.

Talk about unintended consequences and decisions.

@witeowl: "Never, ever" is awfully strong. I have, in fact, filled an entire slide with small text from top to bottom and been pleased with the result.

Cool! I was looking for something like this.

I find that with Quizo's TabBar, Tool Bar, and Address Bar tools, Explorer does everything that I need. Tabbar has been updated recently, and the improvements are good.

Dangers of exploding gas vapors due to cell phone use were on an episode of Mythbusters. Those of us who like to see things go "boom" were sorely disappointed.

A few programs, but none of them free - although they're not horribly expensive.

Well, we old farts may have cleaned our closets, but the scrapbookers can probably take up where we left off.

For those of us who prefer RPN to infix notation, Calculator.NET is a great little program.

I plan to always use a docking station for my laptop (we currently have one for each of our Thinkpads at home). You can tie up and "hide" your cables once, and you don't have to replug everything when you take the laptop for a walk.