@nicholas1987ucsb: Most of the costs that have been incurred to date been tax cuts. But, in total, tax cuts in ARRA are $283.4B out of $862B, or 33.8% in total.

@nicholas1987ucsb: Regarding the Washington Post article: Same authors. Same data. Same criticism.

@nicholas1987ucsb: Thats why the chart doesn't include the $3T figure you originally said we spent.

@nicholas1987ucsb: "The stimulus is going to cost $20 billion dollars .... "

@nicholas1987ucsb: The article to which you link is, in fact, extracted from the book I've already mentioned. This is noted in the copyright information at the bottom of the article - and by the fact that Stiglitz and Bilmes are identified as the authors of both works.

@nicholas1987ucsb: We haven't spent $3T in Iraq and Afghanistan. The congressional allocation is around $1.09T to date - admittedly no small amount. But not all of that was "borrowed" spending, either. Some came out of the existing DOD budget.

@aec007: I like that graph for what it illustrates. But I always think it should have a footnote that a minor portion of the 2009 was the result of Bush Administration policy.

@Celtic1888: What do the following have in common?

@wladov: Actually, Sen. McCain was praised in the 2000 election for opening his campaign up to and recognizing the contributions of bloggers. McCain understood the power of modern means of communciation, likely more than his critics want to give credit. He was the first to really seek out online outlets for spreading…

OMG! Wesley Crusher's teachin' us electronics stuff!

@belak: Yeah, but on older Thinkpads (T20, T23, etc.), you could swap out the CMOS battery without disassembling the danged thing. It was under the battery.

@RighteousDork: HomeSwitcher works wonders. Now if I could just find a nice Exchange widget to replace the HTC Sense Mail app, I'd be rockin'.

@RighteousDork: Just found out about HomeSwitcher yesterday. I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

We recover vertical storage space with shoe shelves. They don't just have to go on the floor, you know. Adding one on top of the shelf gives me three shelf levels on which to store stuff above the hanging clothes.

Nice concept, but way too small on my Aria's little screen.

@Truefire: Installing wasn't the problem. Overriding Sense was.

@Terry: I understand Microsoft's effort to make Office easier for the "uninitiated to use." As often happens, however, when you change software to appeal to a basic user, you take away things that appealed to "power users." I can guarantee that I was the only person in my office to customize the Office 2003 toolbar,…

@Platypus Man: I stopped using folders and went with "Smart Shortcuts." Works like folders, but lets me have different icons, and lists things alphabetically rather than in the order I added them.

@damis648: HTC Sense on my Aria won't let me set Launcher Pro as the default. it always reverts to Sense.

@Terry: What I'm saying is that I, personally, find the menubar/toolbar model to be more efficient - without extensive customization. And, on the basis of daily usage, efficiency matters more to me than intuitiveness.