I recently had to replace my Thinkpad X60 Tablet's battery. It didn't have a lot of wear on it, or else it probably would have failed during the "recall period" a couple of years back, and I'd have gotten a new battery. On the other hand, it was 4 years old.

I've bought batteries from a refill service. While functional, not all battery packs lend themselves to being refilled. My Thinkpad refill worked great, but the plastic housing was reassembled poorly and separated after very little use, once the batteries started getting hot from drain and charge.

It's funny how often information like this is rediscovered by accident. My mom taught me this "trick" in the 1970s. Beans and cornbread are an old family tradition.

It is "superfluous" in Windows 7, if your flash drive is NTFS. If it's FAT32, not ejecting the drive causes the OS to constantly ask you to scan the drive, unless you disable that notification. But not everyone has admin rights.

It's worthless to you, iyho. In my opinion, it's unfortunately necessary information. I work with a number of people who still struggle with what I consider to be basic computer use.

@korpo: The change in my diet wasn't "cutting sweets." My decision was to remove HFCS from the diet. Yes, that meant that my overall sugar intake went down. But the only sugar I cut was HFCS. It is entirely related. I continued to use honey and sugar as before.

I lost 15 pounds with one change to my diet. I've cut out HFCS, as much as possible. This includes HFCS sweetened pop and baked goods. Many breads have HFCS in them, which surprised me. Many vending machine pastries have HFCS, which doesn't surprise me.

I use fewer apps on a regular basis than I carry around with me on my phone.

I wish it had event categories. The multiple calendar system is really annoying, particularly if I want to share with someone else. Share one calendar and give them the whole picture? Nope. You've got to share 'em all.

VOTE: Outlook 2010

Interesting idea, but will they dry out completely between showers? Otherwise, they're just going to get ever more saturated. Placed as they are, you've limited exposed surface area, so evaporation will be limited for each cork.

Agreed. We buy TP in bulk because it's convenient, not because it's necessarily the cheapest option.

@Trellis23 - the school here tries to discourage paper and pen editing and commenting. Many professors annotate drafts of dissertations electronically, rather than printing them out. PDFs prevent incompatibility issues, but they don't allow editing of text.

I find whole grain pasta to be more filling. It takes longer for me to get hungry after a meal of whole grain pasta, than a comparable meal of "regular" pasta. That's why I like it.

I asked IT about Outlook Anywhere several months ago. It's not going anywhere anytime soon. :(

Yep. Also Eudora and Pegasus.

Outlook 2010 searches quite nicely, in my experience. I'm not particularly concerned about rendering HTML in email. It shouldn't be there anyway, in my opinion. But I'm an old fogey.

You can set up IMAP on Exchange, but it is not required. Our Exchange server at work has IMAP disabled. You can get your email through Outlook when connected to the local net work, Outlook Web Access when you're off site, or through activesync on a phone/tablet.

I work at a private academic institution. Trying to save money for students, OpenOffice was once recommended. But it caused so many cross-program problems with Microsoft Office that it is now actively discouraged.

Because they're getting ready to party like it's 1999?