Well, the residents of a 9.83 million km^2 area of North America use Fahrenheit ever time they check their local weather report. ;)

Well, sure. I never talk about it be 273 degrees Kelvin when it snows. That just gets me strange looks. Well, stranger than normal.

If more app developers actually sold versions of their apps, rather than relying solely on ad revenue, I'd be paying more out of pocket. Angry Birds is a good example. You can't buy an add-free license from Google Play, but you can from the Amazon Appstore.

I'm with you. I'd even be a happy camper if AT&T's plan was $15 for 1GB and $10 for each GB thereafter. The town I'm in, public WiFi is limited in availability.

But, if you look down the hallway, you'd see that the new sliding door looks similar in color to at least 1 other door in the house.

I wouldn't have a problem going metric. But, after years of working in a research lab, I don't have much of a problem with being "bilingual."

As far as "sensitive documents" go, I've been using Truecrypt, Dropbox and Boxcryptor for a while, and it works well. I believe I read about Boxcryptor on Lifehacker...

I'm going to go with Fahrenheit. 325C = 617F. I'm not even sure my oven gets that hot.

You're welcome. Good luck. Health insurance ain't cheap, and I'm already dreading the bill from this weekend (family health issue that got more complicated than anyone, including the physician, expected).

Some professional organizations provide a health insurance group plan for their members who are self-employed or don't otherwise have insurance. Your biggest savings would be to get into a group plan, like The Fu suggested.

Granted, I'm having another one of my "why didn't I think of that?" moments.

This goes squarely in the "why didn't I think of that myself" file.

The point of the article is it would be a real pain for my wife to get access to my Google account after I die. My point about mentioning LastPass is that I can proactively avoid it.

Or, use LastPass to share passwords. If my wife needs to get into my account, she can get into my account. She's already got the password.

You can use Winamp portably. But it's not a PortableApps installer file.

There are ways around the password concern, e.g., LastPass. Still, I have better things to do with my dropbox space than store apps.

I have a tackle box in my trunk full of office supplies. Pens, pencils, paper, markers, stapler, scissors, paper clips, binder clips, duct tape, masking tape, Scotch tape, rubber bands - they're all in there. As are a couple of disposable plastic ponchos, just in case.

A linux install named after a James Bond villain? +1

Don't forget the damage the salt water will do when it gets on the leather of your shoes.

The standard accepted etiquette in the US has, for decades, been to place your knife and fork on the plate. The tines of the fork should be facing up, and the knife should be facing in. This helps prevent injury to the wait staff from the edge of the knife and the fork is more stable than if placed tines-down, so its…