Schedule interruptions. If I'm swamped I'll put a sign in the window of my office saying "busy, available at 1:00 or via email" and just keep outlook off for an hour or so. If anything is "mission critical" (ewww, corporate lingo) I'll get a phone call.

@shrikedoa: Wouldn't the black-on-white show up better than silver-on-black in the dimness which lies beneath the desk?

@savedsoul: Thanks for clarifying. I'll admit to knowing just enough to be dangerous, and not much more.

Make sure to wash it as the solder has lead in it.

I got two old cast-off GPS units from my dad a couple months ago. I have since taken the kids geocaching a number of times and they have all enjoyed it. So far I've got a few here in CA, a few in Reno and a few in Des Moines (Can you save the Princess?).

Wasn't floating the net a few months ago?

I've got one that has over 300 slides. Of course, that is for an entire week's worth of training.

I second blindbug, get a backpack. One walk across O'Hare and you'll be a believer. As for the contents of mine:

This is just a php page, right? So anything with a small screen that hits the web should benefit. Anyone with a web browsing DS want to test it out?

We do this for my son and it seems to help. He works for 10 minutes and then gets to read for fun for 10 minutes.

I use this when I'm teaching. Often times the folks in the back of the room can't make out what I'm typing into entry fields on the projector and this just helps them along. You may need to turn it off pretty quick when you're done using it though, as I've had a few students complain of sea-sickness if they watch…

What about mailing to yourself with the autotagger?

I'm actually a technical trainer and am commenting from a portable version of Firefox running off my iPod. I live off this thing. Powerpoint has the ability to save the slides as jpges which I have synched over along with shots of my kids. Those are there for backup incase something happens to my laptop. I also…

I love this for my news sites and for my email. One thing to remember though is to turn it off when you go to compose mail or a comment. Otherwise, Murphy's Law states that it will refresh just as you are typing your last few let..@#@^&#@^&#

We get this today... Most US schools teach Spain Spanish, not Mexico Spanish. I've been told this is like learning British English vs Southern English.

We actually did build one using the left over carpet from my folks house. It worked great until we moved and it ended up occupying too much good floor space. I ended up pulling the levels apart and mounting/hanging it in the corner above the couch. The cats love to sit up there and look out the window and we love…