I got my Amazon shipping notice at 7:45 PM CST on the 10th. I guess that's one more book that will push the others down in the stack until it's finished. But I got to tell you, "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions" (book, site) is pretty awesome, and will be really hard to put down.…

Same here. I've used it for repetitive code in several languages for years. It's about halfway between writing it all out yourself or writing a script to generate the code for you. Some of the text editors with good column modes (thinking of UltraEdit especially, and Visual Slickedit) are good for this kind of thing…

@Gina Trapani: Sez you. I liked the cover of the first one. It reminded me of old-skool cyberpunk imagery.

For me, remembering things comes down to not remembering things: I write it down, period, no exceptions, if I want to remember it. I ask people for cards, or ask them to spell their name for me. No one has freaked out yet when I explain it's the only way I can remember stuff. I transfer notes to my Treepad file at…

There aren't many books I'd order without at least reading the back cover. The first edition was so good that I'll buy this one no questions asked. I'm really looking forward to it.

I second Resource Hacker.

@Tom-LH: I have used VideoRedo for about a year now. I love it. It's not free, but it's been worth it to me. I record several TV shows and many movies per week with my TV card. It records to MPG format, and VideoRedo is the best way I've found to edit them. (It is MPG-only). It has commercial scan, and very fast…

@daniel.j.doughty: Excellent idea. I think I'll start using that one too.

@noftheta: I don't use Ableton and Pro Tools, but I do use Sonar, Reason, Recycle, and a few others in a VM. I don't do much recording with it any more though, just straight compose-by-mouse. I know this machine, though a couple years old, is still a powerhouse. The MBP is even faster, though, and is the fastest…

@TJOHO: I use VMWare Fusion + VMWare Workstation. I also use the freeware version of vOptimizer [www.vizioncore.com] every once in a while, and it keeps my VMs smaller than the drudgery of defrag/prepare/shrink/defrag.

Like Remi, I've also made task-specific VMs. I've also installed all "activation-required" software into VMs so that if I have to re-install my host OS, I don't have to re-activate. Acrobat especially is a pain with re-activation. If I need to travel, I can copy my work VM from an XP desktop over to my MacBook Pro.

@jonnydover: @longbourne: So do you have a specific complaint about naturopaths or the advice in the article? You've thrown out generic insults, but given nothing specific or verifiable. Are you responding to something you know about them, or to a stereotype?

I used something way easier for years:

@rogermexico: I too am baffled at the bickering over eyeglass prescriptions. I had two eyeglass shop employees tell me on two separate occasions that those were exactly like a medical prescription and they wouldn't take one over a year old. Just crazy. We used to grind lenses in Boy Scouts and physics classes. Hardly…

@That Bastid: And if I wear anything *but* polycarb lenses, everything looks flat and I lose the ability to judge distance easily.