I came her to say exactly this.

I think the most important thing here is to either commit to it or commit not to use it. If you don't like the idea of using salty language, don't try to slip it in, because you will just sound awkward and pathetic.

In matters of religion, there is not only the choice of viewpoint (i.e. Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, whatever) but also the degree of passion attached to it (i.e. Monk, regular churchgoer, attends on holidays, hasn't darkened a church's doorstep in years, etc).

I have a few thoughts about PCs.

One of the diseases of my employer is that meetings are usually scheduled to start, and stop, at the top of the hour. If you have two back-to-back meetings, you either leave one early or get to the other late. The other is that they don't stop when they are scheduled, because (a) they got started late (b) they…

I don't hate Windows as much as I used to do, but it is not my primary operating system. Win 7 is installed on one machine of mine, but it is secondary boot to Linux.

There is also Republic Wireless: [republicwireless.com]

Obvious Troll is obvious . . . .

"and someone where to see it, "

As a heavy Dropbox user, I recommend that someone should periodically make a backup. Dropbox is usually pretty reliable, but every now and then it hiccups and stuff can get lost.

I like to prepend "so-called" to any reference to so-called-standard time. My thinking is: how can we call it standard when we spend the minority of the year complying with it?

Rather than relying on (notoriously unreliable) headphone jack switches to set off the alarm, you could short the conductors of the headphone cable together (you're going to butcher it anyway) and set up a normally-closed alarm circuit. When the plug is pulled, it opens the circuit, and the alarm goes off.

Okay, so what do you do when you are at work?

I had some issues with the thumb drive creator on that version. However, if you boot up an old version (I used 8.04) and use it to run the thumb drive creator, but provide it a 10.04 ISO, it will work fine.

"Once, we let a co-worker drive home when it was obvious that he probably should not. "

Yep, public speaking is difficult. Even a practiced public speaker gets muy nervous in front of a crowd.

Also beware bottled tea. Quite frequently, the sweetened varieties have a boatload of calories. I can make a similar quantity of iced tea, using real ice and real tea, and real sugar, and get it under 1/4 the calories of the bottled tea, while tasting every bit as sweet.

True, but then you would have to turn the power to the amp back on before the power button on the remote would work. For remote-controlled amps, the IR approach is, I think, the best way.

Ooh! I like it! I'm sure that there is probably some solution that can be hacked together using an old computer, Linux and Asterisk.

Having thumbed the touchpad while my mouse pointer was over the submit button just yesterday, something like this would be useful, but . . .