I thought the point of the design was to be MORE ergonomic by letting you rest your hand more flatly on the top of it... sounds like he's just "doing it wrong" the way he's moving it.

I work in IT, and keep having to remove it from people's computers when it gets installed automatically.

@infamousjre: i've been looking for a good drive sleeve for a while, and am usually disappointed in the quality i find for the money. Almost all the sleeves or cases i've seen for a while are made of neoprene or some other kind of insulated rubber, just like a koozie. Yeah you probably should run it for long…

Yeah, I'm with wicked on this one... I was excited to try it but wow what a stinker... Even my iGoogle page is all broken, and that's just RSS feeds.

Plus, Pin Tab is back! Thank the Google Gods

One thing about these is that often what you have in the pic is so intriguing, and I find myself asking "wtf is that?!" But figuring out which of the 200 items on the page it might be is frustrating beyond belief. one this one it's the keyboard-ey thing in the middle with what might be a trackball... wtf is that?!

The first link to [videolan.org] is "broken" — looks like someone forgot to pay the domain fees...

@terabitten: That's a Word issue (MS changes the code to discourage use of things like OOo or Zoho.) Best solution? Don't send your stuff as docs... output to .rtf or something that is more universal.

ty for the Readability link. I've been using Instapaper to turn articles into something I can read later on my netbook when stuck offline. I just save them as html files and load them into the browser. Readability has more options for, well, easier readability.

I always see the situation with splinters like this: if the sushi artist takes offense that I have to rub the cheap breakaway chopsticks to avoid splinters, maybe they should invest in some reusable sticks for their patrons. If they give us the cheap crap, I have no problem on subtly calling them on it. Besides, I…

@infmom: Not at all. A sushi place we used to go to had the tradition of holding regular patrons' chopsticks in several long racks behind the bar. There is nothing wrong in carrying your own chopsticks when you dine out.

I was tempted to buy some of these when I was in Office Depot yesterday...

The one I've been looking at duplicating for a week or two now is the ModKat ([www.modkat.com]) and I just haven't had the time to get out and shop.

omg thank you... I got a ViewSonic VPD400 and needed a simple editor that would let me do a hard wrap on text. Notepad++ was way too complex, but Notepad2 is perfect.

@SigmundTheSeaMonster: I was just gonna say, a printable version is needed before I hook my mom back onto the interwebs. At least I got her running ubuntu now...

@TheFu: You just need to learn how to find those network shows. =j [eztv.it] is your fwiend.

I guess if I left PeerBlock running 24/7... hmmm. Of course, Blizzard doesn't like it when I play with that on.

Chrome for Linux is also sadly lacking, so no offline email unless I continue to keep an old copy of Firefox installed. =(

@conordml: That and keeping everything in the cloud instead of letting you have files on the drive itself are a big mistake. "I can't even boot up because we're on the freeway in Nebraska" is a big problem, and the way they describe the kernel check it sounds like without wifi, you can't even turn it on...

I don't see a big benefit to it over ubuntu. I've had a netbook for about a year now, running first 8.10 and now 9.04, and it's fast, lightweight, short boot-up, and everything else. Having to buy new hardware in order to use ChromeOS is a big mistake, I fear, and will limit the market drastically. If the new…