@CaptainCynic: even so, 72% of people will believe you

@Maveritchell: wow that's old, I heard this from a friend, who must have been a fan of dilbert

40% of all sick leave is taken on a Monday or a Friday, that's almost HALF!

Tip #1 is highly highly not recommended, you'd be in fact SAFER using your misspellings as passwords.

I enjoy not having any clutter, and for that reason minimalism appeals to me, but I've come to the conclusion that some hobbies and interests are not compatible with minimalism.

Wait...the article has nothing to do with the title.

@Rohan Kapoor: that might have something to do with your flash drive speed, or more likely the file-system on your flash drive - Unison handles FAT filesystems a lot slower than EXT filesystems. You can speed things up by setting one of the flags (fastcheck), but this risks missing some updates according to the…

This is great, but from personal experience, I have to warn anyone attempting to use this to sync more than one client, because that would cause multiple multiple headaches.

See also: Cockney Rhyming Slang

I'm surprised they didn't mention Occam's Razor.

The light-based alarm clock is good, at one point I had my computer's BIOS power up in the morning, and it was either the glow from the monitor, the gentle whirr of the fans, or a combination of both which woke me up, far more gently than the abrasive sound of the alarm clock which always makes me panic first thing.

@neverbeenback: Yes, I'm aware of that, the vac only builds up static in the hose (since dust bouncing around on the way up), so I hold the vac and use a soft brush to lift the dust off the surface; the dust gets sucked into the vac instead of settling everywhere later. It's quite safe unless you start jabbing around…

@kb: many many programs...

Finally an automated method, thanks LH! Ever since I started using Linux, I've had to do manually on Windows for years

I use a vac because I don't have compressed air. I think it's probably better to get rid of the dust rather than leaving it in the air. Unfortunately it's not as good as compressed air at lifting dust from a surface, damn you fluid dynamics!

@nutbastard: unfortunately I don't have fat wads of cash to pad mine out a little...

In case anybody was interested, this is the said wallet. Thickness is ok in this picture, but add bulky British pound coins in the mix and bulgy pockets result.

If you decided to rip out a working hard drive from your iPod (like if you upgraded your iPod drive capacity), you'll now have a 1.8" hard drive on your hands which you might be wondering what you could do with.

I've been using Prey on Android for a bit now, I would say that the more useful feature is that you can set Prey to SMS the phone number of any new SIM that is inserted into your phone to another number. So even if a thief replaces the SIM card, you'll have the new phone number you can use to report, or run your…

@xtcomp: one wire coathanger, straighten, estimate and bend by hand. No tools required, pretty sturdy.