I would not recommend this method. It literally cooks the herb. Causing the essential oils to degrade and bake off themselves.

VOTE: MythTV

VOTE: pricegrabber.com

I am extremely happy with my N810, tethered with my phone. But a $200 netbook might finally get me to buy a laptop.

A fantasy of mine is to link my parents' network with mine. They live less then a mile away but I do not have line-of-sight. So I watch posts like these with some fascination.

Strange that the idea of an antenna repeater with line-of-sight was not mentioned. Some people have had wicked good luck with this.

I read _A_LOT_ of electronic based articles, periodicals and books. I happen to read a lot of paper based books as well. I would say that having electronic versions are way more convenient for periodicals and articles then for books (do you honestly more then one book at a time). But I would say that having electronic…

Yes, when there have been issues with my DVR auto-deleting stuff I haven't watched. Using bittorrent is way easier then going to a site and watching the show on my desktop.

I started my career on VMS and SunOS. And in '97, when starting graduate school I was stuck in a situation where I needed X11 to do my homework. I installed slack and wound up using Linux for everything I did except play games. Now I even play my games (What's Up Wesnoth) on Linux.

VOTE: pwsafe

I have already been bike commuting for about 10 years. So there was little change in the way that I drove. I did start paying very close attention to the price at the stations and figured out which ones were cheaper near me pretty darned quick.

VOTE: unison

VOTE: gnucash

The best part of google reader iPhone beta is that it works for other small computers too (like my Nokia N810!).

Using the iPhone reader interface on the Nokia N810 - FTW!

VOTE: Vim

VOTE DVDFab

GVim with Cream is the way to go for newbies.

Wait a second!? No mention of unison.

It should be said that commercial skip is built right into MythTV. It works surprisingly well. On top of that, MythTV has a audio/video playback feature where you can either slowdown or speedup the playback of a program. So not only do you shave off all of the commercial time, but you play back the show faster.…