I bought a generator & transfer box from Amazon, and had the transfer box installed by an reasonable electrician. All in all, it cost under $1000. Now when the power goes out, I still have fridge, heat (gas but electricity is needed for blower), sump pumps (critical), and a working AC outlets in the kitchen and…

"If you have so many options, you're life doesn't suck. "

"If you have so many options, you're life doesn't suck. "

I recommend anyone 'make 2 weeks work' - any more than that and the employee and employer procrastinate on the transition. It should become 'urgent' to get the shorttimer out of there and her replacement IN as soon as possible to provide minimal disruption.

Um, won't this artificially bump pageviews and (AdSense!) adrev for the sites which are preloaded but not clicked?w

Gee, just enough to buy their Apple iWork and iLife upgrades. How generous.

Bacon tartare for everyone! YAY!

The trend that worries me the most is the biggest juggernaut in software today - iOS - can only be developed on a single hardware platform (Mac), a single OS (Mac OS X), a single IDE (XCode), and in a single language (Objective-C), must be hand-approved by a single authority (Apple), requires payment and authenticated…

The problem is that if you tether to a 3G WiFi device, your tether will die before the iPad does.

Sandy Bridge MacBooks should not be delayed by the issue. The chipset issue only affects 2 of the 4 SATA ports. I don't think any MacBooks use more than 2. Intel isn't recalling notebook chipsets in vendor channels, they are just advising that they not be used. Only desktop chipsets are being recalled.

I want to see a video of the driver trying to exit the car in that position.

Rats can climb walls?

It never made any sense to begin with - ingredients appear on packing in order of % of content.

I ask Google first, then evaluate results based on my interpretation of the context.

For me, the value of the internet is having a massive, up-to-the-second indexed wealth of content, and the tools to weed out 99% of the noise to get to the 4 pieces of topical content a day which uniquely interest me.

um, all the enemy needs is an 11 killstreak for the EMP necessary to render this weapon permanently defenseless.

whew thank goodness they got rid of those dangerous explosives and just need a perfectly safe nuclear reactor!

@cha0tic: That's the first rule of bad consulting. Even if you throw up your hands and absolve yourself of responsibility, part of a consultant's job is to use your outsider status to clearly identify obstacles and be creative about circumventing them.

Sounds completely manufactured in order to pump up pricing, not uncommon in the industry.

@EljhHck: Bring yours to NYC, once in Manhattan every device on the iPhone acts like its in the Bermuda Triangle - voice, data, GPS and compass all suck.