agreed, if you're going to use the am/pm you don't need leading zeros. Not that it could ever be 0100 hours in the afternoon

turns out this has nothing to do with Emily Deschannel

if you're already committed to getting it, do so before Jan 31 when the $40 download promo price expires

3 words - brine, brine, brine

Don't load them down with too much info either. If they have to turn left at the 4th light, you probably don't need to list all the streets in between or get overly specific with lane assistance unless it's especially tricky. Exit number, number of lights, left/right, and road names should be plenty.

yes, the stupid logitech k360 I've been using/hating has the pause/break combined with the END key I don't recall ever seeing a keyboard with a separate pause and break key though.

I loved Scotland yard as a board game, haven't played it in years though. I may have to go dig it out.

yeah, there's lots of us.

it's their new disaster plan, each of those articles is on a different server

Windows key + Break works pretty quick - they added one more click to get to it starting in Vista. But, from XP backwards, it's bazinga quick

in the video at the end it looked like he didn't have anything newer than N64.

so how do you get 100MB message if the attachment limit is 25MB? 25 MB worth of pictures from grandma and 75 MB worth of text explaining how Microsoft will give you money if you forward this email to everyone?

it's a nice idea and I realize they're in a small space, but that desk is way too shallow for me.

It's more retro than metro, but it works

that was a nice surprise. It has a nice feature if you're making a large file transfer, and you do a smaller task, it temporarily grows to twice its heights to include a progress bar for the second operation as well and then shrinks back down when finished. Looks a lot nice than having several small dialog boxes.

it's the simplified start menu

oh, please don't plug Simple TV, that thing is a piece of garbage. I'd rather hook up a VCR

give him a break - it's not like the name was spelled out in the .. oh nevermind

just as long as they make it loud enough, that was the biggest annoyance last time I went to the theater. And I would definitely be willing to pay more for their popcorn too.

lmfao - I missed those stories