@Peter Dahl: Except that it does get people talking and sharing their ideas and experiences. You get out of it what you put into it.

I am a binge cleaner that repeatedly declares "I'm never gonna let this mess happen again" — which, it seems, will be perpetually spoken by myself until the end of time. Or at least until the end of MY time, whichever is first.

How would you suggest that I conquer my fear of failure? My self-esteem is taking a pounding because of it.

Mis-read the Hive Five question ergo I change my vote to

vote:router

Hmm — further research shows me that DD-WRT will support my router. I just finished reading the instructions on how to do the firmware install. I must say that even though I am confident in doing many things in a computer environment, I am going to pass on this. My GI (geek index) is falling not unlike the value of…

What I don't understand is that according to Tomato's list of supported routers, the WRT54GS is supported only to version 4. I have a version 6 router.

In the FWIW department:

64-bit Vista question:

I'm not getting this at all. I have XP Pro, and all I need to do is right-click and select Rename and that's it. I still have all of the Manage, Find, Map Network Drive etc., in the context menu.

Microsoft's Natural Keyboard Elite for me. I've gone through at least four of them at work.

@Dan Cardin: Same here.

@The Consultant: I was thinking virtually the same thing. Well said.

@LifesSweetDrug: Media Monkey will do that for you.

I had Media Monkey Gold for quite some time and I liked it for all aspects - renaming - organizing - play lists - the usual. I found the tagging to be quite good but rather onerous. Often when faced with multiple possibilities there was a lot of manual work to do to sort through and select an album or track name.

Does anyone really:

Wow...we Canucks have a similar show on our own History Channel that is entering its second season. The Reinventors has been taking plans from Da Vinci and others to see if those machines really could work. They even built a solar crematorium with an old satellite dish.

"It had beta work or I'm gonna be teed off about it!" :p

@ChrisMichael: Thanks — I don't know if my family has access to Skype on the computers that they use in the internet cafes, but I'll check that out.

@Nuclear Moose: And then my comments magically appear, making me look like a complete doofus... [spins propeller on beanie]