Forgot one key thing: choice. Android covers the gamut of sizes, specs, formats... You can really pick the phone that you want, not just the one Jony Ives decided everyone should use. Me, I like 2-day batteries, an SD slot, and a reasonable price.

I always thought it was to provide jobs for the highy-skilled paperclip benders ? They're even more skilled than the toothpaste-tube stuffers !

Another time, I was idling in a mall, when a 7-ish kid playing airplane whizzed by, without a care in the world (I think he was a jet !), and no parents in sight. I figured the parents wouldn’t be far behind, and simply watched over the kid who kept happily at his game, abnout 5 minutes went by. Then a girl from a…

I found a neat trick: was babysitting my 3yo nephew a few years ago. He fell, and indeed after the usual small delay, started crying. Since the fall seemed totally benign and the crying a bit... recycled... I had time to think, so instead of playing mother hen, I just asked “him are you crying because you’re hurting,…

I found a neat trick: was babysitting my 3yo nephew a few years ago. He fell, and indeed after the usual small delay, started crying. Since the fall seemed totally benign and the crying a bit... recycled... I had time to think, son instead of playing mother hen, I just asked him are you crying because you're hurting,…

It doesn't work for me ? on Google.com in Chrome ?

Step 0: get widgets so your Home screen gets filled with glanceable useful info and notifications/.

I don't think there's a one-size fits-all answer, because managing the budget is about cutting the non-essentials, and that depends on your priorities: the place, the activities, a sport, the people, the culture, the booze, the facebook posts, the music... ?

Don't forget backups. You need to get at least one extra, external drive, that you occasionnaly (weekly ?) plug into that NAS to backup the really important sutff (pictures, office files, not media), and then unplug and put away safely. kids, floods, robbers, viruses... Will kill/take your NAS along with your other…

What really bothers me about Windows is the mess disk or directory aggregation is. On y 6-disk home server, I ended not aggregating anything, because Storage Spaces is a joke, joining and RAID are a pain when you want to add disks or, especially, upgrade from a smaller disk to a larger one...

Go with the OS you know. Any OS can be a competent file + media + cloud + backup + whatever server, what is important is your ability to install, configure and maintain it.

Better yet, if what they ordered looks yummy (or even it doesn't) eat some off their plates. I know, I'm *that* guy.

Indeed. Plus crepes aren't hard at all to make, just a bit of pain because they're time-intensive to cook. The one thing is to plan a bit ahead, the batter is much better if prepared a few hours to a day in advance (ditto for pie crust, a few days in the fridge will enhance it for some reason), and to avoid clumps by…

My brother rode a bike to work for 2-3 yrs, to avoid terrible congestion in Paris. His conclusion: never again. He almost died 3 times, because as soon as you're going above 20 km/h (15 mph ?) you just can't break. If anythign happens to the car in front of you, either you try to slide benath it, or risk a frontal…

Actually, the exit is the single most part of any contractual (or not so contractual) commitment.

From personal experience: try it out. I've been going big forever (4.3" HTC HD2 then 5.3" Galaxy Note 1, then 6" Ascend Mate, now 7" Huawei X1). I might have gone a tad overboard with the X1, but before that, every new phone was so much better than the previous small one !

Yep, that's what I was thinking about when I advocated Vinyl. I thought Vinyl was american for Linoleum., my bad. Lino is nice.

What strikes me is how important quality variations are for each of those floorings. Prices can vary tenfold within a given type of flooring, and there's a reason for that.

1-We're the One True Religion. Because.

I'm rather for kids: