I've been happy with Transparency. But I also pretty much started with Transparency so any quirks I probably don't even notice. While some of the other skins are prettier, Transparency is the best when it comes to list views, which are what I use most often.

So the author feels bad about being a hypocrite when it comes to spending too much time in front of a screen so he lets his kid do the same. That's not the solution its just being too ingrained in your lazy asshole behavior to keep your kid from becoming a lazy asshole as well.

All of them. WMC for watching TV, XBMC for local media, Plex as a local media server for tablets and phones.

I found Embassytown to be average. There were some very good ideas there but also a great deal of clumsiness in actually getting them expressed. It definitely had the feel of a first foray into a new genre and while I didn't get overly frustrated with the missteps, I had a hard time getting fully into the novel…

Usually not, but if the price goes up before the launch then you aren't charged the difference. Its mainly just a way to queue up books that you know you will buy anyway and get them as soon as they come out.

Contact FB tech support to reset any current authorizations you may have with the various sites that use FB authentication. I don't know if a change in password will automatically reset them but its better to assume the worst and that whoever logged in used your ID elsewhere and may still be able to keep using it.

Normally, Sony is never in consideration but I ended up picking up a laptop from them recently when I was looking for a work laptop. The 13' Vaio SA series is actually pretty nice and not overpriced like most of their stuff. It does have a bit of Sony bloat but its way better than in the past. It does very well with…

In this case there was also the huge discrepancy in marketing between the Lorax and JC. When your five year old is telling you in the car that Friday is her lucky day because that's the day the Lorax movie comes out in theaters, there is no way you are going to avoid taking her to see the movie that weekend.

Abjection makes me think of Ray Bradbury's "Skeleton". Such a great story and perfect to describe the concept of abjection.

This isn't how MS works. Windows 7 didn't take all the Vista-y features and go further, they pruned them back to make them corporate acceptable. Windows 9 will do the same to Win 8. It will be more stable, more safe and will have a MAK friendly interface readymade for the business world even if it means more…

There were working versions of ICS for the Xoom within weeks of 4.0's release, including for the Verizon version. The only reason there is an official version out now is due to Google backing it but the unofficial versions have consistently been better since the start. The devs fix bugs in the kernel that Moto leaves…

Use of Weapons crosses the unsympathetic line pretty definitively as well.

If you're still on the second book its a little early to be making that comparison. There's quite a death toll in Erikson's books, although the larger than life part is very much true as well.

Steven Erikson's Malazan series might be to your liking. Its a combination of the gritty and epic fantasy genres and has the benefit that the main ten book series is finished.

Style over substance. The changes in H-K's lineup for receivers shows them going for flashy appearance but cheaping out on features. They seem to be going for a Bose/B&O niche instead of trying to win sales by offering products that are actually good. Shame.

My five year old daughter loves her girly toys and when I showed her the new LEGO sets she of course wanted to get them too. She also wanted and got the Alien Invasion LEGO set for Christmas and loves playing space battles.

I gave my four year old a Nook Color running CM7 instead. Its a way better deal once you factor in the cost of the Leapfrog software and in terms of what they both offer it isn't even a contest.

VOTE: HTC Flyer

My music library has grown with me for over 20 years. It's very much a part of me, whether in physical form, located on a local drive or stored in the cloud. There's many many songs in my library love that I will never find on any subscription services. Instead I use Subsonic as my personal cloud and Last.fm as my…

This is pretty much the only reason I use itunes. Since itunes doesn't keep my music library in the itunes folder its going to make the process of adding the downloaded files back more cumbersome than I'd like, but keeping that extra degree of separation is worth it to me. I'm still not really looking forward to the…