@Red_Flag: I had a similar experience, except instead of "eureka" I said the solution to my problem. Unfortunately I was met with strange stares, as you would expect when one cries out "Of course, a series of inverted binary trees!"

I tucked my cords away by tying them back with a spare USB-to-microUSB cable. Plugged the USB end in and fastened the other end to my case, so I can still use it.

@Prairie Moon: It's really quite simple, just SSID the DNS responder of each PC to correspond to your encrypted PGP reverse-IP so you can send out messages using IPoAC. Simple, and effective ;)

@Shadow-Lurker: I've been using a boring simple one for a while, but fancied being able to have arbitrary numbers of tags. Should see if I can multithread it at all, could probably split on top-level tags at least.

WOOOOO! READY!

@headclone: No problem :)

@gmuslera: The way I look at it, it can't make you obsolete until it's learnt how you respond to things, and by that point it knows you pretty well, so hopefully you're good enough friends it can protect you when the robot revolution comes.

@SmarchHare: URLs over SSL are encrypted. They can see your DNS requests, but they don't include the non-domain part of the URL.

@headclone: Conky is supposed to be quite good for this sort of thing. I use Samurize, but found it's dynamic features somewhat clunky, so it's simply displaying text files that I keep up to date with a python script I wrote to schedule tasks (Tried to emulate cron - you could use that). Basically, if there's…

@y0urm0msname: Seeing as they're ad supported and have linked to ABP plenty, I'm willing to bet they would have.

@PixelProphet: All we need is a little text size picture we can add inline, it'll be perfect!

@aaronspuler: This is -not- to stop google from seeing your results, it's for your ISP.

@PixelProphet: I do so love that character.

@Anthony Hamilton-Thompson: I know, it just sounds... like it would be inefficient :P

Surely automatic printing would just waste paper?

@Shadow-Lurker: The image of that just made my day.

Ever since I asked my PC nicely to open the start menu, type "notepad.exe", and then run it, and it shut down, I haven't trusted speech recognition as far as I can throw it. Which isn't very far.

@Phoshi: [dl.dropbox.com] if anybody wants to take a peek. Monitors a folder called autoexec in the directory you run it from, but that's editable in the script.

Nifty. I've always done it with a python script that executes any files placed into a folder, but this works too.

@Sir (Starman), Leader of the Pineapple Platoon (and I don't even like pineapples): I think a lot of it is that most of face to face conversation includes body language, wheras in text we're stuck with smilies. I know I've said things that sounded jokey to me, and were taken the wrong way by the recipient.