yonajon: link doesn't load, although the link to [dappit.com] does. Any idea what's wrong? Be fun to try it. The link to finding PO dropboxes is useful, and it's about time, and, indeed, the future is late!

I needed a replacement frame, and had all the measurements and the exact model number, so fit wasn't an issue. If you have that, I'd say you'd have to be crazy to buy anywhere except online. I bought a pair of designer frames that would have cost well over $200 for $90 from an Italian outfit (giarre.com, if I…

I've used JAlbum for years, and really like it. Admittedly, it just shows photos, but I think it does that very well if you use some of the optional skins. (I've got ExhibitPlus. You can see an example here.) There are also lots of examples from users on the JAlbum site ). It does take some html and javascript…

Nice!

P. G. Wodehouse put it best: work is a nervous condition.

Everybody's already given all the sensible suggestions, including no snacking (NO SNACKING) and getting enough sleep. I haven't lost any weight, but I come from a naturally thin family and there has never been a whole lot to lose. I don't know how much it has to do with it, since there's obviously a genetic…

Lots of good suggestions here, so you probably don't need any more of that from me. Instead, I'll tell you how I wound up doing stuff, and how that worked out. [I have a couple of generations on you ... :-( ]

Man, the Lifehackers are an intimidating bunch. Seems to be nothing but marathoners and triathletes ... and me, and the guy who walks six blocks to work. Still, it's heaps of fun reading about it, and I really admire people with the stick-to-it-iveness to do something as difficult as a marathon. Good for all of…

I'm seconding: info about the best firewalls; about how to move from blogger to wordpress, and not lose formatting; online postage; organizing wires and cables (that'll be the day!); Linux-based NAS; and, well, too many good suggestions above!

What's with the "don't speed" advice? I've never driven on a freeway where all the cars aren't going close to over 10mph over the limit at least. People obeying the limit tend to stick out because cars accumulate behind them and everybody's going through maneuvers, getting around them. I've never seen a study on…

I ran into problems following their tutorial:

This is GREAT! Why didn't I think of that? The number of times I've been looking for some gizmo and had to plow through four or five screens' worth only to find nothing useful and give up.... It's most irritating when you're looking for, say, a pH meter or something equally obscure, and all you get is: "Buy pH…

A great tool!

I had a blue ballpoint stain on an expensive light blue shirt (pen left open when it was stuck in the shirt pocket, so it was really obvious). Sarah's ideas sound good, but I didn't think of any of them. I took a matchstick, wrapped a small bit of toilet paper around it, wetted the shirt, and then—very…

Yes. A thousand times yes.

What an awful suggestion.

Yeah, Hulk, smash. Except I see this briefly glowing red spot where there's nothing left to clean up after the phaser blast. Not very practical, unfortunately. What I need is a diplomacy superhero, but for some reason there aren't any out there.....

Boy, it must be something in the air. Just today, I posted a step-by-step on either trying Ubuntu from a live CD, or using that CD to install. There are links to the download site, Ubuntu help forums, wikis, as well as some caveats about where the likeliest problems are. No pictures, though. :-( Tephlon has a…

Gina, that's great! I've ignored feed readers so far—just stuck with Firefox's live bookmarks—because they either gave me too much info, or they gave it to me their way. But this is a useful tool. It's going to speed up my news checks by about an order of magnitude. Maybe now I can stop procrastinating and start…

The Japanese method will be forever beyond me. But that kid is going to go far!