Debit vs credit card issue: I heard a couple of years ago (so maybe out of date now) that your liability in case of theft is quite limited on a credit card. Something like $50 (?). On a debit card, there's fine print that means you can lose all the money in that account.

Bitter? I'd say: serious.

Tough crowd. Personally, my excess plastic junk is in a mess under the sink, so I thought this was a good idea, as well as lots of the ideas in comments. I especially like the 3-different-sizes thing. The number of times I've had to scrabble through the whole mess, littering plastic bags everywhere, which then all…

KmyMoney is a visually more appealing (Linux) program. I used gnucash and just hated it because I'm the opposite of an accountant. Just couldn't get my head around all the extra time needed for double entry and all those "liability" "credit" "debit" "asset" categories. Don't know if KmyMoney is going to be more…

One day's notice. Sheesh. I *need* this service, but no way am I going to get the file cabinets mucked out in time to take advantage of it. F-e-r-r-r-r-rustrating!

From the other end of the spectrum here, I have the Classic Heap method of filing. The deeper layers can compress right down to fossil-bearing strata so that if I'm looking for something — a pen, or a stapler, for instance— I have to go find my headlamp and pickaxe and have at it.

@monkeyboy: (slightly simpler dashifen) "use global inbox" puts all your incoming mail, even from different email accounts, in one Inbox. That Inbox is found under "Local Folders" which is at the bottom of the list of all your email accounts.

I'm with the folks who have no TV but have cable for the boradband (which is the only highspeed service in my area). I'll never forget the surprisingly long discussion with the cable installer guy.

What I want is to learn how to write my own scripts, which is a problem, because I'm retarded at programming. Specifically, www.marketwatch.com sometimes inserts an ad page when you first access the site. I *know* I could deal with this using Greasemonkey, but I'm too dumb to figure out how.

The suggestions are all good, but .... They don't sound like much fun. Since part of reading fast is coordination of small eye movement muscles, I'd be willing to bet that if you don't pick up the habit young, it's increasingly difficult to acquire later. But other than that, I'd say the two most important things…

Ah, yes. The old snip-the-wires-to-the-speaker trick. Worked every time. Good times. Good times. (Not.)

This looks like one of my favorite features of quintura.com. That's a new(ish?) search engine which is generally like google on steroids. I've been very impressed with it, but I'm glad to see that tag cloud functionality added to good old google too!

Neat application! (Especially since I'm in CA ;-})

Sorry, but the absolute last word on medicating cats (and dogs) is at Random Acts of Reality. (Honestly. Go read. You'll still be laughing half an hour later.)

I don't know if a university environment counts as "creative." It should, I suppose. Faculty and other admin meetings are, in my experience, without exception, boring to the point of coma, useless, and nothing but a way for the totally unproductive members of the community to feel like they're doing something. …

People often compare self-installed Linux and apps with pre-loaded Windows. Small wonder Linux seems more difficult. (And small wonder Microsoft exerts all its muscle to make sure OEMs don't preload anything except Windows.) However, whining aside, the IBM docs are a great resource. I did have a chuckle at the…

I don't know how you Lifehacker folks do it, but you are actually making it possible for a world-class procrastinator (me) to get things done. I mean, there's no point telling me to gtd, but you're actually providing useful tools. This isn't the first time you've done that, but I had to mention it now because I've…

(Um, thrillhouse, your advice, though good in the world we'd like to live in, is not entirely practical. You need plastic to rent cars, order on the web, and so on. You're right that you can do all that with a debit card. The problem with debit cards is that you have many fewer protections in case of loss. Credit…

Oh, man. This takes me right back. I got dropped in at the deep end, using Linux to run a small network in my lab. CUPS was what I needed to make the printers available. But how to make CUPS itself available? (This was Redhat something or other, 6?) I looked everywhere. They had the equivalent of a start menu,…

Like cipheroid says. I have multiple time zone display on my Fedora Core 3, an "ancient" 2 year old operating system. I keep hearing about amazing Vista features that sound like nothing but Linux warmed over.