Cool hack—as long as you don't mind sending everything you type to Google for permanent archiving.

Another note:

no_slushbox wrote:

Bend ... Carrick bend is a newer and more secure bend useful for joining slipperly synthetic ropes, but I can never remember how to tie it.

Heh, regardless of what Skeptic said, the article someone actually relinked that accompanied the gallery states the following about the square knot: Use this one to lash two objects together with one line, or to join two separate ropes.

BTW, echoing others here, who the heck ever uses a sheepshank? They spill way too easily but for some reason basic knot compilations always include this very specialized and rather rarely used knot.

3) Square knot is good for joining two ropes quickly and easily

Raid 0s are pretty easy to "break." I suppose there is some history on the term RAID "0," but it is rather funny that stands for "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks" since a RAID 0 has no redundancy, but rather the opposite. In a RAID 0 if either of the disks fails you lose all the data on both drives. Seems like a…

Are you kidding?

"As a hotel manager, I would suggest you never ask for the business discount or corporate rate. Why? Business and corporate travelers are usually on an expense account and they typically do not care about the rate."

I had much the same experience as robdew.

Both of these solutions are overkill for many people.

"NRA membership stickers in strategic places."

"double dead bolts locks (that need a key to be unlocked from the inside) provide the best security"

"Hasn't this been around for a while? The last I saw it, you couldn't add new apps to it, just the Mac standards (like Safari.) Looks like maybe they updated?"

If your interest is in being "green," remember that a good deal of energy was used to make that "Kill-a-Watt" measuring device...This may be true but you don't have to buy a new Kill-a-watt, nor do you have to keep it once you've surveyed your usage. I suspect that the Kill-a-watt is an energy saver in the aggregate.

The FA mentions the ubiquitous Kill-a-Watt and the PowerAngel. They appear to be the same device in different cases. They both appear to be True RMS meters—which is important when measuring the power consumption of computers.

"No chef is going to be able to guarantee peanut free (for instance) unless the WHOLE restaurant is set up to be that way from DAY ONE"

"Her sample slides has way too much text, her font was too small, and the slides were too cluttered. Its a classic example of why Powerpoint sucks..."

The MS page has some ok suggestions but I must second the key points from the above posts: Keep it short, keep it simple.