This is great news. I love Chrome—it's fast, it's slim, and the interface is just what I want. It's my primary browser at home. However, a handful of really helpful extentions have kept me using Firefox part-time—with XMarks heading the list. This puts me firmly on the path of switching to Chrome full-time.

Very cool. I've done this before using craigslist, my local paper, and Batch Geocoder, then planning a route by hand, but that was a relatively inefficient process. This will surely come in handy.

@The Curse of Millhaven: I completely agree. If I weren't out in the garden, I wouldn't be working more hours. If anything, I should assign a positive value to working in the garden, as I find it relaxing and enjoyable.

Well, this is one way to quantify what you're getting out of the garden, but it's a little simplistic. It might be more accurate to compare the alternative purchase price of what you grew (the chart presented here) to what you would have purchased if you didn't have a garden. I'm confident that most people wouldn't…

For anyone who has a relatively limited space in which to garden, I'd recommend four considerations:

@Δεν βρέθηκαν λέξεις: You'll have a hard time finding anything like this. It depends on too many variables: where you live (and therefore what you can grow), what you want to eat, how willing you are to eat the same thing over and over, plus any number of dietary limitations.

@pdok: I also find it handy to keep a list of all the paint colors (mix info) used in the house. Then I don't have to rely on a paint can, just in case.

@UnderLoK: I couldn't disagree more. A brief pause—perhaps a short nap and a little time for reflection and pondering—in the midst of life's innumerable demands can reinvigorate and renew both body and mind. Like anything, sleep can be taken to excess, but exercised in moderation, it can help us be our best.

@JLobo: I spent a couple of years in Latin America, and I love the siesta. However, I think it makes the most sense in areas where the early afternoon is too hot to go outside. For most of the US, in most of the year, that isn't the case. I also think it's more practical in places where people can reasonably go…

@TheFu: Really? I found operations management to be a fascinating subject. Give me some process optimization problems any time!

This is good advice, as long as you're able to pretty quickly a) determine your most desired outcome, and b) determine an action that will lead toward that outcome. One big problem is competing desired outcomes.

I've been using homemade paper wallets for at a year or two now, and with the addition of a little UHMW polyethylene tape, they last for many months. This allows me the opportunity to be crafty once in a while, change my wallet whenever I feel like it, and not spend money on an object whose practical value can be…

Data lock-in is the only one of these that causes me any concern. In general, Google's security measures seem appropriate, as do those of most reputable sites that I frequent. OK, they might not be hack-proof, but I understand that risk. As for data unavailability, I make sure to have local copies of…

I've never had any desire to jailbreak my phone until now. I'll wait for a couple of weeks until the emotional response to this issue subsides and Apple decides whether or not they want to change course—but if I still feel the same way then, it will be time to make some changes.

@DiscoZombie: I have family that lives on the Big Island, and when we are visiting them, we've found that while local insights form the backbone of what we do, a very good guide book (The Big Island Revealed) has also given us some great advice. My favorite way to spend a Saturday morning there is hitting the farmers…

@caseykoon: You can also use Alt+drag in Word. I've found this very useful for selecting "columns" of information when the document contains tab-separated or space-separated tabular data.

A good guide book can really give you a leg up. I once took a trip to the Yucatan and was hoping to be able to find a long-abandoned hacienda that I had seen in passing in a movie. Sure enough, a good guide book told us how to get there—go through an orange grove, ask someone working there how to get to the…

I used Thunderbird from version 0.2 on for several POP3 accounts, although that adoption coincided pretty closely with getting my first Gmail account. After a few years of using both, I finally moved to using Gmail exclusively. At least at that time, Gmail's spam filter was much better than Thunderbird's and even…

@celerity66: For anyone who can't work additional hours to get more money, looking at it this way might underestimate the actual time required to "earn" a non-essential item. For example, suppose that Richard works 40 hours in a week period and is paid $1000, or $25 per hour. After taxes and essential expenses…

In terms of doing research ahead of time, it might make sense to determine the desired outcome of the research before starting. For example: