Wow, this is an incredibly evil distraction. But, like Gina mentioned, I could see how it'd be fun to use when receiving messages from a specific person.

I love these websites...but yes, mostly for for their comic appeal. What I've started doing is forwarding some of the articles I've written about email etiquette to clients and new-hires to help them to figure it out...especially since a lot of them have NOT gotten it in the past. I find this especially egregious…

Thanks for sharing this! Mac Office 2008's lack of VBA support is a dealbreaker for a lot of our projects now that so many businesses are using Macs with Office 2008. I just wish they could've done this sooner, especially seeing how on PC's they're really pushing .NET over VBA so once again the Macs will be behind…

I would venture to guess that most people online use a few "web 2.0" services, but most don't need aggregation technologies the same way geeks do.

One more vote for TextPad. I love the search and replace features and the flexibility, syntax highlighting, regexp support, file comparison functionality, etc.

AlertThingy is awesome—really making FriendFeed useful/usable. One kink so far that I've experienced is that if a new FriendFeed notification comes in while you're commenting you lose the comment.

I've been doing this for years—putting all my membership numbers in Outlook Notes and then sync'ing with my PDA phone.

Wow, I don't envy you for going through this experience.

This is an awesome little tip, thanks!

hahaha!

I think there's a tipping point at which it becomes cumbersome or just unnecessary to have additional space (the third or fourth monitor, or the second 40" display)...but it's not a point that most people will ever reach. Sort of like how most people would prefer having their own bedroom, a living room, a kitchen,…