Yes. Don't cut your balls in half, just use the slit in the front. That makes it easy to give it a good, hard screw into the wall by inserting tool into its mouth.

My #1 recommendation is to find a good independent shop for servicing. Look for one that specializes in no more than a few makes because those are the guys that have expert experience and the correct diagnostic tools (and know how to use them).

In your situation I would recommend taking it to the dealer for the simple reason that it's new and you really want it hooked up to the correct electronic diagnostic tools to see if it's throwing any trouble codes.

You're right on the oil change interval. A lot of Americans seem to have "every 3,000 miles" drilled into them, but it's just not so with modern engines and synthetic oil. Sometimes manufacturers and dealers pander to the idea that you need to change it much more frequently than necessary (more dealer profit). Often…

Tis the season when you'll be asked to fix other people's computers :-) If you really get stuck and are blocked from downloading Windows Security Essentials on an infected PC, you (or someone else) can download it onto an uninfected computer (even a Mac) and send it as an e-mail attachment to the offending PC. Works…

I'm a big Mac fan, but you have to be fair here... every time I've "fixed" a Windows computer it's been the owners fault for doing something stupid that the OS didn't prevent.

Be careful 'cos it's not all unicorns and rainbows.

stronzo!

This is good advice. To expand on it a bit, I find the professional chef's concept of "Mise en place" (roughly translated to 'everything in it's place BEFOREHAND') to be incredibly helpful.

Having worked in software my whole life, I'll tell you that - in all honesty - incremental improvements hold a lot of innovation back. Sometimes you have to make a bit of a disruptive leap.

Give Metro a chance.

Lots of really great advice in these comments. Here's my 2 cents...

Wow. Just tried it and that PDF signing feature is awesome. This will save me so much time. Thanks for the tip :-)

I'd go for it. I upgraded 3 Macs at the weekend - the oldest being an iMac from early 2006. All the upgrades went flawlessly (although on the older Macs the screen went black for almost half an hour during the install - so don't be freaked out if this happens, just wait it out). Lion has breathed new life into them -…

From deep personal experience... if cost is no object, then an Apple Airport Extreme is what you want regardless of whether you have an Apple computer in the house or not. At the budget end, Linksys is what you want to go with.

I'm a big fan of corrugated flexible plastic tubing with a slit down the back. It lets you fit a whole bunch of cables inside it. Then you only have one pretty cool looking tube snaking up to the TV. IKEA sells it in gray and you can sometimes get it at home improvement stores as well (usually in black).

My entire family - who don't complain much about anything - hate the new interface. It makes doing the things that Skype used to be great for so much more difficult. Not being able to have it compact and sitting on the side of the screen makes it a pain to do simple things like call someone when you're looking at a…

@Java-Princess: I agree. Maybe Facebook, Google, or some coalition of big internet companies should gain a PR advantage by establishing a permanent free ISP service that kicks in when a country tries to take its citizens off-line. It's very existence would dissuade countries from taking that kind of action against its…

@FrankenPC: Stop hating. My IKEA bookcase system (Niklas) is now 20 years old and has been from Glasgow, to London to L.A to Florida. I still use the items I didn't drop from my kitchen starter-box from the same period. And there's other stuff that has been almost as intensively used for as long a period. I have tons…

Sounds obvious, but remember to turn the cards over and also scan the backs (which is usually where the 1-800 #s for customer service are).