I just made a decision on what format I was happiest with, and the rest came from there. Having decided that ePub would be best for books and PDF for magazines/other stuff, I also chose to specify that both must be unencrypted and looked for a store that sold them in the UK and a device that would read both.

WHSmith sells ePub books, but they're encrypted: so I buy them there and decrypt them myself, and keep them backed up on my PC and online. I went with the Sony Reader PRS-350 as the reader, and have been pretty happy with it. When I eventually replace it, I'll probably just be looking for something else that can read unencrypted epub abd pdf files.

I picked up a printer/scanner combo with a document feeder, and I scan everything and (save for anything I think I might need for legal reasons) shred the originals.

I file the docs in folders by company name and with a YYYYMMDD-whatever image name or subfolder (for multiple pages). And I upload a backup to my server.

This has worked really well for me; paprework used to be a nightmare to find as I was so bad at filing it. Now I can find anything easily, and even email someone what they're asking for directly from my phone. It's awesome.

Quote from "Zodiac":

"They claim that this junk was going to become a habitat for marine life. You don't buy that?"
Bless her, she did know how to blow my lid. "Rebecca, goddamnit, since the beginning of time, every corporation that has ever thrown any of its shit into the ocean has claimed that it was going to become a habitat for marine life. It’s the goddamn ocean, Rebecca. That's where all the marine life is. Of course it's going to become a habitat for marine life."

Twitter is such a shit social tool I actually started unfollowing all my friends; it's still great for following news feeds, though.

Despite THREE engineer visit their 50Mbps product only works intermittently anyway. I plan to ask them to cancel my contract early, just as soon as I get a BT phoneline back in and I can get regular DSL. I won't miss the speed if I can have some actual goddamn reliability.

It doesn't help that they only offer non-geographic numbers for tech support, which mobile networks charge up to 50p/min to call, on a product which doesn't need the customer to own a landline. Maybe if I called them more from home they'd do better at troubleshooting my problem, but the calls would cost a lot more than the (shitty) service!

1. Evolution *is* memory. (Some of) what works and what doesn't gets wired in.

2. Have we really been transmitting information across generational boundaries using language all that much longer (in evolutionary terms) than we've been writing?

What's to stop them giving the codes and devices to someone who is going to class?

This system nicely straddles the horribly invasive and the pointlessly insecure, doesn't it?

Because people are capable of talking in code, or just being subtle.

Install jammers (probably with a whitelist of allowed phones) or STFU.

Much as I loved ME1, it did for me have one big flaw: completing the side-missions didn't fit with the story. The main storyline is a rollercoaster that should have you pelting at full speed to the next major plot world, and if you do buy into this you feel obliged to leave all the side-missions until you've completed the main campaign... at which point they're no longer available to you.

I mean sure, I replayed it, but it did strike a bum note the first time around.

... one at a time?

"All autonomous vehicles are fitted with extra gasoline tanks made out of cheap plastic for explosive awesomeness".

Sounds like a fairly generous timeframe.

I think Jail is overkill... so long as he pays up :)

Ready a company that offers IPv6 migration consultancy, and gather a bunch of contractors who are qualified to roll it out across large corporate or ISP networks, handle the DNS fixes, patch custom code, and/or upgrade ancient servers to an IPv6-ready OS.

IPv6 is not in demand, and will not BE in demand until there are new sites out there that don't have an IPv4 address because they can't get one, and thus are ONLY reachable from IPv6-enabled networks. When that does happen, demand will rise suddenly and rollouts will suddenly be worth the money. But most of the work will happen in a pretty short span of time - think Y2K panic - and that will be when you can cash in.

As a network engineer, I am waiting eagerly for this to happen. And anything that helps save IPv4 space from running out quite as quick is just delaying the inevitable. Give it all away! Announce there is no more coming! And finally you will bring on the long-awaited change.

Maybe we'll sort out multicast while we're at it :)