Didn't know that. Thanks for the tip!
You can also use custom keywords with Bookmarks:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Usin...
I alias google to "g", so when I want to search, i just type in the location bar: "g these are my search terms".
It's also practical to do Google searches in specific languages. For example, I use "ge" for google-english, "gf" for google-french, etc.
Yeah, those long forgotten chat-silo days when you needed an ICQ account, an AIM account, a MSN account, a Yahoo account to reach all your friends... fortunately XMPP/Jabber would solve all of this, and even Google would embrace the open standard with their new GTalk.
Oh! wait... it was a bait and switch.
Don't be evil does not mean be good.
Using anything like puppet or chef under version control to do all server ops will not only leave you with a full timestamped documentation, but will allow you to easily horizontally scale servers, rebuild them should disaster strike and protect you from stupid upstream package updates that b0rk your config files.
Have a staging and production environment? pushing your chef/puppet scripts to production after they're proven to work insures you have the same changes applied on both sides, and avoid manual operations on production.
Just a random though: has anyone checked how long, and over what distance, the plane could fly from its cruise altitude once its engines stop ? If, in such a situation, the pilots tried something similar to what has been done with flight 1549 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549), it might be an interesting approach to try to approximate a circular search zone (rather than an area).
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen