I guess it's time to buy one of those white trash hands free beer helmets for the morning drive..

Put a meter on it, I bet you find it draws way less than the rated power.

People also tend to forget that waste energy isn't actually gone.

For example, If you have 10x 100 watt incandescent light bulbs in your home, turning them off will save you 1000 watts, right? Wrong. Your heating system will need to work a little bit more to make up the that "waste" heat from the incandescent bulbs. Of course in summer, this is reversed because you have waste heat AND your A/C is working to get rid of it.

I have a Sony PRS 505 and I think it's great. There is no Mac support, so I use a program called Calibre instead of the included software. The next model up (PRS 700) has more features like a light and touchscreen, but the light looks cheap and the touchscreen is not quite as nice to look at.

Apparently the Sony also runs linux.

So what you are saying is that licensing is not that complicated if you have a bunch of cash to throw around?

The best thieves make sure you never realize they were there..

The clock on the oven kinda reminds me of the estimated-time-remaining clock on a windows file copy dialog.

xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/612/

I'm not really a Windows guy, but I seem to remember server 2003 having a Distributed File System (DFS) that might work for this. I think 2k3R2 has an improved version that will only sync the changes to the files as well.

I had a data plan for a wireless broadband card and it also had an extra $10 for a corporate plan. The extra $10 was for a static IP. Another provider had a different price for their corporate package as well. This time, for the extra $10 you would be able to use your device with a blackberry enterprise server.

Palm pre was released a few days ago, iphone os 3.0 will be released in a few days (or now if you want to use the development version). I'm not sure I'd really call that "falling behind"

Best:

First thing in the morning, before anybody else is in the office.

Most useful (but likely lowest quality):
During a minor emergency.

I wrote a little script to remake an important file we lost. It was horribly written, but it saved us a lot of time re-typing the file by hand. (Yes, it should have been backed up.)

I find writing something rarely happens all at once. A little distraction keeps me from focusing too much on one way of solving a problem, but silence can be really nice sometimes too.