Hey, the life of a fully funded Ph.D. student/researcher/teaching assistant is hard!!! Reminds me I should probably ask when I'm supposed to show up at the office :P

Bit difficult to have worked in more than one timezone, signed my contract 3.5 hours ago :P

Those I write down as well and add them to the document afterwards.

But that's multiple tools, and I just write the report of the meeting as we go generally. I find it difficult to do so when using different tools. Tried once in LaTeX and that sort of flies until they switch between subjects quickly. OpenOffice is semi-useless as a text editor, it just doesn't work as smooth as MS Word. MS OneNote isn't bad either though!

Actually, if you're meeting about the structure of something (a small part of a project, program, ...) it's foolish to not put it in a diagram. I'm not sure how your reports generally are, but mine are very short and I do have a tendency to visualize data as to make it easy to quickly go through it. I'd like to see you draw a process flow in plain HTML in the same time I do it in M$ Word ;)

Yeah, looks the same everywhere until you try to print it ;) And plain HTML is a large step for most people to start editing/writing, plus it has no support for diagrams, charts, ...

The problem is that people use Word for things it wasn't designed to do. Word is fine for typing short letters, summaries of a meeting, etc. In fact I don't think there's any better tool out there for that particular job. It's easy to use, quick, intuitive compared to the competition and you have a good editor for it on every platform that matters. For typesetting though you should use a typesetting system.

This poll means nothing unless you use 24 hour clock notation!

A victory for the British Empire!

Don't forget the good ol' serial terminal commands to overwrite the handshake established config!

No no no, that's what the internet is for.

The elevation display on most GPS units sucks badly though unless you give it a lot of time to average out its error. The main reason for this is that they design the units to track the roads so position on the surface is far more important than the actual elevation. Based on this the filters are modified to give the most accurate result possible in that respect, which might negatively affect the other measurements. Because raw GPS data won't help you much, ideally you get the coordinates from the GPS unit and use a database to determine the elevation. Keep in mind this only counts for cheap GPS modules such as you find in phones and low-end car systems.

Patent infringement on their patent on ad campaigns against patent trolls!

It wasn't a feature, it was a bug...

$35 is plenty to make a profit on these sort of small devices if they're well designed.