Get a chair in which you can sit straight upright comfortably. No springy back, no ergonomic curves that your body will never fit perfectly. Every degree of recline will take one painfree year off your career. Trust me! You want the weight of your head balanced over your spine, look straight forward, shoulders relaxed while typing/mousing. Your eyes should be aligned at 1/3 of the way down your monitor because we have more visual resolution in the lower half of our field of view. A professional keyboard/mouse/trackpad tray is best to get the right alignment. You want the keyboard almost in your lap so you can type without tensing your shoulders. I prefer one big monitor with multiple desktops and possibly a KVM if you need to work on machines that are required to have air-gaps. With 2 monitors, you are always looking to the side, which isn't good over the long-haul. Keep your active work directly in front of you with secondary things to the side. Also get a second seat of either a ball or knee stool for some variety. Set an alarm every hour to switch seats. Just getting up and moving the seats is good for you. When the second seat gets uncomfortable, switch back until the next alarm. Keep lighting off to the side instead of overhead where it causes reflections and makes you need to crank up the monitor brightness.

I hope that you're not counting on that fire safe to save you from an actual fire. They are made so that paper survives slightly crispy but still usable after a fire. The heat from the fire will surely melt some key parts of your portable drive. It's much safer to store off-site.

In many cases, it's there is only one physical line to a location, so having all users get their own service isn't an option. Cellular isn't a good alternative due to high costs and data caps. An ISP is a shared utility for everyone living under the same roof. Perhaps the answer is to pay extra for multiple static IP addresses so that all the roommate's usage is logged to his own IP address, but I don't know if that will save you in court.

I have a dozen installations that report "Firefox 5.0 is up to date" and another dozen that report "Firefox 5.0.1" is up to date, all at the same bloody time! The only way to get a 5.0 installation to report 5.0.1 is to download the latest full installer from Mozilla. So, do I really need to go update my 5.0 machines manually or are they somehow internally running all the 5.0.1 patches and still reporting 5.0? Maybe they are getting an old status page from my proxy server. I finally decided it was faster to to just reinstall than troubleshoot the mess. I get through that and already 6.0 is here. At least I still know that they are planning to screw me with a new version tomorrow. Given such a screwed up versioning/update system, they now want to drop version numbers entirely. WTF!

Another cool drive mechanism coming soon to your local robotics competition, alongside dozens of other ways I would never have dreamed to make a robot haul across the competition floor. You definitely won't be seeing on it a car because it's too inefficient, wears quickly and can't handle rough roads.

This says that companies can't stop employees from commenting using their own device on their own time. It doesn't require them to provide access to social media sites at work.

You're right, they haven't produced hydrogen yet. They make it sound like that step is a piece of cake: "These systems would consist of high surface area, light-collecting panes that use the proteins combined with a catalyst such as platinum to convert the sunlight into hydrogen". I doubt that it's that easy or they would have already done it. Nevertheless, it sounds like a promising area of study, which is of course the whole reason for the press release: Get more money!

Here's the more detailed press release. They're using proteins extracted from spinach and they plan to eventually produce them synthetically. The spinach doesn't directly produce the hydrogen.

It's only a problem if you do slash and burn. The point is that the life-cycle carbon impact of whatever framing techniques are used needs to substantially less than the carbon sequestered.

It takes lots of energy to manufacture paper and it is very polluting. The idea in the article is better.

It will work so long as we don't use modern farming techniques that contribute to CO2, such as fertilizer and diesel machinery. Can we really remember how to do that?

Have any of you ever heard of the Flying Car Publishing Company? This set of books is so amazingly brilliant that Flying Car doesn't even feel the need to publish any other books whatsoever!