Economically it may be more efficient to donate money, but the personal effort and involvement goes a long way. And, you can do both. A local food pantry we assist has seen a 600% increase since late 2008. Besides time and personal donations bought at Wal-Mart or Target, the donations are used by the pantry to buy in bulk things such as masa harina, sugar and such, and then packaged for individual families. Tis the season to be giving....

They seem to help too (World Vision that is). In Haiti, besides UN and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) vehicles, World Vision is predominant, even in the Central Plateau. Doing the research on local, regional and global agencies goes a long way. Even if you focus on one particular area (Haiti, local homeless, your neighbors, etc.), giving a small portion to other groups is helpful.

Streaming not available via Tivo at this time. At least not on the Tive-HD.

I would like to place an order with you for 2.316667 units please.

Sorry CentOS, two months too late. I also moved some new servers over to Scientific Linux 6. Not that much difference and I can help support my old peeps at the Natioanl labs!

I think the media companies get it just fine. AT&T with U-Verse, Verizon's FiOS and Comcast with their On Demand service are doing the same thing, just locally on their network from their library of content. But since they don't have to open their private delivery network (it's IP), they can attack the other method that competition does use -- public IP from an ISP perspective. I'm still on the fence regarding net neutrality, but I don't see this coming out good for Netflix w/o some intervention.

If it's non-DRM epub, it can be converted to mobi (non-DRM).

Again, if the content I want is available via Amazon or via a semi-easy process to convert or upload, format is not an issue. Design and use of my preferred reading device is key -- the Kindle.

Unless you don't have a charger with you. More important when you read on a device that doesn't have e-ink. iPad ain't going to last long enough, even on a short trip.

The books I read are still in black text on white background.

I assume you mean LCD. I concur when you talk about regular lit environs such as a home or office. I mean we use LCD's day-in and day-out via our computers. Outside though in direct sun, nothing beats e-ink.

Get the new cover wit integrated light. Runs off the Kindle's battery and is one of the best designed solutions I've used so far.

7) Kindle is a unitasker. Why carry around a kindle and a notebook, when a notebook will do everything you need? Why have a kindle and an android tablet, or a kindle and an iPad?

Sometimes, a purpose-built device overcomes the unitasker shadow. My phone, iPad and laptop provide 20-80% of the experience I look for when reading a book. The K1 provided 80-90% of that experience, and the K3 is 99% of the way there. Heck, even Alton Brown has unitaskers in his kitchen when they provide a much better function than a general use tool.

For a book, it's not something I need. On the K3, the only time I wish I had touch capabilty is when navigating a page to look up a word.

I'm surprised you got an "interesting" score instead of "funny". Love the conformation to 12 of 11 attributes too . :)

My Canadian fiends rave at the quality of Tim Horton's coffee, but I don't get it. To me it tastes pretty much like the *old* McDonalds or QuikTrip coffee did. Now the doughnuts I did like.

Doe McAfee or any of the others detect these examples and malware?

Again, another fan of StartSSL. User of both server certs and client certs for personal and business use. Their cost model is much more inline with reality than Verisign or the others... Plus, EV certs if you need them.

Do it the other way around, that's what we've done for our employees. First they order Comcast cable only (any package) if they so desire. Some are on satellite and have opted not to do that. Then you order Comcast Business and tie it to your company but the service address is the employee's house. They are more than happy to do that and the few times we've called them to resolve issues that required a truck roll, the tech wasn't a contractor but an actual Comcast employee who knows the the business service. We have consistent quality and service on 12, 22, and 50 Mb connections. When comparing the lost time and IT staff required to resolve issues when we let home users use the residential services (Cable or HellSouth, err AT&T) to the increased cost of service, it continues to pay for itself.

Good thing about a credit union that services techies (the old DEC crowd). It's funny to see HP kit in the offices, I'd still love to see VT300-VT400's from days past. Now DFCU, 'splain to me again why you closed down the Alpharetta branch??!!! Personally, I use mint.com to manage historical transactions.

Stock up on that Kodachrome while you've got time Gerafix. There's 95% crap out there no matter what the method of photography is, same holds true with HDR. Trey Ratcliff shows how it can be done in an artistic manner.

Cook's Illustrated. Sorry, extrans and I didn't check the preview....