Exactly. Some of us live in company-sponsored expat apartments where the hum-drum actions like paying utility bills is handled by others.

I'd just like to add my voice to the chorus here.
Google's whole raison d'être is search, and I often can't find anything of value anymore.
I'm not entirely certain what has happened, but it definitely sees as if something has gone wrong at the heart of Google. Instead of being an unstoppable force, I can now foresee a better search engine that can beat Google at its own game (and not from Microsoft or Yahoo! but rather from someone completely unexpected).

None of the options go far enough.

Doron Swade who wrote "The Difference Engine" (the non-fiction book, not the steampunk fiction by Gibson and Sterling) can tell you this:
It's not possible to create The Analytical Engine. Why? Because Babbage never stopped creating the designs. There is no one clean, complete set of designs for the Analytical Engine.

If someone were to build it, they would first have to pick and choose from among Babbage's numerous sketches, then fill in any of the missing bits. It's not a true, 100% authentic, Babbage design, unlike the simpler Difference Engine, which had a clean set of engineering drawings for its creation.

I always thought that learning the constellations was a waste of time. Now I have proof.

There was an even older, better, simpler version of Trade Wars that used a 1000-sector universe where everyone had the same type of ship (with the same number of holds) and there was one planet called The Wanderer.

Can anyone remember the version number? Is it available to play over the Internet today?
(If I had to guess, I'd say it was called Trade Wars 9.014 and came out long before Trade Wars 2002.)

On behalf of Europeans everywhere, let me be the first to say WOO HOO!

The Québécois already voted 60% in favour of separation in 1995, but they lost the overall referendum because of "money and the ethnic vote" as Parizeau explained. I know he was vilified for that comment, but he was merely stating the facts.

Surely I am not the only person living in the EU that sees Google Street Maps as a liberating technology. I have searched for countless things from my office and my home, and each time came away favourable with Street Maps. I think the EU is wrong on this one. What exactly are the dangers that they foresee with this technology?

Quite seriously, students aspiring to be doctors need cadavers to practice on. I'm already signed up with my local medical school, and I recommend you do the same.