I am doing exactly as you've described, with T-Mobile, prepaid. I'm hardly an expert, but recently got interested in a Blackberry with a better camera than my old throwback phone. When I discovered the BB model had wifi, and that it would work without a data plan, I was sold, and headed to ebay for a second-hand purchase.

...Panasonic forum. There are probably dozens of threads like these, among the other DPR forums. These get into Micro 4/3 vs superzooms, in particular. There are good arguments for both sides of the debate.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1033&message=40183848

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1033&message=40183973

I belong to a club that uses Yahoo Groups for organizing. The members like that it functions as a mailing list. And, one feature we haven't been able to find elsewhere, is that events on the calendar can be set up to do periodic auto-notifications via email. We do see weaknesses in Yahoo Groups, and would appreciate suggestions.

I just got my first netbook. What's your setup for running Doom?

The Linux, Virtualbox, XP setup also works for streaming Netflix.

That stuff is barely worth keeping at all; not worth putting in a file cabinet; and certainly not worth the trouble of digitizing. Put it in a box or drawer chronologically, not even sub-divided by type. (Ok, keep you mortgage and insurance papers filed in a cabinet.) In the rare instance where you need to refer to a credit card bill, you'll find it easily enough. After 5 or 6 years, start purging and shredding the oldest stuff.

No need to over-complicate your life.

Maybe you should take a(nother) look at Opera. It has a nice compression service option. It's proxy based, compresses and marginally degrades images, and is otherwise transparent to the user.

And, for Firefox, install an extension like Hide Menubar, so that the menu only appears when you press Alt. With my URL bar moved to the menubar, the only non-content at the top is my tab bar.

HSX is much older than Intrade. I think I read where Intrade gave props to HSX when it started.

The posted story is misleading. HSX is the fake money exchange, and will remain so. The Cantor Exchange is where the real money will be.