Audible has definitely made my commute a lot more productive, and a lot less boring. Been making a real dent in my to-read stack courtesy of my 45-minute commute.

What can I say? Al's a funny-looking guy.

I don't know. This _is_ the CIA we're talking about.

Depends on the language. Knowing French helped me a great deal while I was learning English. Knowing French, English, and Russian didn't help me one whit while learning Japanese, except maybe with gairaigo. Knowing Japanese, though, would make for a pretty decent beachhead into Chinese, if I ever decided to take that leap, or at least the dialects that still use the traditional character sets.

Not as mind numbing as your misspelling of "your".

The failure was between the seat and the brake pedal.

The real solution is getting the government out of the business of granting monopoly privileges over math.

SSDs are clearly the storage technology of the future, no doubt about that. My 80GB X25-M is the best $300 I spent on on my computer.

Right now, though, while they are still an order of magnitude more expensive per terabyte than traditional enterprise drives, addressing vibration sounds like an ingenious and cost-effective way for companies to squeeze out more performance out of available technology.

Funny, insightful, _and_ informative. Mod this man up!

Considering that deflation has been one of the biggest threats to our economy ever since Lehman went belly-up, inflating our way out of debt looks like a win-win to me. The trick is getting them to stop at a healthy inflation rate of 2% per year once things stabilize.