you forgot 30 goto 10

You bet, I do the same at home. Bought an old IBM Thinkpad R51 (8 or 9 yes old) on ebay for $80 about a year ago and run Linux as well. You can still get alot out of an old system. I am writing this on this old hunk of junk now. :-).

cheers

you redistribute 10 year old pc's? you cheap bastards!

Just as you line out your work objectives for the year/quarter whatever you should also have a line on expectations in regards to values and ethics. Make your staff accountable for their behaviour with clear consequences for acting against those values and ethics. Does not need to be complicated, it's life skills stuff.

Losing that Staples tech support is a real show stopper for me.

So like beer goggles without the beer? Google-Goggles

I suspect most people will think an @facebook email is the best thing since sliced bread.

Step 2: Narcissistic and psychopathic tendancies ..keep it rolling people, we can establish a framework here.

mod this shit up. this is the answer right here.

You are so lame AC. That is all.

You know, I have been thinking this as well but have never stated it as clearly as you just did. Some of the interface choices in gmail for instance just leave me flabbergasted. I just think to myself.. "funny engineers". I have noticed this with the google analytics interface as well. Lots of the design decisions they make seem convoluted to me although the technology is obviously pretty cool. And I agree on the +1 comment. I would expect their "dislike" button to be != +1 .

Everybody says this. So I install Chrome on Linux and seems ok. I have been running Firefox for years and have never noticed that it is a dog. It seems to work as well as I would expect it to on both my Linux and Windows laptops. Are we talking nanoseconds on page loads, or just the launching of the app? Is it when you have a million tabs open? Does it "dog" down when you install all those addons? (i only run Flashblock, ABP, and a proxy switcher) Maybe I just use my web browser differently then most people, but the speed of Firefox seems much ado about nothing. I have no political hangups about commercial browsers. I just haven't seen much in Chrome that would make me look down on FF.

If he already has a TV it would be easier to connect it to a slingbox. ipad has a slingbox app and he can even watch his regular tv HD on the ipad within his local lan. I am using sling at my place now and had originally bought it so i could watch my satellite tv over the internet, but 95% of the time I am using it locally in the house or on the porch outside. It has been a truly amazing and inexpensive little device.

I have a three year old son as well and there are many good age appropriate books to read at your library or local book store. I personally find comic books a little too mature for that age. But the important thing is to use your judgment and be ready to put things in context. Whatever comics you read will be better then parking him in front of the TV watching those same comicbook characters. Enjoy the reading, its a great passtime to share with your kid.

I have no problem decrypting Amazon books with http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/hello-world/ Use Calibre to then convert to whatever format you want. I have a Kobo and always buy my books. But Kobostore sometimes does not have the books I want so I buy them from Amazon and then strip and convert.