For the most part I use Microsoft OneNote. I have separate folders for personal life, hobbies, software I've written and clients. With lots of sections and tabs. Works very, very well for me.

I don't have a degree or 2 year certificate or anything. And yet I've been doing software development for the past 30 years. I'll never work as an employee for large companies or governments but then I couldn't stand the culture anyhow. I learned to program at the local college while in high school on punched cards. Programming is a passion.

Please cite the numbers proving that shipping light bulbs from China costs more than the savings. Oh, and where do you think incandescent light bulbs come from? Oh yeah, China. Idiot.

Government and big business HR departments will require the often useless piece of paper. Small organizations are much less paperwork bound. Trouble is how do you find those? I'm not at all sure.

I'm truly puzzled as to how they think they can make any money given the infrastructure challenges. Pretty much everyone in rural Alberta has multiple wireless providers in range. And there's no interference to the amateur radio or emergency services radio systems as there is using BPL.

Incorrect. There are a hundred or more questions and answers regarding Microsoft Access daily in the newsgroups using NNTP protocol.

I completely agree that Google has been royally screwing up this search page. I also don't see how Google could foul up this search so badly. As you point out I just want to limit my search to microsoft.public.acccess* and it doesn't work. See http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/archive/2008/08/17/google-search-is-becoming-more-and-more-useless.aspx for my blog on this topic as well. And click on the Google complaints tag.