As an agnostic I pick and choose. No need to believe in god or the bible to understand that most religions have a pretty well-thought moral framework that is easily communicable. It would take me a long time to formulate that thought in words as digestable as Mark X:X-X.

I can't stand all these browsy, graphical rss readers, and press ( paid ) has a great interface for *reading* news. They have promised a new backend before the demise of reader... don't know if there is a ios client.

I must disagree! Me and my wife runs a shop in Manhattan where we also sell over the internet. We have gone through FedEx, UPS and DHL over the years and with all of them there was always problems: Packages got lost, damaged or got returned quite regularly. And every other months it seemed their invoices were padded - having us spend hours with the representatives to get them to correct their mistakes. We still use DHL for imports, and this past spring my poor wife has spent countless hours being bounced by our sales agent and their billing department to rectify two wrong bills (it was $50 off, but it's really the principle) - every time we talked to the sales agent, he promised the problem was fixed - even when in conference call with DHL's accounting. Still, their invoice got sent to collection in three separate instances - the same invoice! The last time, they even sent fresh invoices within their due dates to collection! DHL also have a buggy web api for shipping. Calculations in their api differed quite a bit from their browser web interface - some %'s or so more expensive for packages where dimensional weight was applied when booked through the api rather than their website. Even when I was put in contact with their developer group and was able to pinpoint the problem and even came up with the likely wrong calculation they were doing, they refused to rectify it. The reason they gave me: not breaking existing behavior.... It's a shit company. We reluctantly started using USPS a year ago, and I must say everything has went smooth since. One lost package in a year. Friendly staff picking up. Very predictable bills since it's all prepaid. Tracking within U.S. has always worked great for us. Sure, USPS has it's shortcomings, but using them for our outgoing packages was one of the best moves our little shop has done...

Right, some Anderson Consulting (as they at one point were named) once shmoozed his behind on the corner of my desk for a few minutes and of course my fave pen was nowhere to be seen afterwards. Long fingers, I'd say. I'll give him a kickback any day. To Mister Consultant Anderson: A real kickback, you Penron!