I've got a reasonably large TBR pile going on right now, but that's never stopped me from wanting to add to it. What have you read this year that you think I absolutely need to add to that stack? Fiction, nonfiction, whatever. To get some sort of idea of what I've been reading, you can run through my LibraryThing profile. I admit it's been heavy ( Read more... )

So, I'm almost done mainlining Kage Baker's "The Company" series and will need something else shortly. I do have a bunch of stuff sitting around waiting to be read, but right about now I feel like a teenager looking at the full refrigerator ("There's nothing to eat!") or like a late-night viewer flipping through cable channels ("There's nothing on ( Read more... )

I need to switch Quickbooks Pro 2006 to mail invoices via Outlook rather than through the Intuit mail service since they're cutting off access to that service for 2006 customers at the end of the month, and I'm failing utterly at figuring out how to do it.  Anyone happen to have any useful pointers?  The "check the Outlook box in Preferences->Send ( Read more... )

Question for folks with more Outlook experience than me: (To illustrate said experience, I had to hunt down a disk and install Outlook on my system specifically to test this; I don't use it at all ( Read more... )

I'm feeling like I need to own this William Shakespeare Complete Works. (This stunning new edition, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, combines the very latest textual scholarship with illuminating insights into how Shakespeare's plays were and are performed. With notes on each page, photographs and thought-provoking essays, this is a ( Read more... )

The HOA is planning on towing my old Protege on Sunday unless it's inspected and the tags are renewed by then; seeing as how the car doesn't actually start at the moment, I don't think that's going to happen. Sadly, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the best approach is either to donate it or scrap it because the cost of a storage unit ( Read more... )

Have any of y'all used gift certificates from Restaurant.com? Are there any gotchas to be aware of, other than the (in some cases relatively high) minimum purchases?

I'm planning to go snag tickets for tomorrow night's performance of Hamlet, and the only realistic option given transportation issues is to get them at the Shakespeare Theatre box office starting at noon. Have any of y'all done the weekend ticket thing there? Any idea what time I'd need to be in line in the morning to be sure of getting tickets? ( Read more... )

Would any of y'all be willing to help out a friend of mine who is SERIOUSLY jonesin' for the new Whitlams album that's being given away with various newspapers starting June 1? If you'd be willing to pick up a copy for her, drop a comment over on her post. Thanks ( Read more... )

When using the Intel Matrix Storage Console (7.8, if it matters) on XP and trying to get a RAID 1 configuration set up using an existing drive (which I most emphatically do NOT want to wipe), does anyone know how to get it to tell me something just a bit more more useful than simply "Volume creation failed"? You know, like maybe WHY or HOW it ( Read more... )