My phones, watch, mp3 player, wall clocks and bedside alarm clock all keep near perfect time (+-1 minute a month) with little or no brain. Computers, with their comparatively limitless power seem unable to maintain anything even vaguely resembling accurate time without connecting to an atomic clock on a daily basis (It's not uncommon for my desktop PC to lose 10 minutes when left switched on overnight). Why are computers so bad at keeping time, and why does no-one improve them?
posted on Aug 6, 2008 - 17 answers

OS X Backup Filter. I use a mac mini with it's limited had disc space, so also use an external USB drive to store big stuff like my iTunes Library, Lightroom Catalog, and Downloads. I need automatic backup help. [more inside]
posted on Aug 5, 2008 - 8 answers

How can I display the exact system time on my Blackberry? [more inside]
posted on Aug 4, 2008 - 3 answers

Help me find a way to earn some money through blogging. [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 13 answers

I work at a call center, and have very short breaks in between calls, but it's frequent enough to get a little boring. What kind of productive ideas do you all have for something I could do? [more inside]
posted on Jul 17, 2008 - 29 answers

I'd like to broaden my horizons by getting a better understanding of life in different cultures and time periods. Please recommend great books or films (fiction or non-fiction) which paint a broad, immersive, reasonably accurate picture of a place and time. [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2008 - 29 answers

People Management: How to make time for people? Family-members, friends and others. [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2008 - 22 answers

I need a craft that has tangible results! [more inside]
posted on Jun 30, 2008 - 44 answers

Priority Mail or Express Mail? This Saturday I'll mail a flat envelope from NYC to a P.O. box in Bethesda, MD (20824); I want it to arrive by this Tuesday. Do I need to spring for Express Mail? Anecdotes welcome.
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - 9 answers

Does anyone have helpful software suggestions to help me track my time and notes during the course of a work day? [more inside]
posted on Jun 9, 2008 - 6 answers

Does Ricky Gervais have an opening act when he does his stand-up sets? [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2008 - 4 answers

I need Wordpress to display the_time as well as the_time - X. [more inside]
posted on May 24, 2008 - 8 answers

How can I prove to my supervisor that I'm arriving and leaving to and from work at my scheduled times? [more inside]
posted on May 14, 2008 - 39 answers

Asking for future-MIL: She works a part-time (25-30hrs/wk) job in Florida, diagnosed with breast cancer, had to undergo surgery and needed time off work, but she was under the impression that she had short term disability, had mastectomy and must be off work for six weeks, tries to file for short term disability and come to find out, no short term disability. What can she do? [more inside]
posted on May 13, 2008 - 8 answers

What Would You Do With 120 Days? [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2008 - 20 answers

At what age do kids usually learn about time? [more inside]
posted on May 7, 2008 - 20 answers

I offered a client a preferred rate for a block of hours and they agreed, so I sent an invoice. Things went great and now they want more, how do I arrange this on paper? [more inside]
posted on May 6, 2008 - 3 answers

Please help me design a bar exam study schedule for a working person. [more inside]
posted on Apr 10, 2008 - 5 answers

How long does it usually take to adjust to a new place? I moved away from my girlfriend and friends by 3 hours. I know few people (those I met at a church and in workplace)...I am having a rough time of it as i am new in town, new and stressed at job, and just new at about everything it seems. The good news is that my girlfriend and I are getting married but it will be 8 months. SO, how long on average does it take a person to adjust to new changes such as job and city? I appreciate your feedback. My anxiety is much higher than it needs to be.
posted on Apr 2, 2008 - 16 answers

Let's say that I'm a college student that would like to expand my general knowledge about what's going on in the world, and let's say that I'd like to start subscribing to a weekly news magazine, and let's say that I generally have no knowledge of the differences between news magazines. Which one should I subscribe to, and why? [more inside]
posted on Mar 31, 2008 - 69 answers

sleepfilter: How do I 'reset' my body clock? I'm generally a good sleeper, but I find periodically (and lately), I wake up at the exact same (and weird) time every day. [more inside]
posted on Mar 26, 2008 - 13 answers

What techniques can I use to make myself less available to others? [more inside]
posted on Mar 19, 2008 - 13 answers

What Part/Full-Time Jobs Allow Lots of Reading Time? So far I could come up with: lifeguard, parking lot attendant, pet/house sitter, night-time babysitter, and security guard. What are some others? Pay is not important. I will be working another job for the $ and get my study/ready done during this one.
posted on Mar 15, 2008 - 41 answers

Neither of my Windows machines have adjusted for daily light savings time. [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 8 answers

My wife and I want to work from home. Know any good companies? [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2008 - 28 answers

I'm interested in aspects of benchmarking with the help of UNIX's time, specifically, what user, system and elapsed times correspond to, within the functional context of the system and the tested application. [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - 4 answers

What are some good books on calendars, chronology and the division and measurement of time? I'm interested in the history, physics and especially mathematics of it all. A giant encyclopedic reference tome would be excellent. Thanks!
posted on Mar 2, 2008 - 10 answers

In the space of a busy life, full-time work, girlfriend, and misc other interests, how does one pave the way for larger projects? [more inside]
posted on Feb 26, 2008 - 31 answers

What stuff should I bring with me on tour? [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2008 - 30 answers

How do you keep track of multiple projects at the same time, and get good work done on all of them? [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2008 - 9 answers

How should I spend my final two months of freedom? [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2008 - 9 answers

How much time do you actually have as a graduate student, PT grad student? [more inside]
posted on Feb 8, 2008 - 17 answers

How is the meaning of art and artefacts being altered by the methods we use to: Experience, Define and Preserve them... In other words, in what ways have technologies been used to experience, re-define and/or preserve art and artifacts? [more inside]
posted on Feb 5, 2008 - 12 answers

How do I copy a large number of files in Windows XP without changing the date created/modified? [more inside]
posted on Feb 2, 2008 - 6 answers

How do I convert RSS feed timestamps to relative timestamps or "time ago", for example: "12 minutes ago?" [more inside]
posted on Feb 1, 2008 - 8 answers

My wife and I are trying to get back into shape, and maybe loose some weight. I've tried out my google-foo, and can find some places here in RI, but I don't think my wife would feel comfortable walking into Golds gym. Help! [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - 12 answers

What is it called when you can't imagine the past or the future? [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 9 answers

I am interested in the mimetic and narrative capacities of artefacts, how cultural remnants transmit information through time and how meaning is translated once an artefact is re-appropriated or examined from a new perspective. I have several avenues of study at the moment (a list in extended explanation), but would like some more ideas. Areas of critical theory, linguistics, evolutionary psychology and poetics are all relevant. [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 12 answers

Recent college grad now living in the real world: what are your favorite techniques, tricks, or products to get the everyday things done?` [more inside]
posted on Jan 26, 2008 - 27 answers

In the movie Paprika by Satoshi Kon one of the tropes was a website that would show specific content at a specific time. While I'm sure this is possible, is it easily implementable? Better yet, is there an downloadable script or somesuch that I can use on my website? Can a page be time-locked?
posted on Jan 23, 2008 - 15 answers

I have an abundance of time this holiday week, and I finally got around to watching that Japanese t-shirt folding tutorial video and learning how to do it. I wonder, what other quick, easy, and cool time-saving tricks can I learn this week?
posted on Dec 22, 2007 - 11 answers

Is this picture from Time magazine photoshopped? To my eyes, that laser beam is just wrong. [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2007 - 26 answers

If I'm looking at existing statistical data, how do I try to find a correlation between two variables over time? Scatterplots have confused me, because they don't seem to reflect the passage of time, but just where x and y meet. Pearson's r doesn't seem to do it either w/r/t time. [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2007 - 13 answers

Lost Song Filter: I swear I remember hearing a song called Time Bomb in late 70s early 80s. [more inside]
posted on Dec 10, 2007 - 5 answers

I'm in the (UK) market for a MiniDV camcorder. Ideally I want one with an interval rec feature so I can use it for making time lapse films. Does anyone know of a low-ish budget model that has this please?
posted on Dec 6, 2007 - 2 answers

I'm trying to find an online version of the illustration from the Best Inventions of 2007 issue of Time Magazine. The illustration depicts a man on a bicycle covered overwhelmingly in gadgets next to a young woman holding an iPhone.
posted on Nov 29, 2007 - 4 answers

I'm trying to get a M.S. in Computer Science, I already have a B.S. in Computer Science. Started last year as a full time student, took a semester off, and now trying to take classes while holding a full time job. My horrible time management skills combined with not knowing how crazy my job gets in August has caused me to do poorly in class. So poorly, that I may be "ineligible to continue graduate study". I'm very de-motivated by the whole situation and wondering what my options are, so I have a couple of questions [more inside]
posted on Nov 28, 2007 - 11 answers

I want to say I played this game around age 12 or 13, so that would be right around 1990 or so. It was a computer game where you played a character in charge of a group of people who are sent back through time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - 4 answers

Syncing up 2 USB Hdd on a Mac and Font converting software (PC to Mac) [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - 4 answers

I want to turn a 10 hour drive into a 10 minute time lapse video. [more inside]
posted on Nov 25, 2007 - 19 answers