This. I still use an ancient version of CuteFTP, which I purchased over half my life ago IIRC (I'm 31), on Windows 7 now. Zero problems.

This.

My mother makes an awesome Mac n' Cheese. She doesn't do anything fancy that I know of, but it tastes better than any other Mac n' Cheese I've had.

That's not to say that nobody else makes authentic Mac n' Cheese, but I just prefer my mother's. .. I should call my mother and have her make me some Mac n' Cheese next time she visits.

When I was doing BASH/C/C++/small-time x86 Assembly (high school/college), it was usually in VIM (for the *nix platform). Nowadays I'm a Windows user (just because software I need runs so much better on it), and utilize a combination of Notepad and Geany (nice little multiplatform editor), doing HTML/CSS/PHP. At the office I use Dreamweaver because, well.. the company paid for it, and it does the job :)

As an indie musician (not tied to a label at all), this blows my mind.

I myself, as well as numerous other friends, love to look up indie artists on YT before we hit a show, or when we're deciding who we're going to go see. I myself frequently research other bands I'm performing with (especially if they cover a tune that I also cover).

Musicians sign to labels so the label can handle a lot of the administrative work, as well as provide financing for production. If a label is unable to handle the time-sink of YT uploads (which is extremely important for the SEO of a band when done properly), that's one more thing the musician has to take care of by hand.

Increasing the overhead, or reducing the income to indie labels hurts the indie artists. That's what Google does when they force already well-squeezed labels (most indie labels don't pull down the huge chunks major labels, or even the major vanity labels do) to cut their limited profits more.

..But my current one is definitely my favorite.

I get up at 6:30 AM, relax, and breathe a bit before getting ready. At 7:30 I bike to work, and walk in the doors at 7:45. I check for "holy shit" e-mails, then clock in around 7:55. Hour lunch. Leave at 5, and once I'm gone, I don't have to think about work.

Plus, I make more money with this job than I have any other gig.

Prior jobs include systems manager for a newspaper (on-call 24/7, and believe me, they called - plus I usually worked 7 AM to 7 PM, salaried), artist for same newspaper before that. Left the newspaper industry to go work for a dot com where I had to live and breathe the job, got laid off, went back to the newspaper industry where I worked 3 different shifts depending on the week (some days I'd go in at 3 PM and work until 2 AM, others I go in at 7 and work until 6 PM).

Open Table's fees become much more tolerable when you go through a 3rd party that integrates it; they work out special deals for the 3rd party, so they can bundle it cheaply (or free) with other services.

They're pretty big in the digital marketing world for restaurants. They've got a number of clones popping up now trying to mimic some of the better aspects of the business.

My first "real job" was as an artist for a newspaper (even though my degree is in IT, I also do graphic & web design). Because of my IT degree, though, I was the backup for the IT person should he go on vacation/sick leave. Eventually, I became the systems manager there.

Years later, after working for a failed dot com and getting back into the trenches as a newspaper geek doing production work, my IT experience gave me a leg up in doing a lot of troubleshooting/automation, and I was also able to suggest upgrades to the production setup that improved our print quality by leaps and bounds. Now I'm working as a web/digital artist again, and still utilize my IT experience here in there (if not for anything else, then to make IT's life easier when submitting support requests).

Nearly any office job can be improved by some IT experience, especially in the realm of scripting/automation. The best part about IT experience? Understanding how and why something works (or doesn't). General logic skills combined with a little tech/scripting experience can go a long way to improving your workflow.

I work as a graphic and web designer, and I live in Photoshop and Illustrator. We don't utilize Typekit, or the cloud storage, so it didn't really affect us here at the office.

As long as I can still do my job, I'm fine. I'm not a HUGE fan of CC's monthly sub, but the cost/benefit ratio can be insanely beneficial if you HAVE the money for the monthly fee. Now, for my freelance work? Forget it. I'm still using CS2 at home, and don't see it changing right now unless I come into a huge chunk of change.

Glad to see dhcpcd is still being maintained. I rarely use *nix anymore (I do design and audio recording using software that doesn't always play well in Wine; it's easier to just make use of Windows for now, although I may be putting a Linux/BSD distro back on my laptop), but if it weren't for the clean and simple functionality of dhcpcd, I would've had fits doing networking way back when.

At least, it was the turning point. It was a great engine, with decent (albeit buggy) tools. As it grew, and modders became more and more ambitious, you began to see some really unique full games (originally called "TCs" or "Total Conversions").

I started with basic way back when I was a kid (I'm 30 now; some would say I'm still a child, but now I'm a child with arthritis and acid reflux :P), probably around 8 years old, plugging in BASIC games that I found in 321 Contact magazines. While I look at BASIC now and think, "Ugh, who would use that language", it did at least help me learn the basics of math and variables when it comes to programming, and by the time I hit college I already covered the Intro to C++ course myself quite some time before.

If it weren't for 321 Contact, I would've never even gotten into programming.

Both magazines are well designed and contain great bits of info if you're into that sorta thing. I highly recommend OFF-GRID, as it's got great information that's useful just in your daily life, even if you're not a survivalist.

Definitely a shame, but one big reason why your local paper isn't that big is because of a lack of financial support. The paper I used to work at in my previous town of residence went the same way; they weren't able to generate enough revenue for the corporate owners, so they had to budget less for news and more for advertising in order to stay afloat.

In cases like that, the best you can hope for is a change in leadership/ownership of the paper. I myself would love to see newspapers go non-profit.

Disclaimer: I've worked for 2 newspapers, and currently work for a media company (in the online division).

Why? Because a local newspaper is going to cover more relevant info, with more details, than numerous other mediums. It's an at-your-leisure consumption device, too.

I get the Sat. & Sun. local papers here. The Sat. for general weekend news, and the Sun. for big feature stories. Our paper frequently has some amazing local content; I recall a great 2 page spread on a local barbershop, and when one of the historic buildings burned down, they had almost daily coverage on the progress.

Plus, it's great for information on important city council stuff. Our city has been having the Great Trash Debate for some time, and now it's finally coming to a close (trying to figure out if trash pickup should be privatized, or if they should increase the cost of trash stickers to cover rising costs of maintenance for the trucks).

If you live in a major metro area, seek out the smaller hyper-local publications for your area.