They make a variety of bags that look and don't look like camera bags. I use the urban disguisel line myself.

i keep a copy on my laptop, one on the linux box via crashplan and a third copy half the country away on my friend's computer via crashplan as well.

i use this too. generates strong passwords for you and then autofills the forms. very nice.

yeah this was pretty bad. i imagine pretty much any video interpretation of his fiction is going to be terrible because his stuff is pretty far out there, and you would need a high budget to make half of the stuff actually look believable.

The advantage that TW has right now with their DVR is that (AFAIK) they have one that records HD programming and actually works - at a cost of just $10/mon. It's my understanding that the TiVo HD DVR not only costs $1k, but also seems to have some major build quality issues (they fail after a short while or something of that nature?).