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Hey, I just used your trick to add Google Checkout donations for my freeware app. Thanks for the very clear writeup!

I opted to offer PayPal donations as an option as well. I would love to say "Take that, PayPal," but I think lots of people have PayPal accounts and not Google Checkout accounts.

Now to sit back and wait for the tsunami of money to come rolling in. :)

Shouldn't the title of this post be "Put Your Mac to Sleep Faster"?

Nitpick aside, this tip made my day. Like you, I wait for the pulsing light before I put my laptop in my bag. Having to wait 45 seconds really detracted from the feeling of having an on-the-go machine.

I don't ply it forward, but I do wipe the handle on the paper towel dispenser so it's not wet when the next person uses it.

I think the best solution is motion-activated dispensers. I don't like air dryers because you have to wait for the person before you to finish, whereas you can rip off a piece of paper towel and move away from the dispenser or leave the bathroom altogether, allowing the next person to use it right away. I also don't have the patience to wait for an air dryer to get me all dry. I always end up finishing the job by wiping my hands on my pants. If others share my impatience with air dryers they might not bother to wash their hands at all.

I wonder what they do in Japan. Their toilet technology is pretty advanced. I wonder if their hand-washing technology is too.

I really enjoyed this. I love how much a person can learn just by listening to advanced judoka discussing techniques among themselves.

I myself was wondering how well it would fit in one of those free cardboard mailing envelopes you can get from the post office or from FedEx. Some of them have padded interiors. There are also tons of padded envelopes in that form factor, some of them designed for style, that you can already buy.

What did you use to create the screencast?

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I was asking whether you meant to use a "blockquote" tag rather than a "quote" tag.

The quote from Will Thimbleby is being rendered as plain text. At first I didn't realize it *was* a quote -- it sounded like you were talking to yourself for a minute there. Do you mean

rather than ?

While I'm nitpicking HTML... the textarea in which I'm entering this comment is awfully wide. It goes so far to the right that it is overlapped by ("underlaps"?) the column that runs down the right side.

If you're not seeing what I'm seeing, I'd be happy to send my browser details.

Oh... and thanks for the article. :) Great blog.

I have to say I disagree with the suggestions that you suck up to him. It'll be good for a laugh or two, but if you start to overwork it he'll find some funny way to call you on it. He wasn't born yesterday! :)

I agree, don't laugh too much and don't try to be funnier than you are. The improv advice is good, and I like the "40-Year-Old Virgin" and loofah ideas, though who knows, maybe he's reading now and will be prepared. Hell, maybe he *submitted* those ideas!

When in doubt, simply take his questions at face value and answer them reasonably. Don't worry about being entertaining, he'll steer the conversation masterfully.

Disclaimer: I'm terrible at thinking on my feet in these situations. So I'm saying do as I say, not as I do.