So since I work from home about one day a week (and then a week at a time when I go on-call) I decided to rock the Skype for my conference calls instead of burning up my cell phone minutes (we do not have a landline phone).

My first thought was to use the Bluetooth headset I have for my cell phone …

Dear Lazyweb,

Does anyone else have as many problems with USB hubs as I do?

I seem to blow them out after about six months. My Dell monitor has a built-in four port (or so) USB hub. I was using it with my Mac Mini for a while, and it was quite useful.

Then, one day, the USB hub completely stopped …

OK, I’m bored with Vista.

It’s not very useful to me to even play with inside of a VM – mostly because I can’t get to Windows Update and stuff as long as I have it installed without a product key (30 day demo). And I’m not about to burn the license key for this installation in the VM.

I guess I’ll …