We used to mix a few grains of rice into the many grains of salt in our shakers to keep the salt from lumping. Today's salt is cleaner and less prone to extract water from surrounding air.
This loss of hygroscopy, alas, also ruins salt as a dehumidifier. Rice, however, should still work, shouldn't it?
If your room is damp and hot, try strategically positioning a rice-filled bowl. It sure looks good, and the rice should remove some of the exhausting humidity.
Speaking of exhausting excesses, wouldn't it be great to rid from incorrect or no longer needed addresses the auto-complete list that comes up when you start typing an addressee in Outlook?
›› Has Outlook remembered an email address you mistyped, or do you want to get rid of an outdated name? Here's how to clear the auto-complete list that appears when you type in the To: field from unwanted entries.

We all know what happens when you put somebody who barely learned to skate on a crudely frozen lake — somebody like me — on a polished and resurfaced ice rink: concentrated pressure melts the ice melts under the blades, a thin film of water forms and somebody is sent around erratically on the wet, slippery surface.
That's almost right. Ironically, it is not weight and pressure that melt the ice but mostly — friction.
SEND6 is the slippery and wet surface for your big files. There's not much irony to it and I'm positive it does not work much better if you send your mouse dashing around on its pad to create friction — but SEND6 does send the heavy documents around with speed and grace like skates:
›› SEND6 lets you send and track files up to 100 MB easily without registering, but you can opt for registered and paid accounts including secure connections, online storage, an address book and branding, too.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: fabulous advice, of course. Join your roommates and partners gardening, dish-washing and watching football.
The Times New Roman email default in Mozilla Thunderbird? Well, no, you don't have to join that:
›› If your favorite email font is not Times New Roman, here's how to change the default font face and color for new messages in Mozilla Thunderbird.

"There was an Old Man of the Hague,
Whose ideas were excessively vague;"
— We meet this old man in one of Edward Lear's limericks:
"He built a balloon,
To examine the moon,
That deluded Old Man of the Hague.
— It's Lear's birthday today. Let's celebrate it (and any other birthday, of course) with, well, balloons:
›› Let the balloons bounce and the music play for a joyful birthday. (Outlook, Outlook Express)

"The trick to enjoying something," says illustrious physicist Richard A. Muller in one of his theorems, "is understanding why others enjoy it."
You don't have to enjoy everything, of course, but you can. You can copy other people's pleasure doing math, for example, or maybe your own enjoying ice skating as a kid — like you can copy your own formatting that paragraph up there so nicely in IncrediMail:
›› In IncrediMail, you can copy the formatting (font styles and sizes as well as colors) from one part to another with a few mouse strokes.

On Any Sunday, children and grown-ups abandon sanity. On motorcycles, they race on tracks and off field, against opponents and, it seems, against their own arms, legs and shoulders.
Some of the young ones don't even need motors on their cycles to risk their limbs: they pedal like crazy on their somewhat odd-looking bicycles. Come to think of it... this "bicycle motocross" looks like great fun. Let's try this at home!
"Bicylce Moto-cross(X)", made popular by Bruce Brown's motorcycle racing documentary, quickly turned into "BMX" and... you mean it says "GMX" in the title, not "BMX"? Well, that's exciting, too:
›› GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose 5 GB of online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program.

Your goal is to occupy three hieroglyph fields on the ancient Egyptian Tjau game board.
On every turn, you move both your and your opponent's pieces. How far depends on the number of pieces on the board, and you can move more or less freely: just don't bump into other pieces.
Horst Alexander Renz's amazing Ramses game (similar to 20 squares) has few simple rules and possibilities aplenty: 3.500 at the second turn. That's nothing, of course, compared to the just about infinite number of names you can give yourself in AIM Mail:
›› AIM Mail screen names are scarce, and yours might not reflect your real name, business or pseudonym perfectly. Fortunately, you can add any further name to the From: lines of all messages you send.

Cats, in ancient Egypt, were sacred animals. So their mother and goddess became very popular, too.
Over old Egypt's long history, Bast — depicted as a young woman's body carrying a lion or cat's head — was also worshipped as the goddess of fertility, love, music, dance (which, if Herodotus is to be believed, sparked interesting celebrations) and — the triad of women, birth and children. Which, of course, takes us to nowaday's Mother's Day:
›› The best part of Mother's Day is mom, no doubt about that. But a close second is sending carefully crafted emails using one of the wonderful IncrediMail letters with Mother's Day themes. Here are my top picks.

The Alps: majestic mountains bearing a name older than the languages spoken today. Conveniently for blog post etymology, Latin altus means "high", though, and albus is "white". — White and high like Mount Rainier in Alpine Messaging System's logo.
ALPINE, in turn, can also be read as "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email" and is, essentially, Pine with full Unicode support under a more liberal license:
›› Alpine is powerful console email program that makes you use email productively with automation aplenty and nary a distraction. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

When King Henry III. of England, in the early 13th century, ordered Motheringday to be celebrated on Laetare, the fourth Sunday in Lent, he had the "mother church" more in mind than women.
Soon, history has it, the visit to your mother church — maybe your mother's church — became a family get-together, and Mothering Sunday a celebration of mothers.
Other parts of the world have different Mother's Day histories and dates, of course. In any event (and at any time), a sweet card for mom will be welcome:
›› Send a Mother's Day card via email, and wish a happy holiday. (Outlook, Outlook Express)