Still, if it was fixable, better to hand it out if somebody may be able to fix it, which is seems is what happened.

Dual booting from the same drive is usually pain, from my experience.

For the deck, you could boot Windows Portable off a micro sd card

I like using kill-the-newsletter.com to turn email newsletters into an RSS feed rather than filling up my email inbox

Reeder is great. Well worth the $5.

I mean, if it’s a functional printer and they didn’t want it, that’s an easy way to give it to somebody else to use.