[mgreenbe]

Good advice. Transaction costs and, in particular, startup costs are some of the most difficult things I face in my (graduate student) day-to-day. Simply getting up to the whiteboard can be difficult.

I'm definitely going to start using a reference managing website.

I've been using Ad Block Plus to keep myself out of Reddit and Google Reader at work. (Sadly, I think the time has come to add HN, as well.) The method works, and I've been tempted only once or twice to circumvent the blocks.