Storing electrons

I just looked around me at work and realized that my cubicle is a gigantic battery recharge station. Plugged in right now:

Cell phone
Nook
Bike headlight battery pack
MP3 player
Helmet video camera

I'm normally not charging that much stuff at once, it just happened that all that stuff was at 50% or less charge this morning.

USB hubs

I've messed around with 4 port hubs in the past but it seems like I always need 5, and I've had significant trouble in the past with unreliable hubs causing device disconnects. And of course, the one that blew up my computer last week.

I'd like to have 7 or 10 port hubs so that I just didn't have to worry about running out anymore. Unfortunately, it seems like once you get past 4 port hubs, the designers seem to get a case of the raving uglies; almost all 7 or 10 port hubs are hideous. Also, they'll package 10 port hubs with a 1 amp power supply, which is crazy.

Since realizing that my current 10 port hub is a computer killer, I went on the hunt again and found what could be the right answer. Rosewill makes a non-hideous 10 port USB hub that ships with a 4 amp power supply and Newegg sells it for $25 shipped. In general Rosewill stuff has been pretty workmanlike for me in the past; nothing frilly but it does work.

Stay in the bike lane....

...no matter what.
NYC apparently needs more revenue. I think cyclists in NYC (from the video I've seen) do take it too far; I've seen them regularly riding absolutely anywhere including the wrong way up one way streets, between cars coming the other way, but requiring bikes to stay in the bike lane even HERE is ridiculous, in NYC it's impossible, as this guy shows. (and as the radio show host says, it's actually not illegal to leave the bike lane when necessary, not in ANY state).