Alton Brown Pico Review, and some LJ Brain Trust Help Requests

[geminigirl]

Picoreview of Alton Brown's Feasting on Asphalt-good summer filler. It's interesting. I do wish they'd captioned the bits where he's talking and on the bike at the same time...I'm having a hard time hearing and understanding him.

Brain Trust Reqest #1:

I'm looking for help with a UPS or two. We seem to have more frequent power outages at the new house, and I'm looking for one UPS that I can plug the desktop computer/modem/router into, which will live in the office, and a second that will probably live in the family room, and which the laptops will get plugged into. I know effectively nothing about them, so I need help.


Brain Trust Request #2 (which I'm sure aquariumgirl will have some answers for)

I'm looking for information about fish-keeping. We're thinking about a fish tank. Freshwater, 20-30 gallons. I'm looking for information about building a healthy, relatively low maintenance system for hearty tropical fish-variety still TBD.

Brain Trust Request #3 If anyone has a better fix for the firefox bug that causes the apostrophe key to bring up the search box than the one I'm using now (which involves opening a tab, going to about:config, and changing the value for accessibility.typeandfind.flashbar) please let me know.

Brain Trust Request #4 is about toasters. I love my toaster oven, but in the interest of preserving limited counter space, I'm thinking about replacing it with an under the cabinet model in the new house. I know there have been issues in the past with fire, but does anyone know anything about current models?

Comments

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

A more radical suggestion for #3 then you're looking for: Try Opera for 24 hours. Since it's free and easy to very install, the trial won't cost you much. Personally I find it not as good as Firefox -- with all the extensions I want -- when Firefox works right. But given that Firefox's bugginess and the fact that the extensions keep ceasing to work when I install a new Firefox version, I prefer Opera. Most of the things that are extensions I want in Firefox are built in in Opera.

[geminigirl]

I tried Opera a while ago, and didn't much like it, but might try it again. I haven't had issues with Firefox extentions yet, but that's good to know.