I check my mailbox once a month. The junk mail really accumulates. I found out, that since 1997, Canada Post letter carriers respect "No Junk Mail" stickers on mailboxes.
Frequent beeps from a Windows box were disturbing my mental equilibrium. So, I took some time out, and figured out how to disable the Windows internal speaker.
I was working on some Windows batch files that had a bunch of hard-coded paths. It turns out, there is an easy way to get rid of that brittleness by capturing the current directory in the batch file.