The two best kitchen purchases I've made in the last few years: pressure cooker and bread maker.
I can and have made bread by hand, but it was always a tedious process with average results. Bread maker makes it so easy and results are excellent (once I adjusted the recipes for altitude)
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability