TIPPING TIPS. Perhaps it's late to share tipping advice for 2004. But think of it this way: It's early for 2005.

Doug Gordon of Gothamist has a useful piece with links to The Original Tipping Page.

Here's input from CNN/Money's Jeanne Sahadi. And here's her follow-up.

And here are some other Big Apple tip suggestions from Reginald James of About.com. (Bonus tip for About.com: Cut down on the ads and pop-ups.)