This link came through twitter today and then Stuart tweeted a reply to it.

One thing that the blog author should try is using the suspend feature in Vista.  As Stuart mentioned, it is pretty good.

My little Fujitsu gets rebooted about once a month and the rest of the time it is just put into suspend mode.  This works great.  The laptop is ready to use in seconds (like less than five seconds), and is pretty stable.  I set my laptop to suspend when the screen is closed.

If you have a Vista based machine, try it, and live in the "instant on" future.