僕 or 私 are probably fine for posts (this depends on the content of the post I guess..). In comments on other people’s posts　or on replies to comments on your posts, I’d stick to 私 (if you need to refer to yourself at all), since you are either on someone else’s “turf” or you are implicitly thanking them for their help.

If I may, let me offer a bit of advice for slowing down.

If you have too much on your plate, it might seem like a good idea to slow down and just focus on review. The thought process goes “well, I’m to busy/tired/etc to study, but I don’t want to loose what I know, so I’ll just keep up with my current flashcards and review those without worrying about new material.” It’s tempting, but it’s not a good idea. You’ll get bored and you’ll feel stagnant, and you’ll probably quit reviewing. It will start with missing one day, then two, then a week, and soon enough, you’ll be to the point where you can’t even remember the last time you studied. And, you will have absolutely no desire to catch up.
I say it’s better to divert that energy away from old, boring material into something new and engaging. Watch some Japanese program with English subtitles. Try not to look down at them too often, but don’t punish yourself if you do. Every once in a while, if somebody says something you think is cool, write it down. Learn the lyrics to a few Japanese songs and sing them in the car. Don’t worry about making flash cards for the words you didn’t know, don’t bother, it’s not about learning words so you can use them later, it’s about learning the song so you can belt it out.
Don’t worry about forgetting what you know. You’ll forget some stuff, but most of it will come right back without much effort when you decide to get back into studying more seriously.

The worst thing you could do is make studying a chore, especially if it’s fruitless.

Those decks were probably originally created for Anki 1, which I believe had an option to include reverse cards just by checking a box. They were probably not changed (or not much) when Anki 2 came out.

Some people, myself (depending on when you ask) included, would say not to worry about going English->Japanese. In my opinion, the purpose of flashcards is not to “learn” a word, but to provide you with just enough information so that you can understand a word when seen in real context. They provide a bit of a crutch to hold you over until you actually internalize a meaning for the word. Going E->J would not really help in this regard.

Going E->J also runs into problems when your vocabulary starts to include words with similar meanings. Take for instance さむい and つめたい. Both mean “cold”, but you couldn’t really go E->J unless you added information like “cold for people or weather” or “cold (for objects)..a cold drink”. Which is fine, and you might make that distinction on a J->E card too, if you were so inclined. But it would not be necessary, since knowing that both mean “cold” is enough to let you understand the meaning when you see the word in context. The slight difference in usage would be picked up eventually over repeated interactions with the words, and with making mistakes when speaking or writing. Of course, for words that are actually synonymous in Japanese, you really couldn’t add anything to the English side of a card to help you distinguish.

I basically use the English side of the card not to provide a ‘definition’ or ‘translation’ of the Japanese side, but to provide a short hand or mnemonic to provide a clue to what the word means in context.

As I understand it, it’s not really an update, but a completely new product.
It was supposed to be in alpha testing now, but the site is still just a “coming soon” page.

You haven’t seen much excitement about it here because we’ve all become jaded skeptics.
We’ll see what it’s like when it gets put out.

The previews for the new site look nice, but, despite what Koichi et al. might think, the problem with Textfugu has never been poor design of missing features; it’s been the lack of content.
What I’m afraid of is the new site, when it does become available, will drive a lot of new students to sign up and pay for what they are told is a “zero-to-fluency guide” and only find out later that it’s patchy with coverage, that it’s 95% English exposition and only 5% actually Japanese, that the downloadable content doesn’t match the lessons well, that errors that go unfixed for years, etc.

Of course, when the site does open up for alpha, it will only be for Textfugu lifetime members at no charge. So you get to test the site out for free (by which I mean you get to work as a tester/reviewer for Tofugu for free) to help make it better for others later (assuming it ever actually leaves alpha/beta). Originally, they said that only lifetime members who joined in 2013 would be able to participate. Now, unfortunately, it seems to be open to everyone.

I say “unfortunately” not because I think that only us old timers deserve the chance, but because having it limited would prevent people from signing up for Textfugu (a dead site) just to test for Eto Eto (an unfinished site). Now, there is an advertisement for a sale that essentially reads “Hey, here’s your chance, if you pay us some money now, we’ll let you work for us later for no pay.”

There are people on this site who are willing review and provide constructive feedback (a service most companies would have to pay people to do) for free, because we actually (somehow) still believe that this could be an amazing resource for others and are willing to put time into improving it.

Joel, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t what you said just a specific case of what I said?

To me there is no real grammatical difference between the constructions 寒くなる and 寒くなくなる.
In the first case, something becomes cold (implying that it didn’t start cold) and in the latter, something becomes ‘not cold’ (implying that is started out cold).

I was trying to be more general with my description, but if I was wrong in some way, I’d like to know.

Both the original sentence and your version are correct sentences, but the meanings are different. To try to see the difference, try reading each sentence starting with the word before the は.

Original: レストランはあまり好きじゃない。- I don’t like restaurants.
If we put the rest of the sentence back:
[値段が高い]レストランはあまり好きじゃない。 – I don’t like [high priced] restaurants.

Yours: 値段はあまり好きじゃない。- I don’t like prices.
If we put the rest of the sentence back:
[レストランの高い]値段はあまり好きじゃない。 – I don’t like [restaurants' high] prices.

I think your trouble with the が might have something to do with the way nouns are modified in Japanese. I can’t speak for Spanish, but in English we modify nouns in two different ways. One way is by putting adjectives in front of the noun: “the red car”, “the big house”, etc. The other way is by putting long phrases after the noun: “the car my friend bought”, “the house down the street”.

In Japanese, anything used to describe a noun (no matter how long it is) comes before the noun. So you would say: “the red car” and “the big house”, but also “the my friend bought car” and “the down the street house”. Sometimes, these descriptive parts can get very long.

So to say “I don’t like restaurants with high prices.” you need to first say “I don’t like restaurants” (レストランは好きじゃない), and then add the part to describe the restaurant.

It might help to look at these three sentences, all of which have the same meaning:
値段が高いレストランはあまり好きじゃあない。
高い値段があるレストランはあまり好きじゃない
高い値段のレストランはあまり好きじゃない。

You are right about the こと at the end of a verb. It turns the verb into a gerund, similar to the -ing in English.
“Running is hard” — ‘Running’ in this sentence is a gerund (a noun-ified verb)
はしる　こと　は　むずかしい

What is the sentence “It’s boring for Tom to fly to America everyday” about? What’s the subject? In English, it’s a little tricky to say…technically the subject is ‘it’, but what is ‘it’ referring to? It’s referring to the act of flying to America everyday! So we can rewrite the sentence this way: “Flying to america everyday is boring for Tom.” So if we break that sentence into chunks, we can translate the chucks and then arrange them into a Japanese sentence order.
[Flying to America everyday] [is] [boring] [for Tom]
[毎日アメリカへ行くこと] [は] [つまらない] [for Tom]

The only part left untranslated above should show you that トムさんにとって has to mean “for Tom”.

A　にとって　B　は　Cです。 For A, B is C.