will do
i have read the battery faq, but would you mind outlining what you mean by simple practices?
When you are next to your magsafe, plug it in. If you are always near the magsafe, then just unplug it every so often (once a week is fine). Every month or so, run it down for a full charge.
The two main things to consider is you want to exercise the battery every so often, and you need to calibrate OS X every so often (there are instructions on how to do this on the apple site).
I personally use my macbook air closer to how I use my iPad. Unplugged a lot. By the time the battery is used up, either I'll be happy to give apple a couple hundred bucks for a new one or it'll be time to upgrade. =) 1000 cycles is a lot (3 years of once a day). I don't want to have the toyota prius symptom with this thing (where people are always watching the batteries instead of just driving normally).