i before e except after c?

After writing a couple of Newsvine posts i've realised how unsure i've become regarding basic grammar and spelling (nipping off to Google is far too easy). Years of typing code and emails with little if no actual writing has made me very rusty so I thought a list of common grammatical 'rules' was in order.

Affect or Effect?
Affect is a verb meaning to 'influence.' Effect is a noun meaning 'a result.' More rarely, effect is a verb meaning 'to cause something to happen.'

Between you and I or between you and me?
According to The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style, "Because the pronouns following between are objects of the preposition, the correct phrase is between you and me."

Commas and periods inside quotation marks?
All commas and periods go inside quotation marks. There are no exceptions.

Commas?
1) Put a comma before and, but, for,or, nor, so, yet when they connect two independent clauses [that is, sentences that can stand alone: read both aloud;each could start with a capital letter and end with a period].
2) Separate three or more items in a series with a comma.
3) Put a comma after introductory modifiers. "Because I was hungry, I bought a hamburger."
4) Set off interrupters with pairs of commas, pairs of parentheses, or pairs of dashes. "The hamburger, hot and juicy, tasted great."
5) Put commas around the name of a person or group spoken to. "I hope, Fred, that you're going with me."
6) Put commas around an expression that interrupts the flow of the sentence.

i before e except after c?
Yes, but there are around 144 exceptions, for example, Deity.

sic?
sic is a latin word meaning thus or just so. It is normally enclosed in brackets and inserted into quoted matter to indicate that the preceding word or words, mistaken though they may be, were just that way in the original.

That or Which?
That refers to people, animals, or things.
Which refers to animals and things, never to people.

Quotation Marks and Other Punctuation
1) ALL commas and periods should be placed inside the quotation marks.
2) ALL colons and semicolons should be placed outside the quotation marks.
3) Question marks and exclamation marks should be placed within the quotation marks when they apply only to the quoted material; they should be placed outside when the entire sentence, including the quoted material, is a question or exclamation.

Why is "I" capitalized?
In Middle English the first person was ich--with a lower-case i. When this was shortened to i, manuscript writers and printers found it often got lost or attached to a neighboring word. So the reason for the capital I is simply to avoid confusion and error.

Of course there's 100's more 'rules' but there's enough there for me to break at every opportunity and im sure this sentence alone breaks quite a few.