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Qanta A380
Qantas A380 maiden flight to Los Angeles | NEWS.com.au The inaugural A380 service left Melbourne at 11.15 AEDT, and is scheduled to land in Los Angeles at 7.30am local time (1.30am Tuesday AEDT), where it will receive a star-studded welcome from Qantas Ambassador John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Qantas A380…
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Cooper Mini Convertible
http://www.miniusa.com/#/build/configurator/mini_convs-m now that is a cool looking car. 2009s are just coming out
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Dialing code
Wow, I can never remember how to dial from China to the US (001) is the answer, but “howtocallabroad.com”:http://howtocallabroad.com has the general list.
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Sequoia slides
Well, someone posted the Sequoia slide <div style=”width:425px;text-align:left” id=”__ss_648808″><a style=”font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;” href=”http://www.slideshare.net/eldon/sequoia-capital-on-startups-and-the-economic-downturn-presentation?type=powerpoint” title=”Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn”>Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn</a><object style=”margin:0px” width=”425″ height=”355″><param name=”movie” value=”http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sequoia-1223625495238287-9&stripped_title=sequoia-capital-on-startups-and-the-economic-downturn-presentation” /><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/><param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always”/><embed src=”http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sequoia-1223625495238287-9&stripped_title=sequoia-capital-on-startups-and-the-economic-downturn-presentation” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed></object><div style=”font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;”>View SlideShare <a style=”text-decoration:underline;” href=”http://www.slideshare.net/eldon/sequoia-capital-on-startups-and-the-economic-downturn-presentation?type=powerpoint” title=”View Sequoia Capital on…
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What is the future?
< !http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AN227B_MARKE_NS_20081009223754.gif> Where will the market go. The thing that is wrong about the chart is that it is not inflation adjusted, the 1970s chart is really straight down on a real basis.
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1970s
!<http://mises.org/images3/Dow65-84.gif! For some reason the 1970s don’t have a fancy label although I remember stagflation. Like the depression, it all started with the 1960s which featured massive deficit spending (to fund the Vietnam War, sound familiar) and loose monetary policy to reduce the sting of the deficit (sound familiar) but which caused a massive bubble…
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Understanding the Great Depression and the 1970s
Well how come the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression has a cool name, but the 1970s do not? Wikipedia as usual has a great analysis that includes how different countries were affect. Particularly relevant now in our interconnected world. But the causes are the big issue Causes of the Great Depression which comes down to Keynes and monetary theory…
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Sequoia issues warning of secular bear market (aka it is better to hold t-bills)
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Utilities in Seattle
It is amazing how easy it is to setup all your utilities from your coach in Seattle. You literally don’t have to talk with anyone. The only problem is that URLs for signup are so buried in information, As an illustration and what a dashboard should look like to signup and then to monitor/pay your…
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AVI on Mac
AVI is a Microsoft format that Mac OS X doesn’t read, so how do you make it work: Watching AVI Movies in Mac OS X – Mac Guides VLC Player is a cross platform application with a mac version available for download from the VLC website. [I’ve found that mplayer is there, but seems to…
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Top 100 Hits
“Wikipedia”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_(United_States) is amazing, there is someone who actually keeps track of every top song over the last 50 years for each week. Kind of fascinating to see how culture has changed!
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Camera recommendations for the Christmas season
Well, the camera market is definitely maturing, so that now across three of the four major segments there are choices that are going to last a while: h3. High-end Prosumer for affordable luxury :0) If you love cameras, then the Canon 5D Mark II looks like the body to drool over. For a long time…
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What is the Apple Brick?
The ‘Brick’ is… | 9 to 5 Mac The MacBook manufacturing process up to this point has been outsourced to Chinese or Taiwanese manufacturers like Foxconn. Now Apple is in charge. The company has spent the last few years building an entirely new manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets of water to carve the…
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VisualHub is dead, Handbrake is the answer?
Sad comment, Visualhub based on ffmpeg worked great. I gladly paid for it. Now, I guess its off to find another product.The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) VisualHub is gone. There are no current plans to move VisualHub to open source. The underlying engine for much of the compression magic, ffmpeg, is already open-source and present…
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Fring lets you call from iPod Touch or iPhone over Skype
Fring Enables VoIP Calls Over Wi-Fi for iPhone with Skype Support – Mac Rumors Can call directly using iPhone to another person with iPhone running Fring- Call MSN or Skype users that are using their computer- Call using Skype account, which allows you to have your own Skype number and at a discount rate for…
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Puzzle’s Galore
Well, if you like fun puzzles and word problems, a google:”word puzzles” gets you to a sea of interesting sites. I like “Puzzlersparadise.com”:http://puzzlersparadise.com for a good collection of word problems.
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MMS from iPhone
AppleInsider | How to send picture messages (MMS) from your iPhone to send your first iPhone MMS message. Simply select a photo from your iPhone’s Photo Album, drop it into a new email message, and address the email to your friend’s text-messaging email. Text messaging email addresses for US carriers The Xs should be replaced…
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AutoCAD drawings
Well, while AutoCAD costs thousands of dollars, use http://www.edrawingsviewer.com/MAC_Viewer.html to look the complete drawings on a Mac.
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MMC Card vs. SDHC
Have an old MMC card. I’m surprised for once. A SD card is the same and an old Canon SD500 takes the 1GB card but the Canon 970IS does not.
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Changing the login window background
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Are you tired of the standard background for the login window? Well, if you are running Tiger or Leopard, you can easily change this picture to anything you wish. This is handy for schools or organizations who want a static background showing off their spiffy logo. For Leopard Users To…
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MacBook Air reinstallation and hopefully Time Capsule transfer
OK, so I’ve completely wiped my MacBook Air, time to rebuild it. Here is a list of things that have to happen. Sure sounds Windows like doesn’t it đ # Remote install Mac OS X. Sigh. This is going to take 4 hours over the air apparently # Try the “Time Capsule recovery”:http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_restore_imac_macbook_from_time_capsule_machine_backup.html which comes…
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Mac Routine Maintenance (Not!) don’t do this
With Windows, I have this whole ritual for keeping things clean that include these free utilities * Spybot. Keep immunizations up for adware, spyware and use its Tools to fix the registry of bad entries, cleanup startup groups of shovelware * Antivir. Freeware antivirus package. Just need to keep it scanning and take the regular…
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MacBook Air unexpectedly logs out
When I leave my MacBook Air overnight to say do a Time Capsule, I see that it will log itself out unexpectedly and automatically. Kind of wierd, my MacBook Pro doesn’t do that. Some users are having the same issue with the “Mac Mini”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7766844 and the only real diagnosis is: Apple – Support – Discussions…
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Smaller than a dSLR recommendations
David asked me, OK, zooming back (no pun intended), if you want a smaller camera, what are the realy choices: # Canon or Panasonic point and shoot. If you just want a point and shoot like the Instamatic of old, then pretty much anything in the el cheapo 8MP range is going to work. Last…