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Yoku Moku
!>http://www.yokumoku.com/images/SMMAIN2.JPG! I picked these butter cookies up on the way through Narita, I have to say they are just awesome. You can buy them in America at Neiman Marcus or Saks, but they are from Japan and get gret “reviews”:http://www.superfuture.com/city/reviews/review.cfm?ID=159 there. bq. !>http://www.yokumoku.co.jp/company/img/com_yoku_img01.jpg! Yoku Moku Yoku Moku produces some of the finest all natural butter…
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Microsoft Zune to compete with iPod
!>http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/2137_zune.jpg! Well, I’m glad that J and Robbie are on this, nice to know there will be some competition. The 30GB Zune player direct from Microsoft will have Wifi so you can download without needing a PC. Will be about $400 according to rumors, so it will be pricey. They even have a “blog”:http://www.zuneinsider.com/ for…
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Intel Core 2 Duo Desktops Arrive
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Shanghai Restaurants
John and went to “Ai Wan Ting”:http://www.aiwanting.com.cn/ ?????????at the “Superbrand Mall”:http://www.entershanghai.info/country/Ci_22_set.htm (????, Zheng Da Chang Cheng) and had a great meal. Great views and really fresh fish and lobster too. Duane also took use to “South Beauty 881 Club”:http://www.qiaojiangnan.com/ (???, Qiao Jiang Nan) in Puxi (we’ve also been to the branch in Pudong) As “Eurobiz”:http://www.sinomedia.net/eurobiz/v200407/risk0407-02.html…
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Bluetooth Headsets: Plantronics 640 and Motorola H5
Well, I seem to have misplaced my Plantronics 640 headset again, so not a bad time to look at the headset market once more. Here’s the recommendations: * “Plantronics 640”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=12867242/zip_code=98004/. These have come down a lot in price to $65 at newegg. Nice form factor. It is nine grams and loud enough. Main problem I…
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Sonicare Toothbrushes
!>http://www.sonicare.com/images/products/Dsum_hero_LORES.jpg! Connie got these Sonicare toothbrushes for Calvin, but I have to say that I really love them. The only confusing thing is the names of the various versions, so here’s a decoder ring and where to buy them: * Elite (a.k.a Best). They have two models, the Elite 9500 which has two speeds and…
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Nordstrom Anniversary Sale
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Sony System Recovery
There are two ways to get your Sony back, first you can create a DVD for yourself. They also ship with an invisible partition with the complete information, but it isn’t very obvious how to do it. “Sony eSupport”:http://www.iq.sony.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=CISCV3,Company={46BFA530-E01F-4F7C-B98B-69C2AA06051B},Case=Obj(395689),TS=Externalv4,T=response_case.tem,VARSET_OBJ=395689,VARSET_TOP=TRUE,question=ref(QC):ord(1),question=ref(QB):ord(1) has this and more generally in the “Sony VGN-TX650P”:http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-faq.pl?mdl=VGNTX650P# support FAQ # Choose Start/All Programs/VAIO/VAIO Recovery…
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Unlock EDGE-enable Sony VAIO VGN-TX650P
!>http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000050175.JPG?0.5964158879566592! “Engadget”:http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/20/how-to-unlock-your-edge-enabled-sony-vaio-vgn-t350/ and “Sony eSupport”:http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-faq.pl?mdl=VGNTX650P#. Well, in the campaign to get things unlocked and ready when I’m off overseas, here are the instructions for how to unlock a Sony VAIO with a builtin EDGE/GPRS modem. You don’t need this in the US since Cingular has a $80/month all-you-can-eat data plan. Here are the complete Instructions:…
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Window Fans and Swamp Coolers
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Personal Weather Stations
Pretty cool, “Wunderground”:http://www.wunderground.com/stationmaps/gmap.asp?zip=98004&wmo=99999 has personal weather stations on google maps soyou can see the temperature around your area. Check it out. And yes, for Seattle having 80 degree weather at 10:30PM *is* a hot day! By comparison, “Shanghai”:http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/58362.html looks positively nice at 77F and overcast but it is humid and “Beijing”:http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/54511.html is going to be…
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Any Video or Audio Format Conversion
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Monopoly Rules
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Ideal Wine Cellar Temperature and Humidity
Bascially, the average home is 20 degrees C, but this is too hot for wine, the ideal is 10-13 C or 50-55 degree Fahrenheit. YOu can have it as high as 15C for emdium term storage but not above 18C. Main thing is to prevent temperatur fluctuation as noted by “thewinedoctor.com”:http://www.thewinedoctor.com/advisory/buystoreidealcellar.shtml with “intowine”:http://www.intowine.com/cellar.html#basic saying much…
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Blackberry doesn’t Enterprise Activate and Free Blackberry Games and Apps
Dumb me, I have a new 8700 and couldn’t get it to enterprise activate, the whole activation process would hang with “Activation Server not found.” So what’s the problem, I have been gettings lots of NTP messages and put a spam filter on it, the way that activation works though is that email messages are…
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Sprinkler System Startup and Shutdown
“Yardcare.com”:http://www.yardcare.com/expertadvice/maintenance/watering/springstartup.html has some good advice about how to startup your sprinkler system. These are specific instructions, but it does mean I need to figure out where all the various valves are to turn the thing on. Fortunately, it never really freezes here, so turning it on is pretty easy if you know where the valves…
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China Mobile WAP, MMS, SMTP/POP and GPRS Settings
OK, here are the detailed configuration you’ll need for a phone you want to make work with a China Mobile SIM thanks to “kuldaen”:http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/index.php?name=MDForum&file=viewtopic&p=449343 For WAP, the official site is on “Monternet.com”:http://www.monternet.com/moneditor/cs/wap/wapguide/ WAP home: http://wap.monternet.com Gateway IP: 10.0.0.172 Port: 9201 GPRS APN: cmwap Username and Password don’t matter BTW with Sony Ericsson phones, they have…
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Engadget Mobile
Engadget realy does have a good set of mobile tidbit from around the world including some interesting trends: h2. Innovations The big ones appear to be making things slimmer and slimmer and also having a real music phone plus an onslaught of Windows Mobile devices: !http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2006/06/canary14.jpg! “Motorola Canary”:http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/, this is the RAZR follow-on codenamed the…
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HTC Star Trek is the RAZR Killer
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Setting up WAP and GPRS
Every phone has a whole series of WAP and GPRS settings to get data to work. The SIM card lets voice traffic work, but for some strange reason, the WAP and GPRS settings are completely separate, so for each phone you own, you have to go to the Internet and figure out both how to…
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Tour de France
Well Lance isn’t in it this year and just about every major star (Ivan Basso, Jan Ulrich, Vino, etc.) are out on a doping scandal, so its been interesting following things. See it on Tour de France 2006 blog for blog commentary. “Yahoo”:http://sports.yahoo.com/sc also has good coverage with particularly easy to find “photos”:http://sports.yahoo.com/sc
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United EQM and EQS Explained
United has a very strange system for calculating mileage if you are a Mileage Plus member, basically, if you are a United 100K traveler, then any ticket you book from full-far economy to first class and even including discounted business is counted as 150% of your actual mileage flow for the purposes of getting to…
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Blackberry and RedBerry in China
“Dan Harris”:http://www.chinalawblog.com/chinalawblog/2006/04/blackberry.html notes that Blackberry will be in China in the middle of this year with its own Blackberry. About time. That would be truly great and let’s hope pricing is reasonable too. Apparently, China Unicom will have a cloned service called the Redberry as well.
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Motorola RAZR V3 Mods
Wow, “Mark”:http://www.mark-world.tv/motorola/ has a great tutorial on how to modify and make the razor really yours. Here’s a quick summary of what I did based on his excellent site. h2. Getting Started with the right bootloader * “Software”:http://www.mark-world.tv/motorola/page1.html. First off, he tells you about all the software you need. A key piece is going looking…
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Kids Bikes
Time once again to look at bikes for that interesting age between 9 and 13 where the standover height is about 26″ !
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Why doesn’t Apple sell in China?
“Apple”:http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/intlstoreroutingpage.html sells in 50 countries, but for some reason they don’t sell in China where the darn things are made. How depressing. They do sell in Hong Kong though, but I don’t know how computer imports are sold. If you do ship into China your own Apple, “Fedex”:http://www.fedex.com/us/international/irc/profiles/irc_cn_profile.html?gtmcc=us has a good site that summarize the…
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Next set of Canon lenses
Now that I’ve settled into the new Canon Digital Rebel XT, the net is that the flash is nice, the camera doesn’t feel so tiny anymore and the reviews are right, having a F/4 lense really is an issue for indoor shooting. I love the 24-105mm lense for general shooting but really could use F/2.8.…
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Freeware Blackberry Games
BlackBerryToday: Software: Games
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Blackberry free applications
BlackBerryTools OTA. Browse to this with your Blackberry and it downloads over the air. See “Powertoys”:http://www.blackberryforums.com/showthread.php?t=3025 for more information about it.
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China trips
A good buddy of mine was asking about fun quick trips in China. While there are many, hat top to Duane for these two suggestions: 1. Cruise of the Li River and spending a day or two in Yangshuo, a very scenic and unique town at the end of the cruise. This would be a…