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Honda Fit
Consumer Guide, Edmunds review Honda Fit – Autoblog. The Honda Fit just got the top rating from Car and Driver this month. It is a subcompact that is the size of the original Civic (if you remember that car, we had a 79 Civic called the rollerskate). It is the best selling car in Japan.…
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Putt Putt in Seattle
“Putt Putt Golf”:http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/Athletics/golfcrse.htm#green. There are two municipal places. Interbay has putt putt, but Green Lake has pitch and putt.
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King County Library System NetLibrary
King County Library System. It’s impossible to figure out how to do this, but King County has a bunch of relationships. On the main page are links to Overdrive, to get to Netlibrary, you have to find this magic page, type in your library number and these audio books re available to you.
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SD Card Guide
The new Panasonic DVD-D300 needs an SD card for still photos. It is only 3Mp resolution, but OK for snap shots. So what to get. Well, the main issue is read/write speed. The benchmark is 20MBps or 133x as the standard interface was once 133 times less thatn 20MBps. A 1GB card has probably the…
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DVD Media Reviews
There are lots of reviews on the web on DVD writers, but very little on the media itself. The right kind of media can make a big difference. I’ve used the Verbatim Data Life Plus line for CDs for a long time with great results, but with the plethora of DVDs out, what’s the right…
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Costco Auto and Discounts
Costco Costco Auto Buying Program. Well I always knew that Costco had a program for buying cars. I didn’t realize how online it is. Now you can contact dealers online. Also if you are an executive member and you go to a participating dealer, you get 15% off of service, parts and accessories. That alone…
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Mini DVD Consumables
If you buy a DVD camcorder, then you are going to need lots of: * Verbatim Mini DVD-R 1.4GB 4X DigitalMov (Verbatim-95089) – PriceGrabber.com. This is a 5 pack and Verbatim has been reliable for me in the past. They are about $13, so about $3.50 each from buy.com * “Sony 3 Pack DVD-RW”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=1597832/sort_type=bottomline. These…
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Mini DVD Media
Mini DVD (DVD-R) Mini DVD (DVD-RW) Camcorder Video Media – PriceGrabber.com. If we are going to get a mini DVD Camcorder, you need special 8cm media to put in there. Here is Pricegrabbers list. The choices are essentially * DVD-R which is write once and stores 20 minutes worth of video. They are about $5…
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Web 2.0 Companies
From Istanbul To Sand Hill Road: Web 2.0 Companies. _I’ve been starting to use del.icoi.us a bunch so it is fun to randomly go through links that others are using. Kind of like the days before I could really look through all the blogs on the Internet. Anyway, here’s a list of Web 2.0 companies.…
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Digital Videos from your library
King County Library System – eCollection – Home. How amazingly cool. King County now has a deal where you can download IMAX and other films onto your PC. Check them out and watch them. They also do classical music and books-on-tape as well. These do use Windows encryption so they won’t work on your iPod…
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CSI Miami music
CSI:guide.com – CSI and CSI:Miami Music. CSI Miami in particular has just the best music. Unlike the unofficial Alias soundtracks, no one seems to have complied them, but at least there is a list of some of the songs on the CSI Guide.
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United Airlines Promotions
United Airlines – Promotions: Air. These folks run an amazing number of promotions, but in order to participate, like a robot, you have to go to the promitoin site and sign up. So check there every so often. Big ones are win a million miles if you fly once. If you fly inside Asia, get…
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Western Digital Caiviar SE16 400GB
Oh well, I’ve long had a failing 250GB hard drive (a Western Digital Caviar) in our old Athon XP 3200 system. Now it has finally given up the ghost. It won’t format and it won’t boot. When I diagnosed it last time, some sectors had failed and it wouldn’t boot properly. Now it looks like…
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NJStar better than Windows XP
Chinese Software, Japanese Software & Korean Software by NJStar ???. In writing Chinese, I’ve mainly been using the free inpute method editor (IME) that comes with Windows XP. Our Chinese tutor says that I should give NJStar a try. There is a free trail, but she likes the word processor and the communicator better. The…
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Special Friend Day
Some special friends and their favoriate broadway tunes: * Amazon.com: With a Song In My Heart (from the 1952 film)/ Pal Joey (with 1952 cast members): Music: Harold Arlen,Sammy Fain,George Gershwin,Peggy Lee,Matt/ Livingston, Fud Malneck,Alfred Newman,Richard Rodgers,Arthur Schwartz,Jule Styne,Various Composers,. With A Song from my Heart from the 1952 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical called Spring…
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DSLR Buying Guide
While I’m at it, the new Fuji F10 and the Canon SD550 have been great recommendations for snapshot cameras. The F10 in particular because it is so fast and doesn’t need a flash in most situations. Even though these are just 6Mp or so, the lense begins to make a real difference with these small…
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Camcorder Buying Guide
With our Canon 100MC dying and eating tapes, its time to plumb the markets again. A quick A9/Google search for google””hd camcorder reviews” reveals that there are four big camcorder review sites listed below. What is clear is that right now, with CES just having happened, there is tremendous innovation. Basically, the DVD camcorder has…
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iPod Speakers
Well, Iwe have a variety of speakers sets now, so a quick long term review and then on to finding a good portable system: * JBL Creature II. These are PC speakers so for listening in a whole room and is the 21st century version of bookshelf speaker set. They sound OK. 4/4 on playlist,…
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Brunch in San Diego
AOL City Guide: San Diego – City’s Best Brunch, Restaurants. Some brunch recommendations. Neimans
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Romantic Dining in San Diego
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Good metroplex, just be careful of the lines
We don’t go to the theater that often, but last Saturday, after a long day of playing chess, a trip to see Ice Age 2, Meltdown was well deserved. This theater let’s you buy tickets via Fandango.com. A great service, although probably not as necessary out in the Tri-Cities, but for 13 parents and kids,…
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Quick and convenient to the Convention Center
We were there for the State Chess Tournament. I hate to admit it but having lived in Seattle for 18 years, we’ve never been to the Tri-cities, so literally didn’t know what to expect. First of all, its super quick to get there. Just 3 hours from Seattle. The Hilton Garden is *the* place to…
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Sony Vegas 6.0 Updates
Sony Media Software – Downloads – Vegas Update. Sony is one of the few companies that make finding their updates easy. Here they are. The latest version is 6.0d. I’ve used the Video Explosion Deluxe for a long time and like it. Sony bought Sonic Foundry which OEMed to Video Explosion, so this is the…
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Used Cell Phones
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Home Switch
Switches – PriceGrabber.com. I have a single router at home, but upstairs, I have two printers and a notebook. The issue is that wireless networking is just unreliable I’m finding. I constantly find that the connection is broken, so I’m back to wired networking for now. Fortunately there is an ethernet jack upthere, so off…
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Best Home Router Reviews
Hardware Router Chart | Tom’s Networking. They have Den Guru now and they list the throughput of the various devices. It is amazing to see how fast these are. The Netgear WPNT834 for instance can up/download at 94Mbps. That should be fast enough for any broadband connection. The D-Link DGL4300 is the same at 93Mbps,…
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Custom made and great
Well, I’ve tried lots and lots of computer bags and sleeves and I’ve settled on the stuff form Waterfield aka sfbags.com http://sfbags.com You can design your own bag and they make it for you. The sleeve I use is from them and they have a sleevecase http://www.sfbags.com/products/sleevecases/sleevecases.htm that has just about every option. I use…
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That’s a great ad campaign…I love it
Goes along with What goes in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. Here are folks I’d vote for the top five (again like Letterman). By the way the correct http://www.visitlasvegas.com/vegas/features/be-anyone/ is here. 5. Johnny Cash. Mainly because I liked Walked the Line and have gotten all his soundtracks :_) 4. Joel Goodsen. This for afictionados.…
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Be Anyone in Las Vegas
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