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Azureus Encryption
broadband ? Forums ? Shaw ? Fight Throttling! Use Encryption!!!. This is the Azureus and uTorrent both support encrypted peer to peer sharing now and use the same protocol. Might be a better option now than bitcomet.
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Microsoft iPod packaging
YouTube – microsoft ipod packaging parody. Very funny parody
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zazzle
Zazzle.com – Customize, Buy, and Sell Unique and Personalized Gifts, T-shirts, Posters, Prints, Greeting Cards, and Postage. cool gifts that are personalized.
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PWC Moneytree
PricewaterhouseCoopers: Global: Insights & Solutions: MoneyTree™ Survey Report
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Hamachi
Hamachi : Stay Connected. A VPN application that is freeware. Folks on the Network Magic forums like it.
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Shannon Hale’s Goose Girl
squeetus: books. Amazingly, this is a book that everyone in the family loved. We listened to it for six non-stop hours. Shannon Hale’s first effort and it is delightful. Ani is a little slow, but who wouldn’t love the ending. It is a retelling of a Grimm’s fairy tale and is a classic really.
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D-Link Router Firmware Dies
Talk about a strange problem. Today, everything got really slow. Called up Comcast and they pointed out a nifty tool called the Speakeasy – Speed Test. You plug a machine directly into their cable modem and it measure the real speed from a server. Here in Seattle, I got pretty close to the theoretical maximum…
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Free McAfee for Comcast Users
SECURITY – MCAFEE SECURITY MANAGER – Comcast.net. This has got to be the worst promoted thing in the world, but bascially you get the whole Mcafee suite of firewall, antivirus and other things are free if you have a comcast account and an email. Check it out. A nice value.
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Get there before its all gone…
What a terrific place. A traditional locally owned bookstore. I highly recommend you frequent it before it really disappears. It like Powell’s in Portland are really unique institutions. The cafe downstairs is also wonderful and on a cold winter day, nothing quite beats buying a book and then heading for a coffee downstairs. Truth be…
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It isn’t the best, but it is convenient
OK, as I mentioned to Katherine, it ain’t the best place, but if you’ve got screaming kids and it isn’t crowded (nearly never) it isn’t too bad. After all, it is hard to ruin noodles, although truthfully, they do overcook them. I’ll have to give China Village a try. Or go to Blue C Sushi…
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Sun Peaks (Redux)
Tong Family Blog: Sun Peaks Archives. Well we are here again at Sun Peaks and two years later, there are still no real reviews of restaurants. Heard that the steakhouse is busy and slow, but to recap the ones that are still open as listed in the official “Sun Peaks”:http://www.sunpeaksresort.com/winter/restaurants.aspx website which doesn’t seem quite…
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Learning Chinese
Iv’e ordered a bunch of Chinese language programs and texts. Wow, things have gotten wayt better than the old days of just learning from a book. Here are some of the tools and an early review: * Rosetta Stone. This is the most expensive package at $300+ for Level 1 and 2. The program is…
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Do you need an agent, it depends
First off, we’ve always used an agent for a pretty simple reason, most of the time when we’ve been buying, it has been into neighborhoods we haven’t known that well. While 3% off the top can seem like a lot, if you have a good agent, you can at least know how you are doing…
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Great place and great eggs
It’s a little out of the way, but an institution on Madrona. I’m surprised I can’t find it with Judy’s Book, but here it is on A9 Maps http://maps.a9.com/?mpref=1&mscl=5500,55000&mimg=914aadcf0ce6fffe,1&mstr=34th%20Ave&ypLoc=1000%20Boren%20Ave%2C%20Seattle%2C%20WA%2098104&mll=47.61289954238346,-122.28932241455185,47.60773871693669,-122.29697353730622,47.613178419414425,-122.28932241455185 and here it is with google local http://www.google.com/local?hl=en&hs=fHz&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=hi-spot+cafe&near=Seattle,+WA&sa=X&oi=locald&radius=0.0&latlng=47606389,-122330833,5377379225633446724 An awesome spot, no pun intended, the eggs are particularly good. Try the baked eggs and the cinnamon…
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They rival $1,000 speakers
Well, on the going deaf part, I think the main thing is don’t turn your iPod up to deafening levels. Seriously, its really about not blasting them. The easiest way to do this is to watch and make sure you don’t turn it up too high *and* to get headphones that deaden the sound. Etymotic…
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Washington State Elementary Chess Tournament
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Qiming Ventures
It’s been cooking for a while, but “Qiming Ventures”:http://www.qimingventures.com is the head geek’s latest revenge of the nerds. I’ve had a terrific change to meet wonderful folks in China. Duane, Edward and Gary are the best. We are in the middle of setting it up, but basically, we are raising $200M to invest in new…
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Judy’s Book
Hey my friends Andy and Chris over at “Judy’s Book”:http://judysbook.com have been hard at work. A good example of how web companies can now do a facelift without changing their whole database. Its a site that’s all about local search and reviews. I’ve got 160 reviews over there :”)
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Judy’s book blog FAQ for MovableType
OK, just a few notes on this for folks who are doing it. First, if you have MovableType 3.2, they added this strange thing called API Password mainly because of spam attacks, so make sure to fill it in with something reasonable as it is a random number generator. Judysbook code that goes to MovableType…
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Judy’s Book and w.bloggar Invalid Login
Movable Type Knowledge Base: Invalid Login with Third Party Clients. Hey I am now using Judy’s Book for doing all reviews. So I needed to use the so called third party client API. Beware, that if you moved to MovableType 3.2, there is now a new parameter called the API Password which is used for…
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Stop 0x00000024 and no Running Apps in the Toolbar
Well, I seem to have a growing list of Windows problems that makes me want to reinstall, but just to list: # First, one machine just blue screen with a Stop 0x00000024. This is an error in ntfs.sys. Sounds like I’d better check the file system. A search reveals that this could be a virus,…
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Ski Goggles
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Ski Trip Packing
SKI Magazine ~ How to Pack Like a Pro. A great piece about packing like a pro. There is a guy named Doug Dyment from “onebag.com”:http://onebag.com who is the expert. His main points are that you can rent great skis, but you want to carry your boots. Also that your boots count as one carry-on,…
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Textile 2.0 Manual
Textile It’s hard to find this manual. It is not on the original textile site, but Brad has good documentation. I’ve found this to be a super useful HTML shorthand. MovableType and WordPress both have filters for it.
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Pendragon series
Pendragon – Journal of an Adventure Through Time and Space / Official Website / D.J. MacHale. Another worthy kids series along with the Artemis Fowl collection which this reminds me of quite a bit because it features smart kids as opposed to not very bright ones. Ones with a sense of humor. I just love…
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Chess.fm
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Backup up CDs
If you have a valuable CD, you might want a way to back it up. We just paid $300 !!! for a program and there is no backup strategy. Here is what you have to do: # Copy Protected Games – THE DAEMONS HOME. Determine what the copy protection is exactly with A-Ray scanner. You…
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South Beauty
!>http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/images/food/southBeauty.jpg! Restaurant Reviews :: Shanghai Expat :: Living and Working in Shanghai. This is one of those restaurants where the translation really doesn’t come through. But, see “Qiaojiangnan.com”:http://qiaojiangnan.com for a list of restaurants in this sichuan chain. We’ve only been to the Shanghai one at the Superbrands mall. It has just an awesome view of…
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M on the Bund
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Jade on 36
!>http://www.shangri-la.com/projects/uploadedImages/Hotels/Shanghai/Pudong_Shangri-La/en/Restaurants_&_Bars/pic_slpu_rest_jade.jpg! Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai Jade on 36. Oh my goodness, thanks to Gary and Yucca, we’ve been astonished by the quality and excitment of dining in Shanghai. Jade is in the brand new tower of the Shangri-La (itself one of the top hotels in Shanghai and it competes with the Grand Hyatt for being the…