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Samsung Electronics
SAMSUNG’s Digital World – IR FAQs. Amazingly Samsung is not listed in any US stock exchanges, so you either have to buy it in the Korean market or go to London for the GDR. The symbols are hard to find on Yahoo Finance at least. They are 005930 on the Seoul exchange and SMSN in…
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TEN is a perfect TEN
Tong Family Blog: Perfect in car adapter. So I got this adapter for our cars and I have to say although you get it from Apple, so it is expensive, it is really the perfect adapter. The only trick is that there is a tiny switch at the bottom which you set to low volume…
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Mpire Researcher
Mpire Researcher Presents: All Eyes on iPods. My buddy Dave, Matt and Greg are working hard over there. If you want to buy a used iPod, there is no better source. They are tracking sales on ebay and it gives you a great sense of the used market. It’s free and easy and I’m so…
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Blackberry 8700 and 7130e
BlackBerryToday: Reviews. Hardware-wise, Blackberry has two interesting models that are just out. There is the Blackberry 8700 which is the palm-sized unit. Only available from Cingular right now, but it has EDGE support so networks are faster and it is quad-band as well so it can go anywhere in the world. It is a little…
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Blackberry Apps
I haven’t putzed with our various Blackberry’s in a while, but here are some cool utilities: * IM for AOL, MSN and Yahoo. This comes from your carrier, but it is an Oz application that let’s you get IM from these sources. Depressing part is that it only allows you to login to *one* of…
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Ski Forums
Consumer Gear Reviews – The Barking Bear Forums. Fun to read what others are finding about various skis. Good active forum.
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Skiing Magazine on Powder Skis
Skiing Magazine and its sister Ski Magazine make it super hard to find things. They have a slow site and the indexing of data is strange. So here is a more convenient index for those looking for powder skis. What Skiiing calls Big Mountain Experts: * K2 Seth Pistol. 179cm, 128/95/118, $750, Speed 3.95, Off-Piste…
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Perler Beads
!http://www.perlerbeads.com/perlergraphics/openstockrotating.gif! Perler Beads Home Page. These are terrific little crafts. The kids have loved them since they were tiny. You make a pattern with these little plastic things and then you iron it all together. Great for creative kids!
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Shanghai Community International School Calendar
Shanghai Community International Schools. Their calendar is just a little different from the US one. The main things are the big October holiday instead of a Thanksgiving one. Also they have a February Chinese New Years that coincides with mid-winter break in Seattle. And there is a week long May holiday instead of the April…
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Spring Skiing
Mt. Baker Ski Area 2005-06 season. With a 200 inch base, Mt. Baker is a good choice. Actually most places should be good for spring skiing. Crystal will stay open through March. There are bunch of good places to stay that are quite reasonable for an overnight. Say leave on Sunday, ski in the afternoon,…
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Lexus Luxury GS 450h
Toyota/Lexus/Scion Pressroom: Lexus Announces Pricing on GS 450h Luxury Gas/Electric Hybrid Sport Sedan. Well, Toyota continues to march ahead, there is both a 2007 Camry Hybrid coming out (get it through Costco!)
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Washington State Elementary Chess Championships 2006
WA State Elementary Chess Championships. Registration is now up for the state tournament. Sign up now. It is getting close to April. A nice site, you get online registration and also you can check the registration list at “Signup4chess”:http://signup4chess.com/wa/Registered.asp to see if you and your friends are there.
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End of Season Skis
SKI Magazine ~ Gear: Have It All. It’s been an awesome ski season, so now folks have skis on sale. If you want a set now is the time to get them for 50% off. Some choices for those of us who love powder and are thinking with a midfat (like the K2 Apache Recon…
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xB Release 3.0
SCION Release Series 3.0. OK, these are limited edition at $17K or so, but they have a bright green color, DVD player and headrest monitors. Pretty cool. Only 2200 will be made, so collector editions :-0
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Camry Hybrid 2007
2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid Full Specs!. The full specs are here. Folks expect it to be about $3-4000 more than an XLE. Nice specs too. A good option for folks who want a somewhat bigger car than the Prius.
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United Double Miles
MP Registration: Anniversary Double Miles Offer. Register here and then buy your miles on united.com with a code MPD006 and you get double miles through March 31 on your first 12,500 miles. Pay attention “John”:http://www.zagula.com.
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iPod Cases in Use
OK, I’ve ordered a bunch of these cases, so here are some real world uses and how they fare at least with me. For the record, I’ve tried a few cases and covers on an IpOd Photo, iPod nano and an iPod Video. The idea is to have as clear a case as possible that…
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Medos Vodka
“Medos”:http://www.montanavoice.com/medos/getmedos.htm is another love of Johnza’s is vodka. Here is one via Europe that you can only get from a Montana distributor It is hard to find, but “froogle”:http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=medos+vodka says that Internet Wine “Store”:http://store.yahoo.com/randalls/rws31720.html has it.
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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…