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Bookends, Lanikai Juice and Morning Brew in Kailua
BookEnds | Store/Shop Review | Oahu | Frommers.com. If you are on this end of the island, stop here. They are one of those great bookstores like “Bailey Coy”:http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10773009/ in Seattle that seems to select just the best books. In this case, Bookends is particularly good at children books. Also a good used selection for…
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Cool Sayings
Heard on the street… Imagine a kid climbing up a steep hill towards a water slide that you ride head down (no it is not dangerous, you use a map and there is a bumper in the front). And as Dad fills the air with advice, little guy says, “Hey Dad, can you just let…
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DVD Media
X-bit labs – Articles – Ultimate Testing of Recordable DVD Media Discs (page 24). It ain’t of question of just buying the cheapest DVD writeable or of buying the most expensive. Here’s an indepth review that shows some good brands and OEMs to buy. Realy complex to summarize, but stuff that is OEMed from Ricoh…
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Creation
!>http://www.princess-kaiulani.com/upload/de-creation2.jpg! Sheraton Princess Kaiulani | Creation – A Polynesian Journey. We did this tonight. A couple of lessons. First and most important… *Don’t go to Waikiki from Kailua on a Friday night!* It took 1 1/2 hours to get there with most of the trip very fast until we hit Honolulu. The traffic jam would…
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Hawaiian Waves Adventure Park
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Apple falls 10%
Apple Stock Sinks Despite Robust Profits. A good example of buying after the rush. Despite higher earnings, it is going to be hard for Apple to match the PE. It hit a high of $45 and is now at $36. Another reminder the key to making money is finding things that no one else knows…
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Zia's Caffe
RealEats – User Restaurant Reviews for Zia’s, Kailua, Hawaii. Good family restaurant. Get there early since they don’t take reservations. The Chocolate Overload is good, but I like the pasta particularly the linguine. There’s aren’t any great reviews for Hawaii that I could find. “Pubcrawler”:http://www.pubcrawler.com/Template/dsp_restaurant_zoom.cfm/flat/ID=414251 just had the basics yellow page information for instance. “Kailua…
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Dream Cruises
!>http://cms.dream-cruises.com/media/images/site/DreamCruises/WhaleWatch/whale_breach_left01.jpg! Dream Cruises – Hawaii Fun Cruises. The kids have already seen grey whales, but not Connie, this is a quick cruise out of Waikiki, by Fishersman’s Wharf for an hour and a half. Not too expesnive and fun. Personally i’d rather be on a sailing cat, but what the heck đ
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Boogie Boarding
Actually, the technical term is body boarding, since Boogie Board is a trademark. In any case, Amy asked, are there lessons on how to boogie. Of course there are… How to Bodyboard and Bodyboard Tips Videos. Here are some videos online that explain it. “eHow.com”:http://www.ehow.com/how_5293_bodyboard.html has many more basics. the main one is that you…
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Luau
It’s campy and wierd, but the kids really do love the luau’s and I have to admit, after the really bad food, Dad does too. Here’s the best on Oahu: “Germaine’s Luau”:http://www.germainesluau.com. This is the first luau we ever did. It is pure tourist and you can get good discounts so it is about $50…
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Kayaking Kailua
For a great day, check out Kailua Sailboards + Kayaks Inc – Watersports Center Hawaii. !
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Day out to Waimea
First, you visit the head up the Kamehameha Highway and visit the spot where the 1946 tsunami punched a hole in a rock. Awesome power and an amazing spot. It is just across from the Polynesian Cultural Center. Then, Waimea Valley “Audubon”:http://www.audubon.org/local/sanctuary/Brochures/Waimea.html “Center”:http://oahu.aloha-hawaii.com/tours/waimea+valley,+oahu/. Its a cool spot where you walk up half a mile to…
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Hawaii Recycling
Curbside Recycling on Oahu. !
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Valley of the Temples
Travel Guide – Valley of the Temples – Hawaii – United States of America!
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Sid Meiers' Pirates!
Sid Meier’s Pirates! Fansite – Addicted to Pirates! – http://www.addictedtopirates.com. I too am addicted to this game. Its fun and pretty easy. A good fan site. Here’s a good “walkthrough”:http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/game/915017.html.
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Brother in Arms
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Filezilla
FileZilla Homepage – Index. I’ve been using SmartFTP, but “John”:http://www.theludwigs.com says that this is better plus it is open source too.
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ANTEC Phantom
Antec Phantom 350: Super-efficient Fanless PSU :: SilentPCReview.com. Pretty amazing, this is a power supply without any fan at all. It cools passively and delivers 350 watts, so good if you don’t have too power hungry a system and really want the ultimate in quiet.
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Yagoohoogle Firefox Plugin
phil ringnalda dot com: You got your.. eh, that’s overused. Now there is a Firefox plugin that call yagoohoogle. Kind of funny to see the search engines side-by-side.
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R2D2 vs. t2B
!>http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/1016893924623325.JPG?0.8786707252578194! R2-D2 versus the Scion t2B – Autoblog – www.autoblog.com _. _Who would have every thought you’d get car names like t2B. This is the next generation xB (which is of course the US version of the Japanese bB. Confused yet?_ Most interesting factoid. R2-D2 stands for “Reel two, Dialogue two” something George Lucas took…
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MP3 Editing Tools
Now that we are podcasting galore at “Geekfishing”:http://geekfishing.net with the iRiver iFP-795 and the Sound Professionals stereo cardiod lapel microphones, the next step is to do some editing of MP3s. There are lots of tools out there, but “Snapfiles”:http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwaudioedit.html recommends some of these: * Audacity. This is a freeware editor, it edits in WAV format…
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Budget Sempron 3100+ Palermo
X-bit labs – Articles – Another Gift to Overclockers: AMD Sempron 3100+ on E Core Revision (page 11). For budget folks a good choice is the new Sempron 3100+. Like the Venice core, this uses the Palermo core or the E revision. It overclocks to 2.7GHz and is as fast as the big boys. The…
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Chaintech VNF3-250 and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro incompatibility
Tong Family Blog: Installing a new Windows PC. I’ve had a terrible stability problem with Calvin’s machine. The issues are that when I would restart the system, one of the IDE drives (Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB) wouldn’t get recognized and I’d have to wait 10 minutes before starting the machine. Also, when I plugged in…
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AMD Athlon 64 Venice Arrives
!>http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/athlon64-venice/icon.gif! X-bit labs – Articles – AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU: E3 Processor Core aka Venice at the Door. _The new Venice chips are now shipping, these are formally called the AMD Athlon 64 3500+ and 3800+ with E3 stepping, now that is a mouthful the short word, is that they are worth the wait…
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Athlon 64 DEP and Skype
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Outlook need DEP off
_Thank goodness for the Internet. I couldn’t get Spambayes to work properly. Amazingly, someone found exactly the same problem. I had turned on DEP since I have one machine that is an Athlon 64 and this prevents data execution errors. I’m gathering that Spambayes is probably a bad self-modifying code program or more likely python…
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Seasonic S12-430
Seasonic S12-430: Beyond the Super Tornado :: SilentPCReview.com. Seasonic’s Super Tornados are great, but they are being superceded by a slightly quieter Seasonic S12 series. The Super Tornados are running down on stock and are quite a bit cheaper right now $91 at Newegg for the 400 watt SS-400HT while $102 for the 430 watt…
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Sony VAIO T-140PL W22N51.SYS Crash
WiFi-Forum – Blue screen with Centrino 2200BG wireless card when TKIP is enabled. Well, maybe TKIP is the problem, but under high load, the Centrino 2200BG driver crashes on my Sony VAIO. Only happens when really pushing the driver. I’m not sure it is reproducible, so I’m going to get the latest updated driver. I…
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April 7 Deadline for Washington State Elementary Chess
2005 Washington State Elementary Chess Championships. Yikes, this web site is really hard to find, but you need to register by April 7 for the state chess tournament so go, go, go! !>http://www.chessenrichment.org/Images/image002.gif! They only had a open registration window of a month (March 3 to April 7, so no surprise that you might miss…
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Thermaltake Big Typhoon
Overclocker Cafe – Thermaltake Big Typhoon Cooler Review !>http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/cooling/Tt_Big_Typhoon/pics/200.jpg! Another massive cooling fan, much cheaper than the XP-120 and separate 5″ fan. Very quiet too and just $50.