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Campagnolo and FSA Compact
Groupsets – The official Campagnolo web site – Bicycle Parts and Components Cycling. _I really should just replace my bottom bracket with an integrated FSA system, but in lieu of that, there’s always the compact update from Campy. BTW, compact basically means you don’t need a triple, it is easier for old guys like us_…
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Rechargeable Batteries
Thomas-Distributing – Rechargeable Battery Supply, Chargers for Rechargeable Batteries, Digital Camera Batteries, Lithium Batteries And Testers. _A bump on the topic, my two year old NiMh batteries are finally showing their age. Used to get 2 hours of life, now just an hour. Time for an upgrade. Things have moved quickly with this stuff. Two…
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eBags Messenger
eBags Lightning Messenger – eBags. eBags has their knockoff messenger bag for $30 with free shipping, so tempting for all of us bargain hunters. I don’t think it is waterproof though like the high end Timbuk2 or Chrome bags.
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Timbuk2
Timbuk2 — Messenger Bags. Since we are on the topic, I’ve used dozens of bags and none quite compares in comfort to a bike messenger bag. I use a small one from Nike just about every day. It is just so much more comfortable than carry to have it go over one shoulder. Timbuk2 even…
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iPod Case Reviews
Playlist Cases. Another review of cases. I like their format at a glance. They give five stars to these cases (all have a belt clip important for Dad and me): * Contour Showcase. $40. Rubber and clear plastic. * Covertec iPod Case, $40. This has a leather cover so not that greaet for instant access…
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Waterfield
“Waterfield”:http://sfbags.com are ex-bike messengers and make custom bags in San Francisco. Expensive, but checkout the Sleevecase which is a totally custom holder for a laptop. Perfect for my minute Sony TR-140 for which common laptop bags are just too big. !>http://www.sfbags.com/products/sleevecases/images/prod_sleevecase_detail_2.jpg! to see how well made they are. Rather have one good bag than a…
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iPod Mini or tweener
Good review of the iPod Mini, as they say, with iPod Shuffles at $99 and $149, and the 20GB iPod at $299, the niche between them is pretty small. The 2G iPod Mini is the one to hold out for although the main diffference is “decent” battery life (double the nominal 8 hours). iPodlounge Review:…
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Pacific Rim Cube
!>http://www.ipodlounge.com/assets/images/reviews_pacrim/cube/cube1.jpg! iPodlounge Review: Pacific Rim Cube Travel Speakers On the spectrum of iPod-specific speaker options we’ve previously identified, the Cube Travel Speakers generally fit into the ultra-portable category. They’re pocketable – on baggy pants, at least – with the option of using batteries or AC power from an optional power supply ($5.00) if you so…
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JBL On Tour
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eBooks Checkout
_A brilliant idea, copy-protected digital library, just need a King County Library card and you can checkout lots of books_ King County Library System – Digital Books – Home King County Library System is proud to announce the full integration of hundreds of downloadable digital audio books to this collection for your enjoyment. Browse or…
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Athlon 64 overclocking tools
Some I’ve heard of, others I haven’t… ABXZone.com Forums – A64 overclocking tools. There are several utilities that make it much easier to overclock and tweak an A64 system. “Clockgen”:http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php – Allows you to change HTT (FSB), CPU multiplier and AGP/PCIe frequency in Windows. This works but you can crash your system very easily. “A64…
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Appliances, etc.
VC Mom.com: Home appliance etc. chat forums. Hat tip to Michelle, a great site on questions and information on not just gardening, but kitchens and everything else.
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Exact Audio Copy and Taiwanese CDs
_My Dad had a bunch of CDs from Taiwan he wanted to rip to his iPod. What a mess figuring out how to do this. Essentially, we are back in the days of code pages. The CDs don’t store unicode (unicode was invented after CDs), so you have to know how to set the code…
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iPod Cases
My dad loves his iPod 20GB 4G so much he uses it all the time, now he just wants a case that won’t blow out the bank. Here are some choices: * iPodlounge Review: Vaja i-Volution 4G with Wheel Protector, It’s leather and beautiful but cost $60! Great to go with a nice briefcase 🙂…
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Just a Ride
_As the kids use the iPod, its interesting to see musical tastes evolve, here mine and Alex’s intersect perfectly with JEM’s Just a ride_ Jem Reviews on Yahoo! Music Finally Woken, Jem’s full-length debut, fleshes out the It All Starts Here EP with six additional tracks. It features the addicting title track, the one that…
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MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities
a-giâu: MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities. Very clever, this plug-in blogs HTML that uses numerics to disguise spam. Pretty smart. Another thing to load and also once again proves the value of having a platform on the open internet.
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Anti-Spam Plugins
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse: New anti-spam plugins. Jay Allen notes that there are some great additional tools besides MT-Blacklist. Ones I have to load right away are: * “MT-Moderate”:http://jayseae.cxliv.org/moderate/. This moderates all trackbacks. I really need this. With this, I can turn TrackBacks back on!
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JBL Onstage breaks
JBL – Home Audio. I think I’m one of the unlucky ones. If you have an Onstage speaker system from JBL, then the thing either breaks or volume gets stuck. For me, it just doesn’t work. What happens is that there is a chip gets zapped. The conditions are: a) you have both the on…
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Flexible Date Travel
Flexible Dates. Here is Dad’s tool for flexible travel. YOu just select the length of stay to say San Francisco and then it shows you want the cheapest dates are. Pretty neat. The current lowest fare to San Jose for instance is $144 roundtrip! “Europe Travel”:http://www.expedia.com/daily/vacations/europe/flights-cars.asp?rfrr=-33044. These are their special fares from Seattle to London.…
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Airfares
It has gotten incredibly complicated (vs. easier) to find the lowest fares. The days of just typing into Expedia are over. Here’s how we do it and ironically, we ended up on Expedia but who knows: * “Expedia”:http://expedia.com. This is the place to start for vacation travel mainly because they let you choose each leg…
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Great Books
Alex has just been reading up a storm. Here are some of his quick reviews of good books to read. He’s been tending towards fantasy and dragons and I have to say these are terrific if not already widely read, here are his most recently read with reviews: * “Artemis Fowl”:http://www.artemisfowl.com/. Actually this should be…
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The Sims
TheSims2.com – Home. finally a modern game that Grace can love. This lets you basically play “dress up” on the computer. You can give clothes to a family, plan a picnic, etc. The neatest thing is that The Sims plugs into Sim City, so that they can live in a town. As Connie says soon,…
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Via Luke
mini-itx.com – news – VIA launches “Luke” Platform VIA today launched their “Luke” Corefusion Processing Platform at the Embedded Systems Conference 2005 in San Francisco, California. Luke combines both an EdenT-N CPU and CN400 Northbridge into one convenient aluminium package, reducing board real estate beyond Nano-ITX dimensions. This thing would make a great PC Mini.…
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AMD Venice and San Diego next month
X-bit labs – Hardware news – Venice and San Diego Already around the Corner. The first announcement stated that the current D0 revision will be replaced with the new E3 revision for the following CPUs that are the transition from Newcastle -> Venice that will start shipping April 4: * Athlon 64 3000+ (ADA3000BIBOX) ->…
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Lance out Paris-Nice
ThePaceline.com – Lance News Item Following the conclusion of today’s third stage of Paris-Nice, Johan Bruyneel, the sports manager of the Discovery Channel pro cycling team, announced that Lance Armstrong will not start Thursday’s fourth stage of the race. “Lance woke up this morning with a sore throat and with the cold weather, he began…
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Machine Check
STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x00000000, 0xb2000000, 0x00020151) …. Once I turned off automatic reboot, this is the error I got on the DFI GME855-MGF. What it means in short is that the Pentium processor threw a specific exception (Machine Check Exception) meaning that it detected there was an internal CPU-specific error. The most frequent reason is…
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Summer Camps
There are as many camps as there are kids. Right now, I’d say that you are just missing the summer camp season. The main resource for this is the annual open house at St. Thomas. Was last month though. _You can also find this post at https://richtong.org_ Connie’s approach to this BTW is pretty cool.…
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School Survey
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DFI 855GME NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS
OK, Jennie installed iTunes and the next thing I know, I start getting a strange stop code, the machine just blue screens and then on every subsequent restart has the same problem called the NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS Stop 0x00000035. Lots of digging to figure out why, the long and short of it is that I can boot…
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Sim City 4 fixed
SimCity™ 4 – SimCity.com. Finally got this to work on an ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard by vI had the same problem. It was the nVidia sound driver. Loading the latest driver (the 5.10 unified) helped but still crashed every hour or so vs. every five minutes. Finally solved by going to the Realtek.com.tw site and downloading…