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Movable Type Anti-spam
MT-Blacklist – A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin. Spam is completely out of control on comments now. But, help is on the way thanks for Jay Allen. Installing it now and it seems to work pretty well, although the regex database misses things of course. I’m going to also look for something that does a comment…
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Docsis 2.0
EE Times – DOCSIS 2.0: Upping Upstream Performance in Cable Modem Designs
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xDSL.com : Deployment and Projections
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HDTV in Seattle
Seattle HDTV News. Well, Jeremy seems to have the best site for Seattle specific information about High definition TV. Here’s the current scoop as covered in the “Seattle PI”:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/143274_hdtv10.html. To see what shows are actually on, “HDTV Galaxy”:http://www.hdtvgalaxy.com/broad.html seems like it is the most comprehensive, although you need to use KCTS’s own “schedule”:http://www.kcts.org/tvschedule/dtv.asp for specific…
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Evening Bags
Connie wants a “clutch” (no dummy no the car kind, the purse kind). Amazing how hard it is to shop on the Internet for clothes. I tried froogle.com, bizrate.com, etc. “Ebags”:http://ebags.com seems to have the most selection. Interesting there isn’t a service that directs you even after a bunch of google searches. I finally settled…
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Hunting for an MDX
Auto Consultants Northwest. Been hunting for an MDX. It is cool to be able to call lots of dealers around the country. Basically, if there is one in stock, you can get say a $1K discount maximum, otherwise, if you are lucky, you pay the list price. I also need to trade in a car…
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Fry's Another Place to buy
Outpost.com. One site not indexed by pricegrabber is the Fry’s site. They currently have the Western Digital WD2000JB, last quarters performance winner on sale for $120 net of a $70 rebate. Wow, that’s an incredible price.
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Athlon 64 vs. pentium 4
Athlon 64 3200 Review — Forgotten CPU? – Amdmb.com. The Athlon 64 3200 basically is one fast machine. In this review, it was about 15% faster than a Pentium 3.2 GHz and 20% faster than an Athlon XP 3200+ in gaming. And, 25% faster than the Athlon XP 3200+ On synthetic benchmarks, the Pentium is…
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Decoding Shuttle Product line
a little ludwig goes a long way: Rich’s PC buying guide. No problem helping you figure out the Shuttle product line. I agree, it is incredibly confusing what to buy. Turns out they encode most of the important information into the product name (like most geeks), so you can figure it out if you understand…
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PC Buying Guide for Fall 2004
Well, it had to happen, folks are asking me what to buy for this fall season. Here are recommendations by category (assuming you are building up your own box). Here’s a summary: h4. For Power Users The Athlon 64 3200+ in a Shuttle SN85G4 barebones system with ATI Radeon 9600 XT or nVidia FX 5700…
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BIOS Optimization
Adrian’s Rojak Pot Bios Optimization Guide. I’ve never understood all the BIOS settings. Here’s a guide to the over 200 different things you can now tune in your PC. Wow.
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San Diego Fire
October Fire Scripps Ranch San Diego, CA Photos. An incredible fire. Here are some images from Scripps Ranch that I found incredible given I’ve been so close to neighborhoods like this while visiting San Diego.
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Amazon Ego-Surfing
Joi Ito’s Web: Ego-surfing on Amazon search inside the book. Joi Ito points out that you can now “ego-surf” on Amazon so you can see your name in books. They have indexed 120,000 books. So, I could resist. Here are searches for “Rich Tong”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=stripbooks&field-keywords=%22rich%20tong%22&search-type=ss&bq=1/102-7967833-8380932 at Amazon. Actually came up with three hits that I didn’t…
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Lake Arrowhead coverage
Joi Ito’s Web: Joseph Urbaszewski’s blog coverage Lake Arrowhead fire. BTW, a hat tip to Joi Ito for keeping track. There is also a scanner feed so you can hear fireman live. Wow.
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Blogs are where the news live…
Joseph Urbaszewski’s Weblog. We were talking about this at “work”:http://ignitionpartners.com today. Ib et folks that the best place to find news about the California fires would be on blogs. Joesphe is proving me right. How much more interesting than CNN!
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Haiku for Windows
_Hat tip for “Zagula”:http://zagula.com on this one_ In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They’re used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan: The Web site you seek Cannot…
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Titanium Break-Away just a concept
Five components that caught Andrew’s attention. It’s sad that one of the top five things that caught Velonews interest is just a concept. I asked Johannes over at Ritchey Logic (a great guy btw, answers email very quickly and is approachable in the extreme) and here is what he said. Sad to me they had…
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Passion is a Competitive Advantage
a little ludwig goes a long way: Rebecca always has good inspirational thoughts.. Rebecca Schwoch as noted by John seems to clip some great thoughts. His two favorite and mine, “no decision is a decision” and “passion is a competitive advantage.” Boy, am I living that right now in my current role as an investor…
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Nikon N80 — Film Reviews (After 5 months)
Nikon N80 body review (F80 outside of US). I’ve had this Nikon N80 for about five months. A good time to give it a review. First of all, I’ll move to digital eventually folks, but I have to say that it is kind of nice to have such an inexpensive high quality camera in 35mm.…
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Cruises
Windstar Cruises. My brother was asking about cruises. I told him we’d not been on many, but had research it quite a bit (before the age of blogs). We really recommend the Windstar cruises. The Tahiti trip is amazing. The ship is just 400 feet long, all the cabins are the same and it is…
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Supergo coming to Seattle
Mountain Bikes,Bicycle Parts, & Accessories from Supergo Bike Shops. Supergo is a discount bicycle store down in California. They are going to open up a store here in Seattle. Don’t know where yet, but nice to know folks like coming up here!
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Who Was Deep Throat?
Deep Throat: Uncovered | Department of Journalism | University of Illinois. In the days of covers being blown and senior white house officials saying this or that about CIA officers, its kind of interesting to ask, who was the Deep Throat of Watergate fame. Here’s a website all about it. I believe it!
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USB and Empower Airplane Chargers
_Learned this from the Boingo mailing_ You can buy USB chargers now. Some laptops actually let you push from a USB connector and charge the battery if you can believe that, so you don’t need your brick. See Advanced Accessories for Mobile Electronics (Cell Phones and PDAs) for some connectors for cell phones and PDAs.…
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Cool Cell Phones
Been spending a bunch of time in Europe lately, so it has been fun to compare the different cell phones in the US and here. Here’s quick scoop on cool ones: * a little ludwig goes a long way: My new phone — Siemens SL56. This has been in Europe for a while. An amazingly…
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Ultra-lightweight Cyclocross
InterBike: Five of my favorite bikes _Another amazing find at InterBike, a 16 pound cyclocross bike!_ Moots PsychloX-SL Even though it is a cyclo-cross bike, at under 16 pounds the PsychloX-SL may be the lightest bike in the Moots booth! The clean and elegant frame is welded out of Reynolds 6Al/4V butted titanium tubing. The…
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Bike Lust: Titanium Ritchey Break-Away
Five components that caught Andrew’s attention _Here’s #5 that caught Velonew’s attention at Interbike 2003. Man what I wouldn’t give to have a Titanium Ritchey Break-Away with Dura-Ace 10 components and have it weigh 17 pounds_ 5. Ritchey BreakAway Ritchey’s new foldable BreakAway bikes are full size, standard geometry steel road bicycles with 700c wheels,…
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Incredible Traffic
Site Meter – Counter and Statistics Tracker. I can’t quite believe it. I think the statistics must be wrong. In any case, I use Sitemeter to record page views and visits and have some history there. In July, I changed Sitemeter to record all hits across all pages of my blog. Here are the statistics:…
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A weekend in LA
Spent a great weekend in LA escorting Connie to her class reunion. Here were some sites and things to do: * Universal Studios Hollywood movie theme park Los Angeles L.A. CA. Hadn’t been to Universal Studios in a long time. Say 20 years. Man, how has it changed. I highly recommend the VIP tour. It…
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Intense Spider XVP Desire
Johnny Vanderlinden 20Lb. Spider. Well, Brad and I both agree the Intense Spider XVP is the bicycle to lust after. HEre is a one that is just twenty pounds. The frames are super hard to get. List for $1950 and Brad says they are backordered 3,000 frames. All handmade in California. The Santa Cruz Blur…
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International Calling to the US
OK, I just went to the UK and Germany and realized that even with a wonderful world phone, it is very expensive to call given the roaming charges. Here are the ways around that: * CogniCall Long Distance Calling Card. This is an international long distance calling card. Nice thing is that it is billed…