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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…
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Handy Currency Converter
Universal Currency Converter(tm) I was on an Australian site looking at Panel PCs and was reminded that most folks don’t know about this great currency converter.
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Blog Spam
HOw depressing, the spammers have figured out how to spam a blog. That’s why I’m getting a dozen comments a day from folks who sell viagra and then use the backlink feature to link me to their site. Sad, I’m going to have to turn off comments pretty soon as I can’t keep up with…
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Great places in London
Thanks to “Adrian”:http://smithstuff.net, I have at least a few places in London that make life easier for the frugal business guy. A little accidental tourist, but here are some places: * “Hilton Green Park”:http://www.londontown.com/LondonHotel/Hilton/Hilton_Green_Park. This is a small hotel near the center of London. Not a mega hotel, but 18 townhouses remodelled together to be…
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Skype and NAT tunnelling
_A discussion of Voice-over-IP and a good explanation of why folks needs something that penetrates firewalls_ Skype Firewall and NAT (Network Address Translation) traversal: Non-firewalled clients and clients on publicly routable IP addresses are able to help NAT’ed nodes to communicate by routing calls. This allows two clients who otherwise would not be able to…
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Windworks is Great!
Windworks Sailing Center. Connie and I just did the second round of classes on sailing over there. They have a really great series called “Adventure”:http://www.windworkssailing.com/adventure_lessons.htm Lessons where you don’t have to sit a class room and have the instructor say, please say “PORT” class, and you say, “PORT”. Instead, you read the book at home…
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Another Senseless Death…
Ken Kifer’s Bike Pages — bicycle travelogues, bike safety, bicycling advocacy, and cycling humor.. Sad to say, Ken got hit by a drunk driver while biking at home. An eclectic guy, sad to see. A great site he has/had.
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Arrgghh. Ensim to Cpanel
Arrgghh. Mark over at “TQHosting”:http://tqhosting.com has switched from ensim as the control panel for shared sites to cpanel. Have to say cpanel is incredibly powerful, but now ever path name has changed. Mark was nice enough to run scripts to flip over nearly everything, but gallery, so now I’m reinstalling that. Need to remember how…
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Getting Visioneer 7600 to work…arrghh
I’ve been trying to get our old Visioneer 7600 to work and have lost the CD. Thank goodness for “dll-files.com”:http://dll-files.com or “downloadthis.com”:http://www.downloadthis.net/dllfiles.html they actually have all these random DLLS that various folks spill everywhere. The required files that are needed are: * maxkrnl.dll * www.dll-files.com – download maxcodec.dll is a good example. Used by PaperPort…
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Peer to peer voip
Hey Ludwig, here’s the next big thing, it’s a peer to peer voip service. Give it a try! Skype is moving like wildfire through my family and friends. Wow. Easier than e-mail and chat (now that they are garbaged up with features). [John Robb’s Weblog] Listening to Landslide by Dixie Chicks from Home (03:50)
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Firewalls won't work…
Good notes from Ray Ozzie about the problem with firewalls. Folks in homes and in business are going to discover this soon. Basically, you have to armor every PC since if you have one infected one, then someone VPNs in and the whole network is poluuted. My buddy, Jon Lazarus, has a good explanation. The…
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Security Appliance Market Statistics
Sales of security server appliances grew 10 percent year-over-year, as companies turned to low-end appliance servers dedicated to firewalls and virtual private networks, IDC says. [CNet News.com]