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A Better Day and Rumsfeld
Had lots of questions last night. Amazingly starting in the AM, they got answered. Main depressing thing is confirmation about the war planning overoptimism by Rumsfeld and other civilians, ignoring of advice and general meddling in lots of things. Ugh. Bureaucrats get people killed. Echoes of the Vietnam War. Depressing fact is that the 4th…
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Best LCD Monitors
Tom’s Hardware Guide Displays: LCD 17: Samsung 171N & NEC LCD1760V vs. Everyone Else – NEC LCD1760V (and 1760NX). Finally something other than the war. The battle of the 17″ LCD monitors is happening. Here’s the best according to Tom’s Hardware. The incredibly well anmed NEC LCD 1760V. Hey do these guys learn naming from…
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News Lockdown: Where is the 4th and 82nd
The AgonistFlash XLIX. He’s wondering where the 4th Infantry Division is and the 82nd. I thought a bunch of the 82nd Airborne is in Afghanistan and the 4th is in the US while their equipment makes it way around the Suez Canal. Points out there is a lockdown of information right now.
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Questions
Since there are so many great bloggers covering the news and so forth from whatever point of view, I thought I’d being a blog of the good questions I’ve heard over the last day. Then it’s off to sleep * On CNN, they asked the Comcent folks, who don’t you just turn off the Iraqi…
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It won't be a cake walk
You can hope and pray, but it won’t be. I was up until 1AM watching CNN the other night. I still can’t believe you can watch this stuff. Anyway, more websites for news junkies: * Eye On Iraq. Like Global Strategy, has a good listof things going on. * “Naval Open Source Intelligence”:http://nosi.editthispage.com/. Amazing what…
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Techie Details
If you are like me and are glued (simultaneously) to CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, then you’ll love some of these sites. Every technical details. Worst part though is the next time, a reporter says, we are watching that tank, you’ll grimace and say that ain’t no tank, that dope, doesn’t he know thats…
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Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
Welcome to the Project for the New American Century. To me a frightening name for a project. Apparently, this is where the intellectual “muscle” and theory is for the Bush administration. Interesting if a little terrifying to read. They have it all figured out though. Good someone does.
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Malloy is a god
Free-Return: Why Free-Return?. Bill Malloy is an amazing guy. Just started a blog for him. I’m sure he’ll say some interesting and irreverent things. Here’s his inaugural post. I’ve only known him for a year or so, but it seems like a lifetime of stories already.
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It's started…one blog to read
Amazing. This is a blogger in Baghdad. Don’t think it is BS. A very interesting read… Where is Raed ?
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Mitsubishi Promise Module
More indepth look at the decision on getting the right over-the-air set-top-box. Here are relevant links: * Home Theater SPOT!. This is the debate about the Promise module for the Mitsubishi. It has an OTA tuner built-in, but costs $1K. Main advantage is the Firewire-5C for connecting with all digital copy protected settop boxes. *…
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Eve of War
Can’t quite believe that we are on eve of this war. Still glued to news.google.com. Lots of new on the internet of course. Most interesting things: * “Clare Short on Channel 4”:http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/03/week_3/18_goodman.html. Amazing turnabout. * “Tony Blair at House of Commons”:http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916790,00.html. Wow, is it me, or do the British politicians sound so much smarter. I…
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Home Theater Update
At least, I’m getting a few cycles in when not reading Google News. In any event, my mom and dad are moving into a new house and good ol’dad wants a great television setup. Here’s an update about this the latest to buy given it change so quickly h4. For Dad’s new Home Theater For…
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Military Driver License in Washington
The internet is an amazing place. I somehow got a hit from someone in the US Air Force who is shipping out soon. His Washington license is expired and he asked me of all folks what to do. Nice to be a geek and help someone who is really in the nation’s service. BTW, if…
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America to European Comparison
American vs. European Compairson If you ignore the tone of the piece and just look at the statistics, they sure are interesting. Birthrate differences, productivity, spending difference between the USA and the EU are pretty striking. Here’s a Harpers Index view of the article where he makes four points:
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Spaming blog comments
How depressing. Can you believe that someone has written a program to do this. I’m getting consistent spam comments now. Too bad. Another thing spoiled by spam.
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Help! I'm a news junkie!
I curse “Google News”:news.google.com a thousand times. It updates itself every 5 minutes or so with the top stories from around the world. This is going to become a pro- vs. anti-debate for me, its just about getting all the facts about what is happening. I’ll look for things that you wouldn’t ordinarily see. For…
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Thomas Friedman
Chicken ? la Iraq. Thomas Friedman is so brilliant and depressing at the same time. I’ve become a total news junkie. Will be interesting to see what happens. This reminds me of the joke about the man who gets lost and asks a cop for directions, and the first thing the cop says is, “Well,…
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Scanners
An update from early February, now includes a review of 35mm film scanners. Just in from PMA 2003 is an announcement for a flat bed scanner, the Canon 9900F that has the resolution of a film scanner (2800 dpi) and anti-dust software. Could be a good compromise between a film and a flat bed. Will…
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Tandem for the kids
Sheldon Brown on Tandems and Kids. Hmmm. Sheldon has a good idea here. Get a tandem and we can all ride together and not worry so much about them getting hit by a car. Will have to look into this. “Trailer Bike”:http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/trailrcy.html. An alternative is a Trailer bike that attaches to an existing bike. Not…
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Chains and things
Chain Maintenance. Just replaced my chain. First time I’ve ever worn one out. I should have checked earlier. I had thought the grinding was due to a loose bottom bracket, but in retrospect, it was probably the chain. That’s not mentioned in diagnostic manuals I have. So something for people to watch out for. If…
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Bicycle Tires: 3 months later
Bicycle Tires Trials. Back in November, I wore out my Continental GP3000s. Since then, I’ve tried a bunch of different tires. Here’s the scoop at least for me: * “Sdeals”:http://sdeals.com. They have the absolute best prices on tires I’ve seen. * “Continental GP 3000”:http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/de/en/continental/bicycle/themes/tires/race/grand_prix_3000/grand_prix_3000_en.html. These I actually wore out after 2,000 miles. At least the…
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Photography Blog
PhotographyBLOG -:- Home. Had to happen. Here’s a photography oriented blog. Surprised there aren’t more of them.
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Halogen Par30 light bulbs
Halogens PAR30. We have way too many light bulbs in our house and end up paying full retail when we need them. The $10 PAR30’s finally cracked me. So, a quick google search and here are some online places like bulbco.com that has them for $6. Good to know for all the many light bulbs…
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MovableType on Red Hat Linux 8.0
I’m getting a Linux server up for a new project over at Ignition. It remains amazing to me how hard integration is with the Windows world. Here are some notes on getting it running that I hope help others: * “Samba and file shares”:http://justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Connecting_to_SMB_Shares_from_Linux.html. The documentation for Samba is not very clear. Here is one…
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PMA 2003
Nothing like becoming an instant expert. Gary told us about PMA, the big industry trade show. Thanks to the Internet, it’s easy to find out what was announced. Here are some sites to check out: * Digital Photography Review. Has a good list of products. Check the reviews of the Adobe “Album”:http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/adobephotoshopalbum/ and the very…
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Long Distance
Now that Connie’s trip to Senegal went off so well, I thought it was a good time to look at our long distance carrier. We’ve been an AT&T customer forever mainly because I’ve been scared about call quality, but playing with these 1010 services has really changed my mind. Everest for instance has been good…
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Camera Flashes, Filters, Bags and more on Lenses
Now that I’ve figured out what camera and lense to get, there are all those other accessories. Good thing the internet is filled with folks reviewing the stuff. Here’s a quick list: h4. Flashes An additional thing, but I expect to be doing quite a bit of shooting indoor even though I’ll be using ISO…
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Jim Allchin and Google
pseudorandom. Frank points out Jim’s comments in the Seattle Times about Google and Longhorn. PR gaff no doubt, but I’m sure he’s been thinking about the problem for a long time!
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Lance Armstrong Separates
Jeffrey A. Cross: Armstrong And Wife Separate. How depressing. Lance and Kristin celebrate. I think I’ll buy Connie some flowers.
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Area 51
Area 51 Black Aircraft. Can’t remember where I found it, but here’s a list of strange aircraft around Area 51. Kind of nerdy, but what the heck.