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Quaoar: A New Planet?
New Planet-Shaped Body Found in Our Solar System. Calvin and Grace have been having great fun with this discovery of a new planet at the edge of solar system. There are either eight, nine or ten planets now. Depends on how you look at it.
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Windows XP SP1
TweakTown :: Overclocking, tweaking, overclock, tweak, computer, CPU, motherboard, graphics, memory, processor, cooling and case modding. It’s amazing how fast the Internet community figures things out. The Windows XP SP1 knows about pirated keys from the original release and doesn’t install on these. In about 10 minutes after it is released, you get pages like…
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Testing games
Getting ready to test a new product by Pure Networks. I just love it when this consists of playing the best and funnest PC games. Here are some lists I used to do a little shopping: TechTV | The Best PC Games of 2002. From their most recent show. IGN Editors Choice. They keep a…
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Microsoft guy critiques Windows Media Player
jetsam redux. Joe critiques Media Player and I gather he got lots of questions about why a Microsoft person would criticize a product. Bravo to you Joe. Nothing gets better if you don’t think critically about it IMHO. I have never yet seen a perfect product or one that couldn’t use improvement. Even ones in…
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Fiefdoms
Joe who’s at Microsoft write about Bherbolds new book Be Wary of Fiefdoms. Fiefdoms. Fiefdoms. I spent 12 years living in them. The anecdote about how many people do you have working for you. During my early years at Microsoft, I found that Bill wasn’t the only top executive who was frustrated with the inefficiency…
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Fiefdoms
Joe who’s at Microsoft write about Bherbolds new book Be Wary of Fiefdoms. Fiefdoms. Fiefdoms. I spent 12 years living in them. The anecdote about how many people do you have working for you. During my early years at Microsoft, I found that Bill wasn’t the only top executive who was frustrated with the inefficiency…
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Moviemistakes.com
Jasonw points out a great site called moviemistakes.com that covers the gooks and fun mistakes made in movies. Kind of interesting for a geek like me. When filming the battle of Helm’s Deep the makers used a computer programme called Massive, where each person has its own “mind”, making it far easier to generate huge…
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Linux Test
CodeWeavers Store. Runs Office on Linux.
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Blog writing style debated
Joi Ito’s Web: Blog style review. Joi brings up a good point. What is a blog. Is it like a verbal conversation, like email, like writing a document? Personally, I think it is more like email than a “tight” document most of the time. The thing is that blogs like web sites don’t dictate a…
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Spam, spam, spam
Pdawwg: A Proposal!!!. Pdawwg loves the spam he gets! He should try popinfo at Sourceforge. It is the most active project on Sourceforge and it is amazingly hard to install. On the other hand, it is right now 98% effective and rising in getting rid of spam. BTW, on my rich@tongfamily.com inbox, spam is running…
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North Korea vs. Japan
Pdawwg: Of Course we Believe You!. There must be a good North Korea analysis site somewhere, but it is not encouraging the rhetoric.
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Blogmints
Blogmints.com – What the blogs are talking about. Another interesting way to see what the important entries are. Blogmints looks at weblogs.com and figures out what are the most commented on topics. All of these methods are like higher level forms of what google.com is doing with links. Interesting to spend a day browsing it.
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Sea Monkeys (a.k.a. Brine Shrimp
Sea Monkey Worship Page!. Grace got this at the Ignition Holiday Party. Alex has been doing a great job taking care of them, but now we’ve lost the food. So, here we are in search of how to get Sea Monkey food. Of course, there is a page worshipping them with lots of information. Artemia…
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MPAA Broadcast Flag — Yuck!
Consensus at Lawyerpoint: MPAA FAQ on Broadcast Flag. This is just horrible. They are going to broadcast flag bits so that you can’t record them digitally. What is the MPAA thinking.
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Rechargeable Batteries
Seems like everyhting this christmas needs batteires. Here’s my quick guide to rechargeables: NiMH Batteries – Thomas Distributing. I’ve been ordering from Thomas Distributing at nimhbattery.com for over a year now. They are very reliable and seem to have all the latest stuff. The Great Battery Shootout!. For the really nerdy, there are actually test…
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New Years Eve 2002 Dinner
Connie put me in charge the night before, so I was more than a little nervous. Finally decided to do Southwest as a theme because I just couldn’t get pumped about Greek. We use the Pasqual cookbook. It’s a terrific restaurant in Santa Fe. We had an incredible menu thanks to the efforts of Phil,…
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Internet is part of American Life
Pew Internet & American Life Project. An amazing set of facts about how the Internet is the key to finding information for most users. It is far beyond the geekstream and into the mainstream. A nice study. Thanks to Boingboing for finding it.
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Winter tires
Customer Survey Results. I’m going up into the snow quite a bit this season. Other than borrowing Jennie’s Subaru, I really should get a good set of winter tires. This looks like the best review board. It says, Pirelli Winter 210 Snowsport, Bridgestone LM-22 or the Dunlop Winter Sport M2 are the highest rated by…
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Linux and its Applications
OfB.biz: Open for Business – OfB Open Choice Awards 2002. We’ve seen so many Linux based deals, I finally decided we had to have at least one machine running and using it. Just converted an old HP machine at work to use Red Hat Linux 8.0. Have to say it was an amazingly easy experience.…
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Chris Carmichael Training
Chris Carmichael Training Camps. I’m going to have to go to one of his camps this year. The March one is closed unfortunately. Maybe the September one. Lance Armstrong: Member Journals: CTS Cafe: Carmichael Training Systems Also, here’s a great place to see Lance’s training diary. It’s sort of like a blog. Fun reading.
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Eureka mail2entry for MovableType
Joi Ito’s Web: mail2entry script for MT moblog. Thank you Joi, Thank you Joi. You’ve just saved me days of work. I was just about to get started on the same project and you’ve done it for me. I’m going to be moving a bunch of folks over to MovableType and this was the one…
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Scripting vs. Java and C Comparisons
Python Compared. A fascinating study list of comparisons fo different languages and how efficient they are. Perhaps the best study done was by
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Korea
North Korea. Hmm. This reads like a Tom Clancy novel and not a good scenario. North Korea could make a nuke in six months. South Korea is led by a peacenik who has never been outside of Korea. South Koreans distrust the U.S. and think the North Koreas will be enthralled by hugs and kisses.…
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LOTR Rantings…
Geek Blog: Two Towers review. I just loved the movie and I’ve read the book. Truth is that I can appreciate both. Someone in the long comment thread says that books are books and movies are movies. And the two don’t translate well between them. I’ve read a couple of authors and screenplay writers who…
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Year of the Blog
TCS: Tech – Year of the Blog. A good summary of what happened this year with blogs. It is amazing how quickly the phenomena has made it out of the high level geeks to only the partial geeks like me! …bloggers areasking for money. Few will make a living from their blogs – but then,…
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Merry Christmas
Interalia.org: I hate home. Sorry that Kevin hates home. I’ve felt the same way. Can only say that sometimes it gets better (and sometimes it doesn’t). Amazing how people can get on each others nerves, but that’s the holidays. For me, I’m just happy that the holidays are great fun for all of us now!
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How google works
Top 10 Google Myths Revealed. good reading on how google works. makes me feel slightly better ludwig is a 4 while i’m a 3. and pure networks is a 4. Main thing I learned is that i should post a job listing on hotjobs.com or something to get a high value site to point to…
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Joi Ito's Moblog
Joi’s Moblog. Pretty cool. Joi Ito wanders around all day taking pictures. I love it.
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Glogs, Moblogs and Blogs
Joi Ito’s Web: Steve Mann on glogs. Joi Ito points out Steve Mann’s writings on so called glogs. Given digital cameras, I think he means more like mobile photo blogs moplogs??? There really isn’t a good way to point through an article on MovableType, so this is the best way I’ve found.
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DVD Reviews
Here are some movie related sites that I use: dvd authority v4.0 -=> . Just had a chance to see Lord of the Rings: Two Towers again. Better the second time, I’d say. Also been looking at getting the collectors edition of volume 1. This site seems to have the coolest reviews. Now that widescreenreview.com…