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Upcoming phones Carriers are pretty bad at previewing what is coming. Here are some sites that I use to see what is up World GSM Cellular Phones. A top google hit. This site has lots of the world and other phones that are only available overseas. For instance, the drool is on for the next…

BIKEMAN’s On-Line Store: DERAILLEUR CABLE SETS. Just a note for myself. I need a new derailleur cable set. The ones on the bike are too short now that I blew up my carbon handlebars 🙁

Second Annual Weblog Awards. Ok, I’m off to find some great blogs now that mine is basically stabilized. Here is one spot that I’m looking at. Webloggers. Best Weblog webring. Movable Type. Hmm. Blogger was nominated. I’ll ahve to try this. Loobylu. Best Australian or New zealand weblog Weblog Wannabe. Best Asia weblog PlasticBag.org. Best…

Welcome to our Wireless World. Here is another website with data on cell phone and the plans.

speedup.tk A cool tool

WWW.K-LITE.TK – KaZaA Lite. KaZaA & KaZaA Lite Add-ons FastTrack Accelerator – Attempts to “find more sources” for idling downloads on your KaZaA & KaZaA Lite “Transfers” list. The FastTrack Accelerator seeks out other KaZaA users sharing the same file and attempts to download immediately. By using this tool, you’ll notice every file you attempt…

Zeropaid.com – KaZaA Lite

WWW.K-LITE.TK – KaZaA Lite

PowWeb – “The perfect hosting solution”. Will have to find a rating system for hosters. This site is advertised on hitbox.com. Nice thing is that it is $15/month and has 250MB, domain, FrontPage extensions, MySQL and PHP4. HitBox Outsourced Web Analytics. Google shows this to be the most used real time web statistics tools. Now,…

Thermos Nissan Wide Mouth Snack Jar JMG300. We don’t get hot lunches at our school, so Connie found these nifty Nissan Thermos. They are pretty amazing and although costly, they seem to work well. I sure hope they don’t lose them!

Ten Things I Hate About You – release date March 31, 1999. OK, I hate to admit that there are actually teen flicks that I admire, but here’s one that reminds me of Say Anything, one of my top favorites. Also has a great soundtrack. Not exactly the most rewarding film ever, but what the…

Mnemo-zine. This is my good buddy, Rob Bennett’s weblog. Great looking and it is what Radio can do for you. Hmmm. Should look into that tool too.

free php / cgi / mysql hosting directory. Here is another one that even has ratings. These are the five star ones… Hosters PHP MySQL Space Popularity Portland Communications PHP4 Yes 15 46370 CoolFreePages PHP4 Yes 50 35510 CoolFreeHosts PHP4 Yes 30 20855 Tripod PHP4 Yes 50 11888

Free PHP Hosting :: PHP/MYSQL Web Hosting Reviews :: The Best Spot to Search and Compare Free PHP Web Hosts.. An of course, there is actually an entire site dedicated to the topic of free PHP Hosting sties. Wow. I love the Internet. How can folks afford to do this. I see that some have…

Just $5/month! – Tranquil Hosting(tq). I need a web hoster that has PHP4 and Mysql support. These are the folks that cafelog.com were using for a while. Wow, great prices. $25/month gets you to 2GB of disk or $15/month gets you 250MB and PHP4 and Mysql. Only issue is that frontpage extensions aren’t supported, so…

tb-standalone – Standalone TrackBack. Wow, trackback and pings are a great idea that blogger doesn’t seem to have. You can basically incorporate entries across a bunch of blogs with trackback and know who is linked to you. Here is a standalone tool that does this for you via a CGI script.

Blogger archive script generator. Very cool a script generator so that you can get the archives to go latest first, etc. Nice work Phil!

Blogger FAQ blog. Yuck, the official Blogger FAQ doesn’t help with all the tags that you need. Here is a more complete list. The one I’m looking for is $BlogArchiveFileName which you can use to put your archive list on the front page.

b2 > ReadMeYou can now post news from an email client! This is a great reason to use b2 or blogger pro or radioland. So, it looks like either I pay for the latter, or find a hoster with the former… But first you’ll have to edit b2config.php, filling the appropriate values for your POP3…

wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Wow, you can from a WAP phone send something to a blog. How cool. You need to hit the WAP URL wap.ubique.ch/wapblogger to get there from any wap phone. Can’t wait to try it. This plus audio blogging and the Radioland email…

b2 >b2 installation. Arrrgggh. Hours later and the problem is that the installation instructions for B2 are incomplete. You have to go into the mysql administrator and create a database called b2 and then it all works. Doesn’t mention this in the installation and you only get a cryptic “undefined database” message. Now, let’s try…

PHP Coder. OK, the last step is to get an IDE for PHP. Wow, amazing what is free. Just downloaded this tool which has syntax checker, etc. Now, I can single step and figure out what is going on.

b2 on a Windows server is not supported. Wow, still couldn’t get B2 to run, I had forgotten what configuration hell was with all the various INI files. Here are the quick notes from that author on hacking at c:\windows\php.ini… Too numerous are the threads about problems installing b2 on a Windows server, and too…

WinZip? Home Page. so of course DDG is actually in Unix Tar compressed format, so you have to get winzip in order to read it since Windows XP doesn’t know this. Arrghh. How many layers down do I have to go. Also, with dbg, he saves it with the file extension .tar[1] so of course…

DBG: Php Debugger. OK, I’ve gotten Mysql, PHP4 and B2 installed, but the b2install.php script is generating an error, so off to find a good debugging tool. Google led me to this for a step by step debugger. Wow, a single integrated suite would sure be great. And of course, it turns out this debugger…

Configuring PHP 3 and 4, MySQL 3.23, PHPMyAdmin, gd, Zend Optimizer for IIS 5.0 under Windows 2000. OK, to get to Cafe/B2, a great blogger according the blog Compendium, I had to learn how to install MySQL, a terrific free SQL database and also PHP4. Wow, this was pretty tricky to do just by reading…

802.11 Wireless Home Network Recommendations. The new 802.11a at 72Mbps is coming out. Quite a few folks have been asking me about it. Right now for most homes I’d recommend that you get a low cost 802.11b solution for right now. My buddy Tom Hatsukami was asking and wanted to buy NetGear, so here are…

Rich’s Page Rank falls. I’m so depressed! I used to have a Google PageRank score of 4, so I didn’t feel so bad that Ludwig had a rank of 5. Now, I find I’ve just dropped to 2. Whatever the heck that means. Most depressing is that sites that you would think have few links…