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Its so sad, I used to be so good at these games when they were on the PC and now on consoles, I’m just dead last in our house. There is a big shift from single player to multiplayer. Multiplayer isn’t really a combat simulation, but something else entirely. So…

Yuck why is it so hard to find a decent webcam. The izon looks nice and nice way to integrate. Like the time capsule when it starts it creates it’s own private network and I connect to that. But what a strange mess of software. There is no web UI.…

Well, I’m not sure I’d get the Fire vs. the new iPad 3, but for reading books, it does seem like a dedicated device is the right answer. So is it Nook or is it Kindle? Both are $99, so what are the pros and cons? The pushes are: Identical…

I’m not usually a scaredy cat, but I have to admit yesterday while slamming through heavy rains on the highway, I did have the chance to do some mental calculations. So why is it so bad to do the speed limit (65-70 mph) while there are heavy rain? By heavy,…

Well, it’s thanksgiving and now its time to do some shopping. Everyone is standing in line, but it is incredible what you can buy online, so here is a list of best of’s: Big Agnes UL3 Tent. The Big Agnes 3UL is the lightest tent for 3 people that you…

Good noodles places in Seattle courtesy of the Seattle times. Ba bar. Capitol hill. Bang Hoi heaven. Hue dumplings handmade. 550 12 Ave. 206-328-2030 Il corvo. Hillclimb. The best lunch pasta ever. Northwest tofu. Central district. Tofu noodles. Yum! 1913 S Jackson. Ting momo. Tibetan dumpling. Yum! Southlake union. 310…

Well I have an old Seagate 1TB drive I’ve been using to store photos mainly on my photoediting workstation. Been using USB as this thing from Seagate has mini-USB, firewire and eSATA. The iMac has USB and Firewire, but the pins are different. The iMac looks like it has Firewire…

For learning Chinese, I’m using Qingwen on the iPhone quite a bit. It has really good recognition, but mainly it has word lists which are great. It also gives example phrases and the ability to use Handwriting for Chinese is terrific. On the Mac, there are a host of resources…

Lots have been written about the best channels to use on 2.4GHz. The short word is that in a big installation you want to use channel 1, 6 and 11 as these are the only non-overlapping channels. So in say a big house, you’d want the basement atl channel 1,…