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Nothing like going through a whole bunch of stuff that has been dumped into Hefty garbage guys to put a damper on your whole day. On the other hand, nothing like unloading a whole boxful of All Clad pots to lighten your day. It’s been one of those days 🙂…

Sign of the times. Got a few bucks off the new MacBooks from MacMall 13″ 2GHz MacBook $1299 retail is $99 off13″ 2.4GHz MacBook $1599 off $10015″ 2.4GHz MacBook Pro $2000 off $25617″ 2.66GHz MacBook Pro $2800 off $1891.6 GHZ MacBook Air $1800 off $801.8GHz SSD MacBook Air $2500 off…

What an amazing weekend. Went to Sundance Film Festival. Not often you get to do something that is so different. Glad I love movies for sure. And the weather has been perfect. Watching all these movies has been really fun. And there’s even skiing. Strange to be in Utah the…

I has been a long time since I could just listen to really loud music and enjoy it. Thank goodness for Aerosmith, Kanye west and all the speaker systems in the world.

Stuck waiting for a two hour flight that will now take seven hours to get there. How sad, faster to get to Tokyo than Salt Lake! Anyway, time to look through the latest at CES and also at the latest in projectors. AVSForum is a great resource for the high…

I’m an idiot. Major mail problems while traveling. My entire inbox and all folders were deleted. Blaming China Mobile, iPhone, Mac Mail. Turns out I was trying to build a Entourage rule to “erase” some people from my mail. Delete anything they would ever send me and I accidentally set…

Argh. Networks are such a pain. Conference call at 3AM then the network breaks. Traced to an old Linksys WAP54G which wouldn’t pass DHCP addresses. Of course, the Mac doesn’t warn you about this, so signal is strong, but you have to go to Preferences/Network to find out that you…

The first reviews are coming in on the 5D2 AnandTech: First Look: Canon 5D Mark II The base range of the original 5D is 100 to 1600 ISO with expansion to 3200. Canon appears to have succeeded very well in matching and surpassing the low noise and superb resolution of…

So what if you want surround sound say in the family room, but don’t have any easy way to run wires to the back? Logitech has their Z-5450 which is 4 speakers plus a subwoofer. The rear speakers can be as far away as 8.5 meters (28 feet) and still…

Well, I have a pretty good kit of lenses tuned for the APS sized sensor on the Canon 350D but now with a full frame Canon 5D Mark II, many of my favorite lenses don’t work: EF-S 10-22mm. I use this more than you think. On a small frame camera…