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Continue reading →: Helen and John Don’t Shop…
Our buddies Helen and John have a resolution, they aren’t shopping for anything for a year. The Anti-Shopping Year. Good luck to them! Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: Type in a private jet tail number or airline flight number to find out where it is
If you type in any tail number of any private jet from “Landings.com”:http://www.landings.com/_landings/pages/search.html you can search for any N-prefix which are US registered. Then if you type into google, the tail number, you’ll get the “registry.faa.gov”:http://registry.faa.gov site to tell you about the aircraft and then you can use “Flightaware.com”:http://flightaware.com/live/ to…
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Continue reading →: Conde Nast Traveler Gold List 2007
The “Gold List 2008”:http://www.concierge.com/bestof/goldlist/2007 An incredible useful list of great restaurants, hotels and around the world. Its pretty accurate actually because it is a reader poll. At least the areas that I know, San Francisco, LA, New York, “Shanghai:http://www.concierge.com/bestof/goldlist/2007/regions/asia/china/1shanghai I’d agree for instance that the “Pudong “Shangri-La”:http://www.concierge.com/bestof/goldlist/2007/hotels/detail?id=297&lastUrl=/bestof/goldlist/2007/regions/asia/china/1shanghai&label=Shanghai%20hotels is probably the…
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Continue reading →: Component vs. DVI vs. HDMI
DVI vs. HDMI vs. Component Video — Which is Better? First, to clear away one element that can be confusing: DVI and HDMI are exactly the same as one another, image-quality-wise. The principal differences are that HDMI carries audio as well as video, and uses a different type of connector,…
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Continue reading →: United Red Carpet Clubs with Showers or Arrival Suites
When you arrive in an overnight, it sure is nice to clean up and feel fresh. Here are the shower facilities as I know them and you can kind of glean things from Skytrax “Lounge reviews”:http://www.airlinequality.com/Product/Lounges.htm United Red Carpet Clubs in Hong Kong, London Heathrow, Sydney and Tokyo Narita have…
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Continue reading →: Rootkit
Maybe I have a “rootkit”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit and not a virus. Despite all my best efforts, I can’t seem to get rid of this thing that creates a six digit EXE in c:\windows\temp. Wikipedia actually says that if you have one, the best thing to do is to reinstall since a rootkit…
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Continue reading →: iPhone shipping late June
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About Reuters reports that an AT&T executive confirmed that the iPhone will be arriving “at the end of June”. “Our expectations are good. Our testing has been good,” said AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson. “The iPhone is on target to…
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Continue reading →: Airlines
“AirlineQuality.com”:http://www.airlinequality.com/. I haven’t used this site in a while because I’ve mainly been stuck on United. But just this month, I’ve been on Qantas, JAL and probably Cathay soon, so it bears some checking. Some quick reviews for me and also see “FlatSeats.com”:http://flatseats.com which only reviews the high end seats.…
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Continue reading →: Roguecleaner and Rising.com.cn
As I mentioned had a really bad case of spyware. No US program would get rid of it (including Yahoo’s version of Webroot, Spybot, Trend Micro, etc). Finally got rid of it with a set of Chinese programs. First is Rogue Cleaner (“Onlinedown.net”:http://www.onlinedown.net/soft/42382.htm) or ????????. There is also an online…
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Continue reading →: Send on Behalf
I really don’t know why it is so complicated, but if you want to be able to have someone send a message on behalf of you and look at your email, there is a complicated process to get Outlook and Exchange to do it. This method from “Microsoft”:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011367671033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033 seems to…
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