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Continue reading →: Bob finds a cool hovercraft
!http://bobsplanet.com/serendipity/uploads/suna-x-xsmIMG_8419.jpg!:http://bobsplanet.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/88-Hovercraft-spotted-in-Lake-Union.html What a cool craft. The story according to “Skyscrapercity.com”:http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=222307 is even more interesting, instead of building a road through a wildlife preserve, about 200 people got congres to give them a $8.8M hovercraft. Wahoo. Tax dollars at work. I want one. hattip to “Bob”:http://bobsplanet.com who has by the way…
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Continue reading →: Disk Boot Failure Insert System Disk and I Forgot my Password
The gremlins ate our CMOS and also the boot hard disk of Connie’s computer this morning and now we get the dreaded “DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER”:http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/booterrGBER13-c.html. It is an incredibly obscure error which no site seems to document properly. In my case, what happened was…
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Continue reading →: Alaska for holiday or for living
Living in Seattle, we see lots of folks up in Alaska and we end up being the jumping off point. There’s a big difference between living up there and taking a holiday there. The summers in Alaska are pretty amazing. We were there for two weeks in August and the…
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Continue reading →: Olympic Theme Songs
Well, in prepping for Calvin’s party, learned some fascinating (at least to me!) things about the Olympic theme songs: # “Answers.com”:http://www.answers.com/topic/olympic-symbols. The song we most closely associate with the Olympics has nothing to do with the official Olympics. It is actually written by Leo Arnaud and is called “Bugler’s Dream”.…
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Continue reading →: Rebooting Your Blackberry
Hat tip to the folks at “Blackberrycool.com”:http://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/03/15/00275/ for these tips that give you the equivalent of CTRL-ALT-DEL for your Blackberry: * If you have a 72xx, 75xx or 77xx then if the Blackberry crashes, you get back by holding ALT+CAP+DEL to reboot the device if you have Blackberry software V3.x…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry Back From the Dead
I thought I had completely bricked Connie’s 7100. But thanks to the wonderful folks at T-mobile (double credit for helping me, really bad that it isn’t just on the web), I got it back. To review, I was installing new firmware, when I got, the dreaded, installation failed from the…
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Continue reading →: Girl with a Pearl Earring
!>http://www.doxycide.org/gwape/painting_thumb.jpg! Just saw the movie, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”:http://www.doxycide.org/gwape/about.php and while a little obscure, it sure was a beautiful period piece. The painting of course is known as the Mona Lisa of the North and it is pretty amazing. Some interesting facts: * It all started from Johannes Vermeer…
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Continue reading →: SLI Disable message
Answer Error stating that SLI Multi-GPU rendering is disabled every time the system is booted on a NON SLI capable computer
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Continue reading →: Virtual Skipper Skins
Virtual Skipper has a bunch of European sites that have a huge number of boats that are designed for it. The skinning work is amazing, so check out and you put them in c:\program files\Virtual Skipper 4\Templates\ and create a file which is the name of the boat: * “Virtual…
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