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Next PC to Buy I’m also going to put a new graphic card into Grace’s machine. Want to get an nVidia, but this piece shows, the new NV30 is the one to wait for in November. Otherwise, it’s a midrange Radeon. The couple of clipped articles here should give you…

Tom’s Hardware Guide CPU Guide: Hot Contraband: P4 With 3.6 GHz – Comparison Of All P4 CPUs. I can’t believe it, but it is time for me to think about upgrading computers again. Our main server is a Pentium IV 450MHz. The screamer of three years ago. Grace has a…

High Quality MP3 Encoding OK, this was one night project to figure out how to do really high quality. Some would say archival MP3s. Boy, did I learn a lot between 1AM and 10PM. Suffice to say that encoding is very complicated. The summary of what I learned is: MusicMatch…

Discussion of Audio Compression. I’ve been doing a lot of MP3 encoding. Finally decided to see who had actually tested it. This is a wonderful site with lots of information and ont much beauty, but it sure is helpful.

Rolling Requiem. Pretty amazing what the Internet can do. This was a project to play Mozart’s Requim around the world on September 11, 2002. From right here in Seattle too.

“The Family Man” Network This is another part of the study on doing a good job in home networking. I did this work for Dynacenter as they figure out the top tasks that folks will have. If you have random thoughts send them on to Steve. It seems to me…

Mike Nash. One of my best buddies. he’s got a terrible looking site, but that is probably because he is too busy working making the world safe from hackers at Microsoft. Here’s a much better corporate biography. David J.. Another buddy of mine from Hollywood no less. Of course as…

Mike-Levin.com – Who Let In The Bees? – bees

General Colin Powell

Never Give In? – Winston Churchill never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.