My dad loves his iPod 20GB 4G so much he uses it all the time, now he just wants a case that won’t blow out the bank. Here are some choices: * iPodlounge Review: Vaja i-Volution 4G with Wheel Protector, It’s leather and beautiful but cost $60! Great to go with a nice briefcase 🙂 […]
Day: March 13, 2005
Just a Ride
_As the kids use the iPod, its interesting to see musical tastes evolve, here mine and Alex’s intersect perfectly with JEM’s Just a ride_ Jem Reviews on Yahoo! Music Finally Woken, Jem’s full-length debut, fleshes out the It All Starts Here EP with six additional tracks. It features the addicting title track, the one that […]
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MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities
a-giâu: MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities. Very clever, this plug-in blogs HTML that uses numerics to disguise spam. Pretty smart. Another thing to load and also once again proves the value of having a platform on the open internet.
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Anti-Spam Plugins
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse: New anti-spam plugins. Jay Allen notes that there are some great additional tools besides MT-Blacklist. Ones I have to load right away are: * “MT-Moderate”:http://jayseae.cxliv.org/moderate/. This moderates all trackbacks. I really need this. With this, I can turn TrackBacks back on!
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JBL Onstage breaks
JBL – Home Audio. I think I’m one of the unlucky ones. If you have an Onstage speaker system from JBL, then the thing either breaks or volume gets stuck. For me, it just doesn’t work. What happens is that there is a chip gets zapped. The conditions are: a) you have both the on […]
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Flexible Date Travel
Flexible Dates. Here is Dad’s tool for flexible travel. YOu just select the length of stay to say San Francisco and then it shows you want the cheapest dates are. Pretty neat. The current lowest fare to San Jose for instance is $144 roundtrip! “Europe Travel”:http://www.expedia.com/daily/vacations/europe/flights-cars.asp?rfrr=-33044. These are their special fares from Seattle to London. […]
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Airfares
It has gotten incredibly complicated (vs. easier) to find the lowest fares. The days of just typing into Expedia are over. Here’s how we do it and ironically, we ended up on Expedia but who knows: * “Expedia”:http://expedia.com. This is the place to start for vacation travel mainly because they let you choose each leg […]
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Great Books
Alex has just been reading up a storm. Here are some of his quick reviews of good books to read. He’s been tending towards fantasy and dragons and I have to say these are terrific if not already widely read, here are his most recently read with reviews: * “Artemis Fowl”:http://www.artemisfowl.com/. Actually this should be […]
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The Sims
TheSims2.com – Home. finally a modern game that Grace can love. This lets you basically play “dress up” on the computer. You can give clothes to a family, plan a picnic, etc. The neatest thing is that The Sims plugs into Sim City, so that they can live in a town. As Connie says soon, […]
