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It is hard to find reviews of these and most seem like junk. Monoprice does a budget set for $83, but Sound and Vision just did a review set: We really liked the Niles OS5.5, and we thought the Definitive Technology AW5500 and the Klipsch AW-525 were both pretty good. Review: Outdoor Speakers | Sound…

As Scott says, with cameras getting so much better, we’d all better learn how to shoot and what makes a great photograph. Here are some lists of these, starting with Ken Rockwell’s list: Ken Rockwell’s What Makes a Great Photograph.. He’s a great resource and puts things into plain English. In this case, his point…

Well, it is not so much obscure as local, but we had a chance to visit Agriloro and meet with the owner. He’s a wonderful guy and reminds me of the day when winery owners had the time to meet with customers. He even got into his car to try to find us as we…

I have a bunch of the orignal Camelbaks (the MULE amongst them), but now that every backpack is hydration bladder compatible and these things get dirty (you want to get a cleaner for them especially the tubes). It’s time to see what a good option is for just getting a new set of bladders. Outdoorgearlab.com…

Well, if you are every going to Basel, it is indeed beautiful, but on Sundays most of the shops are closed, so what to do, Wikitravel has some good tips: Kunstmuseum Basel, St. Alban-Graben 16, city center, +41 61 206 62 62, [29]. Basel’s exquisite art museum houses an impressive permanent collection of 19th and…

While digital means you mainly just share photos, sometimes it is fun to make a photo album during a party. We have a Canon iP100 and it produces incredible quality prints up to A4 or Legal size, but it is slow and the automatic paper feed doesn’t work super well. We used the Selphy CP900…

Just a reminder about how to minimize your roaming costs when you are overseas: If you are on Verizon: Sign up for the $25 for 100MB international data plan. Works in most European countries (and China) When you call, use Skype to call the US using the international data. Way cheaper than the $1.29 a…

Been using and playing with virtual machines a lot and it is pretty clear, you benefit from having an SSD and more memory. While the latest macbooks are faster, etc., even a five year old machine still work great. I’m amazed at the quality of the keyboard and the cases and the displays. The SSDs…

Bluehost has been good to me, even though expensive at $10/month (can’t believe that is expensive), the only limitation is that it is pretty insecure to use FTP and they don’t like large files (greater than 1GB), so it isn’t the perfect server for everything. And they only allow the main account to use SFTP.…

We are using Mailman for simple lists. And got this peculiar errot What does “message has implicit destination” mean? – Documentation – Confluence 2) The message was BCC’ed (blind carbon copied) to the list, and was actually not addressed to the list directly (not that you can see). If you’re running an umbrella list, you…