Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

This is the answer to all of us who want electronic shifting but can’t afford it. Shimano takes the next step and announces a lower cost version with the Ultegra Di2. It allows fora  28 tooth gear in the rear which is good. It has the sizes we want: standard Ultegra with chainset options of…

The primary is coming up again and the most important thing in Seattle at least is the Aurora bridge replacement. So if you don’t want to see gridlock (or if you do, nows the time). Some endorsements from the left or Seattle Times for center endorsements as well.

Well, finally working through problems with Tivos and so forth and got the home theater running with a Tivo that isn’t connected to cable but does transfer from another tivo (I think BTW, I can now get rid of the yealry subscription on this thing and use it use for viewing Tivo content easily as…

Ok, here is where I am: Preview.app crashes. It looks like this is related to the number of files opened. If I open about 100 or so, I get a MALLOC error. So limiting it to 40 or so files and being careful about this strange new auto open every file preview has ever seen…

Today seems like a day to collect things that I need…here are the many cool Blu Rays coming out thanks to blu-ray.com Lord of the Rings. The extended edition is finally out and it looks and sounds great Matrix. I already have this and it is great Terminator. Well the ones that are worthwhile are…

OK, just had a really wonderful photography do an event for us. There were two amazing things: 1. The lowlight performance of the Nikon D700 is just incredible. Can’t believe how wonderful those shots are with the soft light. Too bad I’m a Canon lense person 2. If someone really cared about me, they would…

Well who wants to pay $30 for an iPhone charger for your car or whereever. I just bought a round of dual chargers at half the price, here is a review: XTG-IPAD2USB. The nice thing is that it has a 2.1 amp and a 1 amp charger for an iPad and something else. Actually because…

I’m not sure what it is and not posted, but this application which I’ve used forever because it is so fast for previewing and going through photos is broken for me. The resume windows feature is very strange. It brings up old windows I don’t need. No apparent way to turn that off. Also it…

Well one drop and it is all over. With an iPhone 4G, it costs $29 from Apple to get a new one. Pretty reasonable. But it costs $200 if you can believe it for an older model. Fortunately Jet Repair does this for $70 and they are actually in Seattle. Good to keep that 3G…