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Great recommendations… Harvey Nichols. Classic restaurant on top of this old line department store. Zaferanos. Mayfair. Tamarind on Queens St. For high cuisine Indian The Bombay Brasserie. Kensington. Classic Indian Senior Sassies. Opposite Harrods knightbridge. The Grenadier. Classic pub, Belgravia

I can sort of understand why they have had so much trouble. It is a nice product and sets up well. But I wanted to upgrade the plan from a yearly $129 to a lifetime $400. And when I called, they said, they couldn’t take my money. They have a 30 day window and the…

Continuing the trend of impossibly powerful machines at zero cost, the Mac Mini just got an update and most significant thing is that it uses the 9400M graphics chip, so you can play call of duty with it. It is $649 vs. $1200 for a full MacBook. It is a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo,…

Well, if you are suddenly at home and with nothing to do, nothing like finding an old mac mini and building your own PBX. It isn’t as hard as you think. You can plug your own analog phones in and look like a real business. Here are some tips from Darrell: While you can use…

Also just tried this Option key trick for other icons. It works for the network icon, you get the band, for bluetooth, you get the Mac’s bluetooth name and software version. Software Updates Explain Dual-Band Networking – TheAppleBlog Hold down the option key when clicking on your airport icon in the menu bar. That’ll give…

TG Daily – Apple’s new firmware enables remote disk sharing on wireless base stations Apple quietly revised the hardware of its Time Capsule wireless appliance and AirPort Extreme base station this past Tuesday. New models sport updated hardware that enables dual-band support which utilizes both 2.4GHz and 5Ghz bands simultaneously to maximize wireless network performance,…

The stalwarts, like the Four Seasons, the Blue Bar at the Algonquin and Bemelman’s at the Carlyle, and (here’s hoping) the Oak Room, which is to reopen in the Plaza later this summer. For the early crowd that finds that description of the late-night scene nauseating, how about a calm drink with a view at…

Now the Kindle 2 just needs to arrive 🙂 Amazon Releases Free ‘Kindle for iPhone’ Application – Mac Rumors Kindle for iPhone allows Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners to read Kindle books using a simple, easy-to-use interface. You can shop for hundreds of thousands of books at www.amazon.com/kindlestore, and wirelessly transfer the books to…

Their shares have been hammered, but Warren Buffet continues to be consistent http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html. I love his rules of building companies and investments: Take a look again at the 44-year table on page 2. In 75% of those years, the S&P stocks recorded a gain. I would guess that a roughly similar percentage of years will…

NYT: Blogs – DealBook – Harvard, Private Eq So, my numbers are rough, very rough estimates — but the problem is apparent. In the short term, unless it boosts its liquid returns, Harvard is going to have to raise a lot in donations or eat up its liquid assets to fund university obligations and its…