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Do Not Upgrade to your TomTom to 7.481
I just updated to the latest version of the firmware and now the TomTom hangs when search for a POI. “Tomtom Forums”:http://www.tomtomforums.com/showthread.php?s=85c58a2c63c0f09ae1ed4748c4fcfe4d&t=8710 reports lots of these problems. Basically, when searching a POI, it hangs on “Wait a moment…” amd then when you try to Find, you get a grey screen. The above was for the…
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Schultzy’s
Here is what I learned from Bruce about restaurants. He knows the folks are “Schultzy’s”:http://www.yelp.com/biz/shultzys-sausage-seattle for quite a while now. He’s a smart guy: * Its a cash business. So if you aren’t there everyday, it is really easy for a liquor bottle to disappear or for an order not to get rung up and…
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Snipes
Had a chance to look at a Snipe. Its a two person 15 1/2 foot long racing sailboat. The class started in 1931 and it is a nice one to race and hang out with. The folks at “Snipe444”:http://snipe444.org are great and there is a “boat”:http://www.snipe444.org/classifieds.html for sale. It is boat 26752, I guess they…
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Cathy Pacific Business Class
Wow, fully flat seats in business class on Cathay. Sign me up! And a flast screen TV too. That is great for the Vancouver to Hong Kong leg that I take sometimes.
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Solid State Drives
Drool, drool, solid state drives are on the way. They are as fast as traditional hard disks. They are about $1,000 per 64GB drive which is still expensive but coming down fast. Think about it as the logical upgrade for your current notebook. AnandTech: 64GB SSD on the Desktop: Samsung and OCZ go mainstream new…
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Movies from Video Games
Video games are so advanced now that you can make really good animated features from them. One of my favorite games, “Call of Duty 4”:http://codhq.com has been used for a really amazing series called “Retaliation”:http://www.machinima.com/film/view&id=25388. You have to see it to believe how good it is.
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Buying Guides
Dave asked me what review sites I use as he uses “Consumersearch.com”:http://consumersearch.com, I use a different site for each specialty area. And some notes on what’s the right buys… 1. Camcorders.info. The best reviews on video cameras. Canon HF-10 looks like the winner as HD camcorder2. Dcviews.com. An overview site with links to the very…
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Soros on the economy
Minds over Money: The godfather of global investors – May. 14, 2008 Where is your money now? A. Mostly in my endowment fund, a good portion of which I had farmed out to other money managers. When I saw what I considered the most serious financial crisis of my lifetime, I came out of retirement…
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Darrell is a genius
Here are some of the things he has selected…for us. He’s great and some good choices for others that are thinking about small business applications: * “Fonality”:http://fonality.com. IP PBX and also a PC Magazine editors choce. They sell a hardware box. $1000 is the software charge for standard. Professional is $2K with the main additional…