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  • Costco Auto and Discounts

    Costco Costco Auto Buying Program. Well I always knew that Costco had a program for buying cars. I didn’t realize how online it is. Now you can contact dealers online. Also if you are an executive member and you go to a participating dealer, you get 15% off of service, parts and accessories. That alone…

  • Mini DVD Consumables

    If you buy a DVD camcorder, then you are going to need lots of: * Verbatim Mini DVD-R 1.4GB 4X DigitalMov (Verbatim-95089) – PriceGrabber.com. This is a 5 pack and Verbatim has been reliable for me in the past. They are about $13, so about $3.50 each from buy.com * “Sony 3 Pack DVD-RW”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=1597832/sort_type=bottomline. These…

  • Mini DVD Media

    Mini DVD (DVD-R) Mini DVD (DVD-RW) Camcorder Video Media – PriceGrabber.com. If we are going to get a mini DVD Camcorder, you need special 8cm media to put in there. Here is Pricegrabbers list. The choices are essentially * DVD-R which is write once and stores 20 minutes worth of video. They are about $5…

  • Web 2.0 Companies

    From Istanbul To Sand Hill Road: Web 2.0 Companies. _I’ve been starting to use del.icoi.us a bunch so it is fun to randomly go through links that others are using. Kind of like the days before I could really look through all the blogs on the Internet. Anyway, here’s a list of Web 2.0 companies.…

  • Digital Videos from your library

    King County Library System – eCollection – Home. How amazingly cool. King County now has a deal where you can download IMAX and other films onto your PC. Check them out and watch them. They also do classical music and books-on-tape as well. These do use Windows encryption so they won’t work on your iPod…

  • CSI Miami music

    CSI:guide.com – CSI and CSI:Miami Music. CSI Miami in particular has just the best music. Unlike the unofficial Alias soundtracks, no one seems to have complied them, but at least there is a list of some of the songs on the CSI Guide.

  • United Airlines Promotions

    United Airlines – Promotions: Air. These folks run an amazing number of promotions, but in order to participate, like a robot, you have to go to the promitoin site and sign up. So check there every so often. Big ones are win a million miles if you fly once. If you fly inside Asia, get…

  • Western Digital Caiviar SE16 400GB

    Oh well, I’ve long had a failing 250GB hard drive (a Western Digital Caviar) in our old Athon XP 3200 system. Now it has finally given up the ghost. It won’t format and it won’t boot. When I diagnosed it last time, some sectors had failed and it wouldn’t boot properly. Now it looks like…

  • NJStar better than Windows XP

    Chinese Software, Japanese Software & Korean Software by NJStar ???. In writing Chinese, I’ve mainly been using the free inpute method editor (IME) that comes with Windows XP. Our Chinese tutor says that I should give NJStar a try. There is a free trail, but she likes the word processor and the communicator better. The…

  • Special Friend Day

    Some special friends and their favoriate broadway tunes: * Amazon.com: With a Song In My Heart (from the 1952 film)/ Pal Joey (with 1952 cast members): Music: Harold Arlen,Sammy Fain,George Gershwin,Peggy Lee,Matt/ Livingston, Fud Malneck,Alfred Newman,Richard Rodgers,Arthur Schwartz,Jule Styne,Various Composers,. With A Song from my Heart from the 1952 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical called Spring…