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Date night restaurants
Always a question what a good date night restaurant. There are quite a few in Seattle we like including: * Sostanza : Madison Park – Seattle. Romantic. Great country Italian. Ok, it ain’t Napoli, but its OK. * “Nishino”:http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10789937/. Some say it is the best sushi restaurant in Seattle. Great atmosphere and high quality. The…
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DFI LanParty nF4 revisited
OK, finally got a replacement Athlon 3800 and a new DFI LanParty. What an expensive experiment with that Arctic Silver. I ripped the CPU out of the CPU socket and torqued the motherboard and maybe the CPU. So if you have a Thermaltake XP-120 beware when you take it off. The safe way is *not*…
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Learning Chinese
It sure ain’t easy to learn Chinese. But, the web does make it a little easier. Here is one kind of cool tool called Chinese Chat. This has a bot that writes arbitrary pinyin and then you can click on each word and see what it means. Useful for the occasional look during mind numbing…
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MN-500 Software and Reset
We have a Microsoft MN-500 Broadband router and lost the software. It is discontinued so how do you get the software that resets it at this “Knowledge Base”:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/814445? article. MSBBN: How to update the firmware and software for your Microsoft Broadband Networking device. You can actually find the manual online too at “Microsoft”:http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/6/9/B69C956C-85D9-4641-AA6F-1548391E0967/MN500_usersguide.pdf and it…
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F.E.A.R Patches
3D Gamers :: Game Listing :: F.E.A.R. Downloads. They are up to version 1.02, so download it now. 120MB of stuff!
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iPod Accessories
!>http://www.ilounge.com/assets/images/reviews_kensington/digitalfm/kdfm5.jpg! Well, that Video iPod sure looks cool and I have the Nano and the older iPod Color 4G, but what about all the accessories? Also “Gizmodo”:http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/ipod/ has some offbeat products but doesn’t review them as well as ilounge.com. Here are the ones I got from the last round a longish term review and the…
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Movable Type 3.2 Templates
Learning Movable Type: MT3.2 – Changing the Default Sidebar Position. With Movable Type 3.2, the big changes are better anti-spam and also a switch to a new set of default templates that are the same across MT, TypePad and LiveJournal, but that makes it pretty hard to understand. The Learning blog has a good description…
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Refurbished and Surplus R Us
99% of the time, if it says refurbished and a great deal or surplus, you just know someone is trying to rip you off. However, I’ve found a few places where really great customer oriented companies take returns and the refurbished thing makes some sense. Here are some that I troll: * The Apple Store…
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Mac Defragmenter
OS X Maintenance And Troubleshooting. I’ve been mvoing files like crazy and my old iMac with OS X 10.2 is getting really slow. Maybe defragging will help. Here are some general things. Folks like Norton Speedisk quite about for the Mac it turns out.
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iPod to Computer
Copying music from iPod to computer. A good guide to copying from your iPod if your hard drive gets trashed. “iPodAgent”:http://ipodsoft.com is the recommended freeware product that does this.