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  • Eldest by Christopher Paolini

    Amazon.com: Books: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2). Alex just loved this and I did as well. Amazing since it was written orginally by a 16 year old. Here is the second of the trilogoy coming in August 2005.

  • Eoin Colfer

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  • Audacity

    Audacity – Reviews and free downloads at Download.com. The most popular freeware MP3 and audio editor in general. The only issue is that while powerful, it edits in uncompressed WAV file and so recompressing is a hassle. Ideally, an editor would keep the MP3 in its encoded form and edit from there. Saves time and…

  • Volvo Upgrades

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  • TomTom GO 700

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  • Sportrak Pro Update

    Magellan Sportrak Pro. It’s been nearly a year since I’ve used this. A blown knee took a lot out of the season. Anyway, for those of you who have it, here are the update instructions. It is pretty arcane and not very clear on the Magellan site what you need to do, but presuming you…

  • Catastrophic Error and Error 365

    Tong Family Blog: Prefetch Exception and Abort Exception. I’m developing a negative attitude towards blackberrys 🙁 Since we last chatted about it, I’ve had more problems with the Blackberry 7230. First, I started to get Java Exception Errors when dialing and the phone application would crash. Scott then tried to reload the software and the…

  • Scion xB Upgrades

    When I actually drove the Scion xB, it was cheap and great, but it had a couple of pretty big drawbacks. Fortunately, the thing is so customizable, that a quick visit to various enthusiast sites got me to the fixes for in order: # Low Power. It is only 108 hp so it is sloooowww…

  • Transport Recommendations

    Had a chance to drive the Prius and the Scion, the Scion is a pretty cool car. In depth in 2005, here’s my recommendations for cars. The main criteria are a) reliable, b) fuel efficient (30 mpg or more), c) seats 5, d) can carry a bike easily, e) can get me and the kids…

  • Using Bit Torrent

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