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Ultralight Business Travel: Packing
OK, besides getting the right travel bag (analogous to getting the right backpack), what else can you do? Like ultralight camping, ultralight business travel consists of looking everywhere for an ounce here and an ounce there. Here’s an example of before and after when I think about packing for a say a 3 day trip.…
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Dad's Login Page
One of the hard things about the internet is making favorites really work well. When folks are on different machines, it is really complicated. It is too bad there isn’t a central repository for folks settings for simple things like the links on a browser toolbar. So instead, a blog is a good way to…
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PC Buying Guide for August
Well, its that time again for PC buying recommendations. This time, great kudos to AnandTech’s June Overclocking Guide. I love this particular guide because it includes what machines overclock well to get you additional price/performance. I’m also in the middle of building up a high-end PC for my own video editing, gaming and digital photography…
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Tour de France Photos
www.cyclingnews.com presents the 91st Tour de France, 2004. Great photos from the Tour de France. The race may be over, but the memory lingers on.
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Scanners Guide 2004
Scanner Reviews (Editorial) Sorted by Date – Page 1 – eCoustics.com . eCoustics is getting better and better, they now are a meta-review site that looks at reviews from many magazines and also trolls for user reviews. Very smart. Here’s a quick list of recent scanner reviews that would have taken hours to get: *…
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Ultralight Business Travel: Your Travel Bag
Ultralight backpacking seems to be all the rage as is ultralight equipment in bicycling. I don’t see why there isn’t the same trend as people slep bags from one end of the world to the other. The technology is getting better all the time, but I see all kinds of folks dragging gigantic laptops, huge…
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good piece on filters
Filters. very confusing what to use now that photoshop exists. Two most interesting are a haze filter and a polarizer. I have a UV filter on all my lenses. He says B+W or Nikon are best, but Tiffen is half the price and probably OK. Don’t get ultracheap filters though.
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35mm Film Reviews
Edward C. Nemergut Photography. I’m buying another batch of 35mm film. Used 9 rolls of Fuji Superia-X ISO 400 film for nature and portrait photography. Results were Ok for the landscapes (mainly shot with a really neat 70-200 lense), but what was outstanding were the outdoor portraits (particularly on those overcast days in Alaska). Many…
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Quote of the Day (Stage 17)
Tour de France – Daily Scoop (Stage 17). _Those Texans can be so endearing_ bq. “I said to him, ‘How bad do you want to win a stage on the Tour de France?’ and he said, ‘Real bad.’ I said, ‘How fast can you go downhill?’ and he said, ‘I can go downhill real fast’.…
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Lance is a stud…Bike Lust continues
What about that Texan. An incredibly classy day today and I’m even more impressed with how hard those guys at the Tour De France work. And, for those of us looking for the perfect mountain bike, perusing Cycling news gives us the new Klein Palomino XV based on the Tuner Monoshock.