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Binoculars
Leupold Wind River Katmai Binoculars. We’ll be headed out to Alaska pretty soon this summer so time to get some equipment to really enjoy it. We had a cheap set of compact binoculars but lost them. Also have a nice image stabilized set for boating. In looking at Outside Magazine, they rated these Katmai’s as…
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Marketing is Not Mystery Meat
Marketing Playbook. Well, folks have been saying heck, why don’t you write down all the stuff you’ve learned. Well, thanks to John Zagula, a few hard earned lessons on marketing are now going into print this fall. Check out the Marketing Playbook if you are interested in figuring out this crazy thing called marketing. No,…
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Atom vs. RSS
XML Syndication Supporters Mulling W3C Move. I’ve never gotten to understand the deep issues in this debate. XML is so easy to read (check the RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds on this Blogs as an example), but maybe time to start thinking about it. Some folks like “Steve Gillmore”:http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1413403,00.asp have argued that RSS and…
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Textpattern Installation
_Don’t you love those packages that don’t stick a how to install somewhere up front. Here’s what I’ve been able to glean: # Textpattern Support Forum / I am lost Help!!!. Download textpattern_g118a, unzip it (I’m assuming you’re on Windows.) Set up a MySQL database w/ your host (mine had cPanel which let me set…
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Blogger Coding
the blogger code. Fun idea, take a survey and summarize how nerdy you are with a code. Mine is bq. B8 d++ t+ k++ s u f+ i o+ x e+ l+ c– FWIW, reminds me that I once taught Connie LISP, so know when she says bq. (geekp) I can answer bq. t And…
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Moblogging: WAP and SMS Blog Entry
“Joi Ito’s Resource”:http://radio.weblogs.com/0114939/outlines/moblog.html#. Joi Ito has a great list of applications that allow you to take SMS and push it via an email interface onto a blog. wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Hey in the course of installing all these new blogging tools, I was reminded of…
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Quick Review of MT Alternatives
Here is some deeper drill downs base on comments on Movable Type RIP | Metafilter. Folks realy like WordPress (only manages a single blog though), ExpressionEngine, b2evolution, textpattern. NEed to check them out. Others are Pivot, but the top votes are WordPress and ExpressionEngine, so here are notes about each and I’ll put up trial…
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Sony Fires Back
Ars Technica: Sony unveils music player to unseat the iPod’s dominance. Well I’ve been thinking about getting an iPod Mini, fortunately more choices are arriving. The new Sony VAIO Pocket VGF-AP1 (boy, they love those long names) sounds pretty cool. Main issue I’m sure is that it uses a strange format called ATRAC3 that I…
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Democracy and India
Democracy triumphs over conventional wisdom in India? | Metafilter. Amazing to me, but sometimes good does win over xenophobia. The fact that the BJP lost in India to the Congress is an amazing thing.
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Cool new Laptops
Well, my trusty Compaq N600c is now dead (it doesn’t recognize batteries) and my old Toshiba 3440 gave up the ghost long ago. I thought for a while I didn’t need a laptop, but what to do on business trips, so in the market for new ones: * Two Hot VAIO Laptops States-Bound: X505 and…