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iTunes and Pepsi Promotion
About.com : http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1270. Pepsi is doing a big giveaway where if you find the right bottle top, you can get a free iTunes song. Here’s a good post in about.com that explains how to tell if the bottle is the right one: # You find a bottle that has a yellow top. Diet Pepsi, Pepsi…
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Predicting Your Own Weather
NWS Seattle . It is kind of amazing how the Internet lets you do so many things 🙂 Connie pointed out to me that if you wanted to see if it was raining when we go biking, just jump on the National Weather Service Forecast office rain radar and voila. Give it a try!
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Browser reviews…
Well I know most folks use Internet Explorer, but I’ve spent a little bit of time using some alternative (non-traditional browsers). Here’s a quick review, in order of preference: * “Opera”:http://opera.com. Definitely the geeks choice. Features that I love are: a) it has panes, so you can multiple web pages open at the same time…
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How to Change the World
“How to change the World”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195138058/qid=1078375029//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-4363506-2466406?v=glance&n=507846. I’ve been pretty fatigued on charitable giving. Done the board thing, seen how hard it is to change things and also how hard it is when non-profits become an end unto themselves (that is, where maintaining employment is more important than the cause). Anyway, “SVP”:http://www.svpseattle.org/ sent us this book. Inspiring…
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Athlon 64 Optimizations
Its been hard to find code optimized for the Athlon 64. Here were some threads I found on the topic as folks struggle to do this: * mersenneforum.org – Creative ways to achieve Athlon 64 / Opteron optimization * “AMD64 Optimized”:http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9485_9488^9563^9598,00.html. The small list of folks doing 64-bit optimizations. Biggest names are probably America’s Army…
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DVDInfo
dvdinfopro.com – Home Page. Great utility for figuring out what DVD you really have and also to figure out what the media code is so you know if the media you have is reliable.
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Cool DVR from Scientific-Atlanta
a little ludwig goes a long way: Super DVRs. Wow, Ludwig finds an article about DVRs that will let you preview three streams and record a bunch of others in the background.
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Offshoring
a little ludwig goes a long way: Tom Peters on Offshoring _Hat tip to John Ludwig on this_ Some great thoughts on offshoring that makde tons of sense. All kinds of ideas, but the biggest one is the service jobs that are going away. The Americans’ unearned wage advantage is going away is probably the…
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Best Linux live boot from a CD review
“Linux boot from CD”:http://desktops.linux.com/desktops/04/02/09/1840218.shtml. Great review of different distributions that boot from a CD and then use either the hard disk or a USB key fob for storage. Interesting that Slackware has done a version that boots in less than a minute. It’s called “Slax”:http://slax.linux-live.org. Interesting BTW, that Knoppix is 600MB loaded with junk, but…
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Magic, Magic, Magic everywhere
“Magic”:http://www.wizards.com/magic/ has become Alex’s favorite game. I have to say, I can see why, it certainly is addicting. The fact there are so many different decks means that the games are really totally different. Pretty different from other games where they get to be more or less the same. Right now he’s a magician with…