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  • PC Buying Guide for Fall 2004

    Well, it had to happen, folks are asking me what to buy for this fall season. Here are recommendations by category (assuming you are building up your own box). Here’s a summary: h4. For Power Users The Athlon 64 3200+ in a Shuttle SN85G4 barebones system with ATI Radeon 9600 XT or nVidia FX 5700…

  • BIOS Optimization

    Adrian’s Rojak Pot Bios Optimization Guide. I’ve never understood all the BIOS settings. Here’s a guide to the over 200 different things you can now tune in your PC. Wow.

  • San Diego Fire

    October Fire Scripps Ranch San Diego, CA Photos. An incredible fire. Here are some images from Scripps Ranch that I found incredible given I’ve been so close to neighborhoods like this while visiting San Diego.

  • Amazon Ego-Surfing

    Joi Ito’s Web: Ego-surfing on Amazon search inside the book. Joi Ito points out that you can now “ego-surf” on Amazon so you can see your name in books. They have indexed 120,000 books. So, I could resist. Here are searches for “Rich Tong”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=stripbooks&field-keywords=%22rich%20tong%22&search-type=ss&bq=1/102-7967833-8380932 at Amazon. Actually came up with three hits that I didn’t…

  • Lake Arrowhead coverage

    Joi Ito’s Web: Joseph Urbaszewski’s blog coverage Lake Arrowhead fire. BTW, a hat tip to Joi Ito for keeping track. There is also a scanner feed so you can hear fireman live. Wow.

  • Blogs are where the news live…

    Joseph Urbaszewski’s Weblog. We were talking about this at “work”:http://ignitionpartners.com today. Ib et folks that the best place to find news about the California fires would be on blogs. Joesphe is proving me right. How much more interesting than CNN!

  • Haiku for Windows

    _Hat tip for “Zagula”:http://zagula.com on this one_ In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They’re used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan: The Web site you seek Cannot…

  • Titanium Break-Away just a concept

    Five components that caught Andrew’s attention. It’s sad that one of the top five things that caught Velonews interest is just a concept. I asked Johannes over at Ritchey Logic (a great guy btw, answers email very quickly and is approachable in the extreme) and here is what he said. Sad to me they had…

  • Passion is a Competitive Advantage

    a little ludwig goes a long way: Rebecca always has good inspirational thoughts.. Rebecca Schwoch as noted by John seems to clip some great thoughts. His two favorite and mine, “no decision is a decision” and “passion is a competitive advantage.” Boy, am I living that right now in my current role as an investor…

  • Nikon N80 — Film Reviews (After 5 months)

    Nikon N80 body review (F80 outside of US). I’ve had this Nikon N80 for about five months. A good time to give it a review. First of all, I’ll move to digital eventually folks, but I have to say that it is kind of nice to have such an inexpensive high quality camera in 35mm.…