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Incredible Traffic
Site Meter – Counter and Statistics Tracker. I can’t quite believe it. I think the statistics must be wrong. In any case, I use Sitemeter to record page views and visits and have some history there. In July, I changed Sitemeter to record all hits across all pages of my blog. Here are the statistics:…
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A weekend in LA
Spent a great weekend in LA escorting Connie to her class reunion. Here were some sites and things to do: * Universal Studios Hollywood movie theme park Los Angeles L.A. CA. Hadn’t been to Universal Studios in a long time. Say 20 years. Man, how has it changed. I highly recommend the VIP tour. It…
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Intense Spider XVP Desire
Johnny Vanderlinden 20Lb. Spider. Well, Brad and I both agree the Intense Spider XVP is the bicycle to lust after. HEre is a one that is just twenty pounds. The frames are super hard to get. List for $1950 and Brad says they are backordered 3,000 frames. All handmade in California. The Santa Cruz Blur…
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International Calling to the US
OK, I just went to the UK and Germany and realized that even with a wonderful world phone, it is very expensive to call given the roaming charges. Here are the ways around that: * CogniCall Long Distance Calling Card. This is an international long distance calling card. Nice thing is that it is billed…
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Handy Currency Converter
Universal Currency Converter(tm) I was on an Australian site looking at Panel PCs and was reminded that most folks don’t know about this great currency converter.
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Blog Spam
HOw depressing, the spammers have figured out how to spam a blog. That’s why I’m getting a dozen comments a day from folks who sell viagra and then use the backlink feature to link me to their site. Sad, I’m going to have to turn off comments pretty soon as I can’t keep up with…
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Great places in London
Thanks to “Adrian”:http://smithstuff.net, I have at least a few places in London that make life easier for the frugal business guy. A little accidental tourist, but here are some places: * “Hilton Green Park”:http://www.londontown.com/LondonHotel/Hilton/Hilton_Green_Park. This is a small hotel near the center of London. Not a mega hotel, but 18 townhouses remodelled together to be…
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Skype and NAT tunnelling
_A discussion of Voice-over-IP and a good explanation of why folks needs something that penetrates firewalls_ Skype Firewall and NAT (Network Address Translation) traversal: Non-firewalled clients and clients on publicly routable IP addresses are able to help NAT’ed nodes to communicate by routing calls. This allows two clients who otherwise would not be able to…
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Windworks is Great!
Windworks Sailing Center. Connie and I just did the second round of classes on sailing over there. They have a really great series called “Adventure”:http://www.windworkssailing.com/adventure_lessons.htm Lessons where you don’t have to sit a class room and have the instructor say, please say “PORT” class, and you say, “PORT”. Instead, you read the book at home…
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Another Senseless Death…
Ken Kifer’s Bike Pages — bicycle travelogues, bike safety, bicycling advocacy, and cycling humor.. Sad to say, Ken got hit by a drunk driver while biking at home. An eclectic guy, sad to see. A great site he has/had.