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Tong Family Visiter Changes
It’s interesting to see how site statistics have been changing. Initially most of the hits on this home page were from the default home pages for my many machines, so the referrers were often tongfamily.com or none. I now get about 20,000 hits per month, so not that many, but most were from google as…
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The Matrix and the Matrix Reloaded
I really wanted to just love the Matrix Reloaded. It was a good movie, but not a great one IMHO. I just rewatched the original Matrix and I can see why. The original was filled with mystery. First versions can be. It wasn’t clear what was real and what was a dream. Who was good…
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Buying a Touring/Commuting/Crosscycle Bike
I’ve been looking for my second bike. I love my Trek 5900, but it isn’t that practical for all the other things. Fortunately, Steve Hooper told me about Adventure Cycling Association. Here is what I found out: “Buying a Touring Bike”:http://www.adv-cycling.org/features/buyabike2003.cfm. A great comprehensive piece. There is not much on touring in mainline publications like…
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Won the War, Losing the Peace
Passion for PeaceA great piece by Friedman as usual. The Rumsfeld doctrine of small-force, high-tech armies may be great for winning wars, but you need the Powell doctrine for winning the peace: a massive, overwhelming investment of soldiers, police and aid. We should be flooding Iraq with people and money right now. Start big and…
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Depressed: DVD Coasters Galore
ULead MovieFactory. I’m depressed. I used this thing to create a DVD movie. Now as I’m trying to duplicate 7 copies, I have 1 coaster (e.g., destroyed DVD+R) for everyone that is good. An obvious driver problem where in the middle of a copy, it gives up the ghost and hangs. I’m using an older…
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DDR400 is Here!
Well the next generation of hardware performance is here. There is the new lineup of Pentiums with hyperthreading and also a new set of motherboards based on the i875P and the i865P. Tom’s Hardware recommends getting an 865P motherboard and the 2.8 GHz Pentium IV. I’m on the way: * Tom’s Hardware Guide Motherboards &…
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dvd to divx backup
Well it’s been six months since I figured out the best way to backup DVDs. Here’s an update on what’s on the web now: * “Doom9.net Guide”:http://www.doom9.org/. This was the source I used before and learned about Gordian Knot. The site has only gotten better. It actually explains what you are doing while the other…
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Ode to Peta Jane
Alex is learning poetry. Here are some of his latest. First is a kind of neat form: Peta-Jane Awesome fun Busy helping caring Makes me very challenged Peta-Jane I had not heard of this form before, but it has the first and last line are the name of the person. The second line are two…
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T-Mobile $19.99 WiFi
Wireless Internet Access – T-Mobile HotSpots. Pricing is hitting the right range. Right now T-mobile offers a $20/month plan if you are T-mobile voice subscriber for Wifi access. Sign my up!
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Drowning in Wifi Signals
Doug’s Dynamic Drivel: A new Wi-Fi model. This problem of how power WiFi has been hotly debated in our shop over at “Geekfishing”:http://geekfishing.net. Basically if you have lots of 802.11 Wifi access points beaconing, you get unpredictable results as clients roam automagically from one to another. In our own offices, there are no less than…