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It's started…one blog to read
Amazing. This is a blogger in Baghdad. Don’t think it is BS. A very interesting read… Where is Raed ?
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Mitsubishi Promise Module
More indepth look at the decision on getting the right over-the-air set-top-box. Here are relevant links: * Home Theater SPOT!. This is the debate about the Promise module for the Mitsubishi. It has an OTA tuner built-in, but costs $1K. Main advantage is the Firewire-5C for connecting with all digital copy protected settop boxes. *…
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Eve of War
Can’t quite believe that we are on eve of this war. Still glued to news.google.com. Lots of new on the internet of course. Most interesting things: * “Clare Short on Channel 4”:http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/03/week_3/18_goodman.html. Amazing turnabout. * “Tony Blair at House of Commons”:http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916790,00.html. Wow, is it me, or do the British politicians sound so much smarter. I…
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Home Theater Update
At least, I’m getting a few cycles in when not reading Google News. In any event, my mom and dad are moving into a new house and good ol’dad wants a great television setup. Here’s an update about this the latest to buy given it change so quickly h4. For Dad’s new Home Theater For…
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Military Driver License in Washington
The internet is an amazing place. I somehow got a hit from someone in the US Air Force who is shipping out soon. His Washington license is expired and he asked me of all folks what to do. Nice to be a geek and help someone who is really in the nation’s service. BTW, if…
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America to European Comparison
American vs. European Compairson If you ignore the tone of the piece and just look at the statistics, they sure are interesting. Birthrate differences, productivity, spending difference between the USA and the EU are pretty striking. Here’s a Harpers Index view of the article where he makes four points:
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Spaming blog comments
How depressing. Can you believe that someone has written a program to do this. I’m getting consistent spam comments now. Too bad. Another thing spoiled by spam.
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Help! I'm a news junkie!
I curse “Google News”:news.google.com a thousand times. It updates itself every 5 minutes or so with the top stories from around the world. This is going to become a pro- vs. anti-debate for me, its just about getting all the facts about what is happening. I’ll look for things that you wouldn’t ordinarily see. For…
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Thomas Friedman
Chicken ? la Iraq. Thomas Friedman is so brilliant and depressing at the same time. I’ve become a total news junkie. Will be interesting to see what happens. This reminds me of the joke about the man who gets lost and asks a cop for directions, and the first thing the cop says is, “Well,…
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Scanners
An update from early February, now includes a review of 35mm film scanners. Just in from PMA 2003 is an announcement for a flat bed scanner, the Canon 9900F that has the resolution of a film scanner (2800 dpi) and anti-dust software. Could be a good compromise between a film and a flat bed. Will…