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Buying a camera: Nikon N80
An update from early February with more on accessories. Since last December, buying a 35mm camera has been on the list. So, now seems like a good time with the summer coming up. I’ve narrowed it down to a Nikon N80 (a.k.a. F80 outside the US). The price structure is interesting. To quote “Phillip Greenspun”:http://www.photo.net/nikon/n80,…
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State of the LAN Hardware
It’s been a while since I’ve studied the LAN hardware market, but it’s time now with all the many wireless standards coming out. The best overview I’ve seen comes from Small Net Builder Holiday 2002 Guide. This site BTW is amazing. Great reviews and tutorials. Other information includes: Router Reviews. It’s been a while since…
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Happy New Year!
Chinese New Year – 2003 is the Year of the Goat -2002 was Year of the Horse. Happy New Year. Here’s a great web page with lots of facts about it.
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Columbia Disaster
Saltire : Blogging by Steve MacLaughlin. A blog with all the details about the Columbia. Incredibly sad, our thoughts are with the friends and families of those that were lost. The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped. I love space travel I really do, but as I read pieces like this, I have to say it…
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Cannondale Bankrupt
From the Roadbike Rider newletter and Bicycling.com. How sad, hopefully, it means they stay in business as is. It is amazing that both Trek and Cannondale are still American companies. Speaking of Cannondale, the company filed for chapter 11 reorganization on Tuesday. It will be taken over by Pegasus Partners, one of its two largest…
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Mini-ITX
mini-itx.com – news. Adrian and John Ludwig both point out how cool these new small form factor motherboard are. I’m going to build a new PC for Connie and for work. Maybe this is the way to do it. I love the Shuttle, but it is still a toaster. Let’s go to a real notebook…
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Trillian: All purpose IM
Cerulean Studios’ Trillian. Recommended by Cnet.com, this is a great tool that integrates ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo and IRC all into a single client. No more running everyone’s IM client anymore. Neat.
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Career Thoughts
Questions: – When have you enjoyed your work the most? What are/were the circumstances? Well, I’ve been kind of lucky these last dozen years or so. I will say that until 1988, I was a year-a-job kind of guy. Just kept ripcording out of things that I couldn’t see make sense. But I got lucky…
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Email to Blog got easier!
DentedReality: PHP Implementation of the Blogger/MoveableType XML-RPC APIs. Thanks to Gary Burd for his tip about using the Blogger API to add this email to blog stuff. He suggested a search on blogger API PHP to find a library and darn if he wasn’t right. Here is one that I can work off off. Another…
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Linux for Windows users
Since I get asked to evaluate lots of Linux software in my new job, I thought I’d install Red Hat Linux 8.0 and see how hard it is to get it to work in a Windows world. The Linux folks have made great progress, but there is no easy transition/migration guide. I’m a little surprised.…