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Continue reading →: Wiki markup
Each Wiki has a different shorthand for HTML unfortunately. “Splitbrain”:http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:markup_compare does a good job of comparing them and they aren’t the same at all. Some relevant ones for Wikka Wiki are: notextile.. //italic// __underline__ ##monospace## ++deleted++ ~quoted text %%source code%% —– _Gives you a horizontal rule_ https://richtong.net should work as…
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Continue reading →: Wikka Wiki Tips
Starting to use Wiki’s and startting with Wikka Wiki. Don’t know if this is the right one, but “Bluehost.com”:http://bluehost.com has it as the first option. They don’t have mediawiki which is what Wikipedia uses. This one is OK except that it by default let’s anyone register and add content. Here…
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Continue reading →: Yael Naim
“Yael”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael_Naim is a great example of how a commercial can make a success. Her song New Soul was picked by Steve Jobs for the introductory Mac Book Air commercial and on the strength of digital sales, she became the first Israeli singer to be an American top 10. Cool!
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Continue reading →: American Double Miles
American Airlines is also offering lots of things like double miles and bonus for Chicago/Shanghai. You need to register, so go to http://www.aa.com/apps/netSAAver/ViewAAdvantageAirlineSpecials.jhtml and register away! And as a reminder United’s list is at http://www.united.com/page/middlepage/0,,1249,00.html and remember they have a double miles and most importantly, all flights on United Star…
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Continue reading →: iPhone battery life
Jon has seen really short life on his iPhone. My own iPhone drained in literally two hours yesterday. Here is some advice from “Apple”:http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html on the problem: * You can look at Settings/Usage to see the “Time since last full charge” to get an idea of whether the thing is…
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Continue reading →: Long Windows Shutdown and Startup Times
Why does XP take so long to shutdown. Apparently, this is because during shutdown, Windows needs to make sure all user sessions are shutdown. They have a fix called “UPHClean”:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en which
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Continue reading →: Phone Rates to China
It is amazing how rates have really fallen. Now with AT&T, calling a mobile number in China is $0.16 a minute. With “GlobalPhone”:https://www.gphone.com/myaccount/multirates.asp?glo=globalphone&aid2=GH15 as a low cost check, it is 7.6 cents per minute. That is 1 cent a minute to call a local access number (7038522111) and then 6.6…
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Continue reading →: Double EQM Miles
United is having a promotion. If you register at http://www.united.com/promoreg?title=Double+EQM+Offer&pcode=MPD288 you get double miles between April and June!
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Continue reading →: Administrative Assistants RU us
Wow interesting to see what passes for a job description on Craig’s List these days. Here’s a sampling of admin jobs: OFFICE MANAGER needed for great software company in Fremont!!! OFFICE MANAGER needed for great software company in Fremont!!! (Seattle) Reply to: job-643801913@craigslist.org Date: 2008-04-15, 4:57PM PDT Job Description: Rewarding…
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Continue reading →: The Forbidden Kingdom (aka the Monkey King retold)
_Sorry for the strange post yesterday, WordPress configuration error in wp_config.php_ “The Forbidden Kingdom”:http://imdb.com/title/tt0865556/ (功夫之王 gong1 fu1 zhi1 wang2 or Kung Fu’s King) is now showing. Its a rip off of the Monkey King (“å™æ‚Ÿç©º”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong sun2 wu3 kong4) from Journey to the West (“西游记”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West xi1 you2 ji4，lit. western travel story).…
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