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Blogrolling
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Continue reading â: BlogrollingI’m back to putting my blogs that I read on “tongfamily”:https://richtong.net so I lost all my “blogrolling.com”:http://blogrolling.com/top.phtml when templates changed, I’m reminded that I like looking that blogrolling top 500 to see what people are looking at.
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NWRSRS Ratings
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Continue reading â: NWRSRS RatingsThere is a new “website”:http://www.bjdy.com/juniorchess/search/index3.html that has the Northwest Scholastic Rating System in a searchable database. powered by performancing firefox
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Buffalo LinkStation Pro 500GB LS-500GL
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Continue reading â: Buffalo LinkStation Pro 500GB LS-500GL!<http://www.buffalotech.com/product-images/LS-GL-tn.jpg!:http://buffalotech.com The state of the art of Network attached storage has sure improved a lot since I got a Linksys NSLU-2 three years ago. Then, I couldn’t even get it to transfer 1GB worth of files and it cost $80 and I had to buy a $35 USB enclosure and…
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MacGuffin
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Continue reading â: MacGuffinCalvin was trying to figure out what a MacGuffin is and is the ring in Lord of the Rings a MacGuffin. It turns out that his definition wasn’t quite right, its a term from Alfred Hitchcock that refers to something that gets you into the plot but actually has nothing…
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Anything that Brad likes
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Continue reading â: Anything that Brad likesI’m going to like I think đ In any case, this is a modern Italian restaurant in midtown on 55th St, it is has a great location across from the big city theater. I was jet lagged after a 14 hour trip to get there, but the food did impress.…
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Boutique and centrally located
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Continue reading â: Boutique and centrally locatedHotels in NYC are outrageously expensive, but as hotels go, this one is quite nice mainly because it is right in the heart of midtown where you can usually find mega skyscrapers, but the boutiques are expensive. The room was very small, but the service was quite good. We had…
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They just got acquired but are even better
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Continue reading â: They just got acquired but are even betterI was reminded once again how much I like the Garden Court. It is right in the middle of Palo Alto and with the renaissance of the center there, there are fewer t-shirt shops and many more classy restaurants. The Garden Court is de rigour for the Stanford MBA events,…
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Elegant dining with terrific Lamb and Mediterranean
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Continue reading â: Elegant dining with terrific Lamb and MediterraneanI had a dinner with some folks there last week, it is right at Emerson and University in Palo Alto, so convenient to get to. They have a great wine list (which restaurants in tony Palo Alto don’t). Metroactive (http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.10.02/dining-0241.html) seems to have the best reviews of local Palo Alto…