• Flexible Date Travel

    Flexible Dates. Here is Dad’s tool for flexible travel. YOu just select the length of stay to say San Francisco and then it shows you want the cheapest dates are. Pretty neat. The current lowest fare to San Jose for instance is $144 roundtrip! “Europe Travel”:http://www.expedia.com/daily/vacations/europe/flights-cars.asp?rfrr=-33044. These are their special…

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  • Airfares

    It has gotten incredibly complicated (vs. easier) to find the lowest fares. The days of just typing into Expedia are over. Here’s how we do it and ironically, we ended up on Expedia but who knows: * “Expedia”:http://expedia.com. This is the place to start for vacation travel mainly because they…

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  • Great Books

    Alex has just been reading up a storm. Here are some of his quick reviews of good books to read. He’s been tending towards fantasy and dragons and I have to say these are terrific if not already widely read, here are his most recently read with reviews: * “Artemis…

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  • The Sims

    TheSims2.com – Home. finally a modern game that Grace can love. This lets you basically play “dress up” on the computer. You can give clothes to a family, plan a picnic, etc. The neatest thing is that The Sims plugs into Sim City, so that they can live in a…

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  • Via Luke

    mini-itx.com – news – VIA launches “Luke” Platform VIA today launched their “Luke” Corefusion Processing Platform at the Embedded Systems Conference 2005 in San Francisco, California. Luke combines both an EdenT-N CPU and CN400 Northbridge into one convenient aluminium package, reducing board real estate beyond Nano-ITX dimensions. This thing would…

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  • X-bit labs – Hardware news – Venice and San Diego Already around the Corner. The first announcement stated that the current D0 revision will be replaced with the new E3 revision for the following CPUs that are the transition from Newcastle -> Venice that will start shipping April 4: *…

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  • Lance out Paris-Nice

    ThePaceline.com – Lance News Item Following the conclusion of today’s third stage of Paris-Nice, Johan Bruyneel, the sports manager of the Discovery Channel pro cycling team, announced that Lance Armstrong will not start Thursday’s fourth stage of the race. “Lance woke up this morning with a sore throat and with…

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  • Machine Check

    STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x00000000, 0xb2000000, 0x00020151) …. Once I turned off automatic reboot, this is the error I got on the DFI GME855-MGF. What it means in short is that the Pentium processor threw a specific exception (Machine Check Exception) meaning that it detected there was an internal CPU-specific error.…

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  • Summer Camps

    There are as many camps as there are kids. Right now, I’d say that you are just missing the summer camp season. The main resource for this is the annual open house at St. Thomas. Was last month though. _You can also find this post at https://richtong.net_ Connie’s approach to…

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