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Disk Drive recommendations
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Continue reading →: Disk Drive recommendationsCan it be that another quarter has passed. Here again are the recommendations for the best hard drives to buy. It basically is that you should get the WD740GD for system drive, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 ATA-100 for your data drive. If you are on a budget, then get the…
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Best CD-Rs, DVD+Rs and other consumables
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Continue reading →: Best CD-Rs, DVD+Rs and other consumablesOK, now that I’ve run out of consumables, here’s a good place to get them. Its actually hard to find an inexpensive place to buy this stuff, but you can try Yesmicro.com as well as thenerds.net. Verbatim has done consistently well in benchmarks for media, but it is a mess…
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Continue reading →: Guide Books
Well, its the start of the new year and it seems like we are planning travel like crazy. Here are some of the things we sue for planning: * “Seattle”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/17405/ref=br_bx_c_2_2/103-9763570-0061442. Amazon has a nice list of the best selling travel books. Travel is one area where having the book ranking…
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Been listening to…
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Continue reading →: Been listening to…With all the great new artists out there and the Internet, it sure is easier to find some great new folks to listen to. Lately, I’ve been gravitating towards alternative artists like: * NPR : Vienna Teng, Live at NPR. One of the few folks I learned about reading the…
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iTunes and Pepsi Promotion
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Continue reading →: iTunes and Pepsi PromotionAbout.com : http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1270. Pepsi is doing a big giveaway where if you find the right bottle top, you can get a free iTunes song. Here’s a good post in about.com that explains how to tell if the bottle is the right one: # You find a bottle that has a…
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Predicting Your Own Weather
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Continue reading →: Predicting Your Own WeatherNWS Seattle . It is kind of amazing how the Internet lets you do so many things 🙂 Connie pointed out to me that if you wanted to see if it was raining when we go biking, just jump on the National Weather Service Forecast office rain radar and voila.…
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Browser reviews…
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Continue reading →: Browser reviews…Well I know most folks use Internet Explorer, but I’ve spent a little bit of time using some alternative (non-traditional browsers). Here’s a quick review, in order of preference: * “Opera”:http://opera.com. Definitely the geeks choice. Features that I love are: a) it has panes, so you can multiple web pages…
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Continue reading →: How to Change the World
“How to change the World”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195138058/qid=1078375029//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-4363506-2466406?v=glance&n=507846. I’ve been pretty fatigued on charitable giving. Done the board thing, seen how hard it is to change things and also how hard it is when non-profits become an end unto themselves (that is, where maintaining employment is more important than the cause). Anyway, “SVP”:http://www.svpseattle.org/…
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Athlon 64 Optimizations
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Continue reading →: Athlon 64 OptimizationsIts been hard to find code optimized for the Athlon 64. Here were some threads I found on the topic as folks struggle to do this: * mersenneforum.org – Creative ways to achieve Athlon 64 / Opteron optimization * “AMD64 Optimized”:http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9485_9488^9563^9598,00.html. The small list of folks doing 64-bit optimizations. Biggest…
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DVDInfo
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Continue reading →: DVDInfodvdinfopro.com – Home Page. Great utility for figuring out what DVD you really have and also to figure out what the media code is so you know if the media you have is reliable.
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