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Continue reading →: Portable Basketball Backboards
Well, the boys want a basketball hoop. Another great example of how trying a sport like B-ball creates a lifelong interest. Anyway, we don’t have room for a full hoop (although I tried lobbying for that!). Instead, a portable one seems like the ticket, but which one to buy? *…
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Continue reading →: Watching DVDs on Airplanes
So, we are off to Hawaii pretty soon and Connie asked me, how do we get a movie for the squirmy kids. Here are the options: * “Inflight Movies”:http://www.inmotionpictures.com/. This is one of those .com businesses like Netflix that don’t seem to make sense, but we’ve actually used quite a…
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Continue reading →: Call of Duty: 48 Hours Later
Well, I’ve gotten Call of Duty and gone through it. Nice thing is that in single player mode, it is fast to get through. It is one of those games that at first seems just completely amazing, but as I play more, I realize it is a very sophisticated Doom.…
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Continue reading →: Cute Digital Cameras: Buying a Pentax S4
Jennie is looking for a new digital camera for her trip to parts unknown. Some amazing ones are around now. She’s been looking at a bunch and as usual Pentax like every other consumer manufacturer has made a complete hash of the model numbers and names, so here is a…
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Continue reading →: Campaign Contributions
I was curious about how campaign funding works. Here are some fascinating facts and figures. I literally had no idea the numbers worked this way or that so much information was available online: * “Open Secrets”:http://www.opensecrets.org/. A good advocacy site with mainly facts and figures. Most amazing is to see…
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Continue reading →: Basecamp
“Basecamp”:http://www.basecamphq.com/. A simple web-based project management system. From a web-design company. There really is a big future in these kind of simple weblications. “Tong’s Basecamp”:http://tong.projectpath.com. I did a quick site, put Ludwig and Zagula on it with the usual user names and passwords. A nnice product that make it possible…
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Continue reading →: Hitachi 400GB hard drive
400GB Drive Announced. Since I’ve been doing lots of video editing on my little Shuttle box, I need a mountain of storage in a single drive. This 400GB IDE drive certainly fits the bill. It is basically the extremely fast 250GB drive but with two additional platters (each platter is…
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Continue reading →: Samsung 193P Review
Tom’s Hardware Guide Displays: LCD Comparison: 19″ monitors. Another review of 19″ monitors. This time the upcoming Samsung 193P comes out on top. Its still in preproduction and costs about $780, so it is expensive. One of the few monitors you might think about using for gaming (fast enough) and…
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Continue reading →: Why Athlon 64 Doesn't Overclock Well…but Wait, here comes the nForce Pro 250
AnandTech: PCI Speed and Overclocking: A Closer Look at A64 and P4 Chipsets . Connie’s Dad got an Athlon 64. It didn’t overclock very much. Just from 2.0GHz to 2.1GHz. This article explains why. The nVidia nForce-3 150 chipset is supposed to keep the PCI bus stable at 66MHz, but…
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Continue reading →: Bicyling in Hawaii
Well, I’ve been to Hawaii a bunch but never figured out how to really get a good ride in there. Here are some resources: * “The Bike Shop”:http://www.bikeshophawaii.com/. The big multi store chain. There is one right in Kailua on Oahu. They “rent”:http://www.bikeshophawaii.com/Rentals.htm the Specialized Allez for $110/week and you…
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