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Bike Lust: Titanium Ritchey Break-Away
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Continue reading →: Bike Lust: Titanium Ritchey Break-AwayFive components that caught Andrew’s attention _Here’s #5 that caught Velonew’s attention at Interbike 2003. Man what I wouldn’t give to have a Titanium Ritchey Break-Away with Dura-Ace 10 components and have it weigh 17 pounds_ 5. Ritchey BreakAway Ritchey’s new foldable BreakAway bikes are full size, standard geometry steel…
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Incredible Traffic
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Continue reading →: Incredible TrafficSite Meter – Counter and Statistics Tracker. I can’t quite believe it. I think the statistics must be wrong. In any case, I use Sitemeter to record page views and visits and have some history there. In July, I changed Sitemeter to record all hits across all pages of my…
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A weekend in LA
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Continue reading →: A weekend in LASpent a great weekend in LA escorting Connie to her class reunion. Here were some sites and things to do: * Universal Studios Hollywood movie theme park Los Angeles L.A. CA. Hadn’t been to Universal Studios in a long time. Say 20 years. Man, how has it changed. I highly…
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Intense Spider XVP Desire
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Continue reading →: Intense Spider XVP DesireJohnny Vanderlinden 20Lb. Spider. Well, Brad and I both agree the Intense Spider XVP is the bicycle to lust after. HEre is a one that is just twenty pounds. The frames are super hard to get. List for $1950 and Brad says they are backordered 3,000 frames. All handmade in…
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International Calling to the US
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Continue reading →: International Calling to the USOK, I just went to the UK and Germany and realized that even with a wonderful world phone, it is very expensive to call given the roaming charges. Here are the ways around that: * CogniCall Long Distance Calling Card. This is an international long distance calling card. Nice thing…
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Handy Currency Converter
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Continue reading →: Handy Currency ConverterUniversal Currency Converter(tm) I was on an Australian site looking at Panel PCs and was reminded that most folks don’t know about this great currency converter.
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Blog Spam
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Continue reading →: Blog SpamHOw depressing, the spammers have figured out how to spam a blog. That’s why I’m getting a dozen comments a day from folks who sell viagra and then use the backlink feature to link me to their site. Sad, I’m going to have to turn off comments pretty soon as…
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Great places in London
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Continue reading →: Great places in LondonThanks to “Adrian”:http://smithstuff.net, I have at least a few places in London that make life easier for the frugal business guy. A little accidental tourist, but here are some places: * “Hilton Green Park”:http://www.londontown.com/LondonHotel/Hilton/Hilton_Green_Park. This is a small hotel near the center of London. Not a mega hotel, but 18…
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Skype and NAT tunnelling
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Continue reading →: Skype and NAT tunnelling_A discussion of Voice-over-IP and a good explanation of why folks needs something that penetrates firewalls_ Skype Firewall and NAT (Network Address Translation) traversal: Non-firewalled clients and clients on publicly routable IP addresses are able to help NAT’ed nodes to communicate by routing calls. This allows two clients who otherwise…
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Windworks is Great!
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Continue reading →: Windworks is Great!Windworks Sailing Center. Connie and I just did the second round of classes on sailing over there. They have a really great series called “Adventure”:http://www.windworkssailing.com/adventure_lessons.htm Lessons where you don’t have to sit a class room and have the instructor say, please say “PORT” class, and you say, “PORT”. Instead, you…