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Let’s Talk.com. OK, it’s time to buy a cell phone given that the fall is arriving and discounts are coming. Need one for Connie, Me and my parents. Here’s a place to start chopping

FrontPage? Online Support – SiteCrafters Internet Services. It’s been bothering me how to put a simple password on my hosted web site. It’s actually quite easy to password protect if you have IIS on a machine where you control the directory since it integrates with NT authentication. But, what if…

The Dream Do-it-yourself PC. Hoops asked me to put together a dream machine for him. Here are the links for the smallest, but most functional machine I can imagine. Thanks to Tom’s Hardware” and C|Net for recommendations and Pricegrabber for the best place to buy things. If you’re interested, this…

BlackBerry Internet Edition. Connie uses a Blackberry Internet Edition by Aether. For some crazy reason, they don’t point to the home site of Aether, so you have to know the detailed information is at Blackberrybyaether.com. Nor do they tell you where the user interface is at No Comm Methods when…

Patty Griffin is getting to be one of my favorite artists. She has a great bootleg CD set. You can also get these tracks on kazaa. She’s at the Paramount in Seattle on October 19 BTW.

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist. Ok, I’ve been studying this search engine stuff. John Ludwig mentioned he can see how people get to his page. Here is Google’s list of top queries. A fun fact list. Interesting that Windows 98 and IE6 are the main ways that things get accessed.

Google PageRank explained. I’ve never understood the page ranking algorithm that Google has. This does a good job of demystifying it.

StorageReview.com Headline NewsHere it is, the next set of drives to get. Wow, 3-year warranties and up to 250GB. Drool on! The MaxLine Plus II adds a third platter to the firm?s 7200 RPM design to reach capacities up to 250 GB. The Plus also incorporates an 8-meg cache. Both…

StorageReview.com – Hardware, Benchmarks, Reviews, Reference, Research, and SurveysI’ve been pricing a do-it-yourself kit for Hoops. Here is a good place to get an overview on storage. I use Tom’s Hardware for just about everything else. The current leader is the Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB. I have one and it…

Ideal Wine Cellar Temperature and Humidity After a great weekend at the Inn at Langley, I realized I’m storing my wine at the wrong temperature. Here’s a recommendation from a wine storage company… Wine should be held at a temperature which assures its proper rate of maturity. It is generally…