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Continue reading →: Making your peace while driving in heavy rains
I’m not usually a scaredy cat, but I have to admit yesterday while slamming through heavy rains on the highway, I did have the chance to do some mental calculations. So why is it so bad to do the speed limit (65-70 mph) while there are heavy rain? By heavy,…
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Continue reading →: Black Friday shopping
Well, it’s thanksgiving and now its time to do some shopping. Everyone is standing in line, but it is incredible what you can buy online, so here is a list of best of’s: Big Agnes UL3 Tent. The Big Agnes 3UL is the lightest tent for 3 people that you…
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Continue reading →: Protected: November 2011 Lakeside Orchestra
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Continue reading →: Noodles. Noodles
Good noodles places in Seattle courtesy of the Seattle times. Ba bar. Capitol hill. Bang Hoi heaven. Hue dumplings handmade. 550 12 Ave. 206-328-2030 Il corvo. Hillclimb. The best lunch pasta ever. Northwest tofu. Central district. Tofu noodles. Yum! 1913 S Jackson. Ting momo. Tibetan dumpling. Yum! Southlake union. 310…
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Continue reading →: Firewire vs. USB vs. eSATA
Well I have an old Seagate 1TB drive I’ve been using to store photos mainly on my photoediting workstation. Been using USB as this thing from Seagate has mini-USB, firewire and eSATA. The iMac has USB and Firewire, but the pins are different. The iMac looks like it has Firewire…
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Continue reading →: Chinese learning…
For learning Chinese, I’m using Qingwen on the iPhone quite a bit. It has really good recognition, but mainly it has word lists which are great. It also gives example phrases and the ability to use Handwriting for Chinese is terrific. On the Mac, there are a host of resources…
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Continue reading →: Wifi channels which are the best…
Lots have been written about the best channels to use on 2.4GHz. The short word is that in a big installation you want to use channel 1, 6 and 11 as these are the only non-overlapping channels. So in say a big house, you’d want the basement atl channel 1,…
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Continue reading →: Airport Extreme Firmware 7.6
Ugh, I did this update and all seemed fine, but reports are that it does cause problems. An Airport Extreme 3rd generation and a Time Capsule 1st generation kept hanging at the steady amber. Finally, just went back to 7.5.2. This is actually quite hard to do. here are the…
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Continue reading →: Interesting things on the web…
Well in no particular order, some truly cool things on the web: iTunes Match. Wow, this works amazingly well! Just spend the $25, it recognized 19 thousand plus tracks in my itunes and I can download any play list onto my iPhone, iPad, Mac or Windows machine. Wow, that is…
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Continue reading →: Best credit cards for miles…
Well there seem to be two choices. First are the cards that just give you dollarls back and then the second are award cards. Personally, I have an older card, the United Visa Select because it gives you 3x miles for trips booked with United or Continental which is great…