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I’ve lost 60K miles so far from American and BA and others when they expire miles. Here’s how to prevent that sort fo stuff: United. The best way is to donate 1000 miles to charity American. Donate 250 miles to charity If it is too late, if you pay money,…

Well, folks told me to try lightroom and I will, but for right now using best of breed tools, here is my current workflow: Shoot in raw and produce .CR2 files Download to the Mac and put each days worth of .CR2 into a set of folders that are :Year:Year-Month:Year-Month-Date,…

Great stuff that you can find on WSJ: Itemizing your home for insurance and disasters. The sites they recommend are knowyourstuff.org, stuffsafe.com Tracking your mileage points. gomiles.com, mileport.com

Well the resources are really improving. I’ve been using Qingwen on the iPhone, Chinesepod for audio and Chinesedict online, but a quick search shows there are lots more now. Like http://popupchinese.com/chinese/news And lots of reviews like http://learn-chinese.mychinastart.com/

This is a box that takes cable input and then distributes over your internal network to various network devices. So that for instance you can watch anything on say Comcast from your iPad 2 or from your Windows PC. Sadly these appear to be the only devices supported right now.…

Wel gizmo’s are wonderful, I have a Chef’s Choice 120 and it is a great knife sharpener which Cooks Illustrated recommended, but here are some other choices: Chef’s choice 110. Is decent a step below the 120, but cheaper. City Kitchen’s carries the 115 which looks pretty close to the…

If you are really into it, don’t just use the JPGs that your camera produces, but take the literally raw output of the sensors and process it yourself. You get a lot more depth as JPGs support 8-bit color while most modern cameras actually take 12-14 bits color, so that…

My bubble is burst. My favorite reality shows are fake. Oh well, I guess I’ll go back to watching Youtube… Storage Wars Kitchen Nightmares. Controversy here, he did win a libel suit in 2006 saying he didn’t fake things. I actually saw the Dillon’s episode and if it was so unbelievably…

Haven’t been there in years but terrific place. Some notes or the early fall. For me anyway falls into three categories 1. Lighthouses. Nubble Lighthouse. Just inside Maine. On a mini island. Great views and if ur lucky y will meet Bill Hamilton painter. Two Lights. Great state park. And…