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NYT: Blogs – DealBook – Harvard, Private Eq So, my numbers are rough, very rough estimates — but the problem is apparent. In the short term, unless it boosts its liquid returns, Harvard is going to have to raise a lot in donations or eat up its liquid assets to…

At a hotel which blocks port 25. Of course, there is no way to find their SMTP server to send email. The solution is that many mail servers also accept mail on port 26, so you either have to find the SMTP server that works on the network (good luck).…

The last missing piece for the iPod Touch is a microphone plus headphone and then use Truphone or Fring and then use the $15 microphone

Apple – Support – Discussions – suddenly can t load iPhoto 08 again … What happened with me is that I was running iPhoto ’09 on a Hard Disk that was going bad. I decide to migrate the OSX boot to another volume, and then did a ‘migration’ of all…

I have an old pair of K2 Axis XP Pros from 8 years ago now and I’m getting clobbered in the moguls. So what’s a person to do? Upgrade skis of course 🙂 The conventional wisdom is that a mogul specific ski is narrow and also very flexible at the…

My buddy Jon needs a cool telescope. Also on my list. The new ones are so wonderful because they don’t need as Ed Ting says at scopereviews.com: If you are just starting out and aren’t sure if you are serious then a good pair of binoculars. 10x50s. This means 10x…

So these seem to be the two notebooks that http://blog.laptopmag.com/10-inch-netbooks-fight-for-dominance, so lets look at ASUS, MSI as the early leaders and Samsung and Acer as newcomers. Laptop Magazine did a shoot out. The net is that the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE scored highest except hard disk transfer time. In November…

I never have time for that anymore, but during dinner: Washington DOT uses twitter. How amazing and cool. Another way to get closure information. Now that is modern government. John told me that twitter is replacing RSS. Makes sense. Follow http://twitter.com/wsdot Never could get jailbreak to work. How frustrating. Couldn’t…

The last missing piece for the iPod Touch is a microphone plus headphone and then use Truphone or Fring and then use the $15 microphone