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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

Well, the folks have finally figured out how to unlock an iPhone 3G. You just have to make sure you *do not* upgrade to 2.2.1. You need firmware 2.2 with baseband 02.28.00. The source is at dev-team blog. The short notes are that it only works with the baseband you…

Well, I discovered my Volkl Six Stars are really racing skis with a nice logo on them. Incredibly stiff and stable, but stiff means impossible on moguls and 68mm waist means sinks everywhere but the groomed. Joe showed me how to ride them though. Their sweetspot is tiny and it…

There are lots of levels now that are on the boards when you want to talk ability. What do they mean? Here’s to everyone who is a level 7 with kids just behind who in a week go from 6 to 7- or are watching their kids go from 8-…

Thank goodness for fraud prevention software. Although it is a pain to always have to call the credit card companies. Yesterday, got a $2500 charge from some random site. Locked the account and getting a new card. Another reminder that you have to be careful and hope

Hey nothing like hanging out at the no. 1 resort in North America. (OK, folks from Jackson Hole, Killington, Mammoth, Snowbird, Snowmass, Squaw, Su Valley, Taos, Vail, etc. will argue about that), but a pretty darn good spot. In any case, being here during a massive recession with the Canadian…