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  • Recession in the US

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    Henry Blodget: Why This Recession Will Be A Doozy The last recession was mild. The stock market and corporate profits tanked, but consumer spending–long the major engine of our economy–danced merrily on through. In recent decades, it has ever been thus: bearish analysts and strategists have been underestimating the voracious…

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  • Exposure Metering on Canon 350D

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    When you are shooting sports photos, the normal mode for the Canon 350D is pretty useless. It is by default set to according to the “tutorial”:http://creativekarma.com/ee.php/weblog/comments/exposure_modes_on_the_rebel_xt/ 1. Program. which means it chooses the aperture and speed automatically. This is usually too slow for sports where you want it to be…

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  • Qanta A380

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    Qantas A380 maiden flight to Los Angeles | NEWS.com.au The inaugural A380 service left Melbourne at 11.15 AEDT, and is scheduled to land in Los Angeles at 7.30am local time (1.30am Tuesday AEDT), where it will receive a star-studded welcome from Qantas Ambassador John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Los Angeles…

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  • Calling to Japan

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    How frustrating that the Japanese don’t use GSM anywhere. Right now there is not way to use your cell phone in Japan unless you won a Nokia N95 series or unless you have a 3G phone. I actually got my iPhone 3G to roam there, but couldn’t make any calls.…

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  • Cooper Mini Convertible

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    http://www.miniusa.com/#/build/configurator/mini_convs-m now that is a cool looking car. 2009s are just coming out

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  • Jongo good for addressese

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    Every want to know how to pronounce an address like where the “Lakeville Regency”:http://local.jongo.com/yp/poi.do?pid=26150 is. Here is a good way to do it. Has both the pronunciation, the pinyin and the english names.

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  • Dialing code

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    Wow, I can never remember how to dial from China to the US (001) is the answer, but “howtocallabroad.com”:http://howtocallabroad.com has the general list.

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  • Sequoia slides

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    Well, someone posted the Sequoia slide <div style=”width:425px;text-align:left” id=”__ss_648808″><a style=”font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;” href=”http://www.slideshare.net/eldon/sequoia-capital-on-startups-and-the-economic-downturn-presentation?type=powerpoint” title=”Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn”>Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn</a><object style=”margin:0px” width=”425″ height=”355″><param name=”movie” value=”http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sequoia-1223625495238287-9&stripped_title=sequoia-capital-on-startups-and-the-economic-downturn-presentation” /><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/><param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always”/><embed src=”http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sequoia-1223625495238287-9&stripped_title=sequoia-capital-on-startups-and-the-economic-downturn-presentation” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed></object><div style=”font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;”>View SlideShare <a style=”text-decoration:underline;”…

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  • What is the future?

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    < !http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AN227B_MARKE_NS_20081009223754.gif> Where will the market go. The thing that is wrong about the chart is that it is not inflation adjusted, the 1970s chart is really straight down on a real basis.

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  • 1970s

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    !<http://mises.org/images3/Dow65-84.gif! For some reason the 1970s don’t have a fancy label although I remember stagflation. Like the depression, it all started with the 1960s which featured massive deficit spending (to fund the Vietnam War, sound familiar) and loose monetary policy to reduce the sting of the deficit (sound familiar) but…

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