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  • Wikka Wiki Tips

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    Starting to use Wiki’s and startting with Wikka Wiki. Don’t know if this is the right one, but “Bluehost.com”:http://bluehost.com has it as the first option. They don’t have mediawiki which is what Wikipedia uses. This one is OK except that it by default let’s anyone register and add content. Here…

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  • Yael Naim

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    “Yael”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael_Naim is a great example of how a commercial can make a success. Her song New Soul was picked by Steve Jobs for the introductory Mac Book Air commercial and on the strength of digital sales, she became the first Israeli singer to be an American top 10. Cool!

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  • American Double Miles

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    American Airlines is also offering lots of things like double miles and bonus for Chicago/Shanghai. You need to register, so go to http://www.aa.com/apps/netSAAver/ViewAAdvantageAirlineSpecials.jhtml and register away! And as a reminder United’s list is at http://www.united.com/page/middlepage/0,,1249,00.html and remember they have a double miles and most importantly, all flights on United Star…

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  • Long Windows Shutdown and Startup Times

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    Why does XP take so long to shutdown. Apparently, this is because during shutdown, Windows needs to make sure all user sessions are shutdown. They have a fix called “UPHClean”:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en which

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  • Phone Rates to China

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    It is amazing how rates have really fallen. Now with AT&T, calling a mobile number in China is $0.16 a minute. With “GlobalPhone”:https://www.gphone.com/myaccount/multirates.asp?glo=globalphone&aid2=GH15 as a low cost check, it is 7.6 cents per minute. That is 1 cent a minute to call a local access number (7038522111) and then 6.6…

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  • Double EQM Miles

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    United is having a promotion. If you register at http://www.united.com/promoreg?title=Double+EQM+Offer&pcode=MPD288 you get double miles between April and June!

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  • Administrative Assistants RU us

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    Wow interesting to see what passes for a job description on Craig’s List these days. Here’s a sampling of admin jobs: OFFICE MANAGER needed for great software company in Fremont!!! OFFICE MANAGER needed for great software company in Fremont!!! (Seattle) Reply to: job-643801913@craigslist.org Date: 2008-04-15, 4:57PM PDT Job Description: Rewarding…

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  • The Forbidden Kingdom (aka the Monkey King retold)

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    _Sorry for the strange post yesterday, WordPress configuration error in wp_config.php_ “The Forbidden Kingdom”:http://imdb.com/title/tt0865556/ (ÃĨŠŸÃĨ¤ÂĢäš‚çÅŊ‹ gong1 fu1 zhi1 wang2 or Kung FuÃĸâ‚Ŧâ„ĸs King) is now showing. Its a rip off of the Monkey King (“ÃĨ­â„ĸÃĻ‚ŸçŠÂē”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong sun2 wu3 kong4) from Journey to the West (“èÂĨÂŋÃĻ¸¸èŽ°”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West xi1 you2 ji4ïÂŧŒlit. western travel story).…

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  • iPhone pause

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    So one thing in the iPhone is how do you ask it to wait 2 seconds or pause. In the Blackberry, the exclamation point (!) means wait while in the iphone all there is a two second pause you get with a it is the comma (,) So for instance,…

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