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REI Deals
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Continue reading â: REI DealsHey, if you are buying lots of gear, now’s the time to do a few things. First, if you know an REI member, if you sign up this month for $20 fee, you get a 20% off for a non-sale item. So if you’ve been eyeing something that is $100,…
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Headphones
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Continue reading â: Headphones!>http://www.headphone.com/productphotos/small/0020331310_2560.jpg! After our most recent trip, nearly all of our earbuds have simply died. Usually, the little cable breaks, so what to do if you need a lot of these and they take abuse. “Headphones.com”:http://headphones.com has some of the best reviews I’ve seen. It is how I originally got the…
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Cracking Airport
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Continue reading â: Cracking AirportWell, this is sure confusing, I’m trying to get an older Snow Base Airport (not the Airport Extreme) to work right. Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5 comes with a new Airport Utility v5.2 to manage the Airport Extreme but not with the older Airports (code named Snow Base). In fact,…
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Continue reading â: God Dag. Kan du saga det igen
Seems like everyone who skis is Swedish sometimes, so good to know from “Speakswedish.co.uk”:http://speakswedish.co.uk some common phrases. I’ve no idea how to pronounce it, but “good day Sweden” seems like a good phrase to learn. When I was there, some other good ones are: | Swedish | English | |…
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Whistler Fun Stuff
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Continue reading â: Whistler Fun StuffBeside skiing (did you get your Edge card?), there are an amazing number of fun things to do: # “Sledding”:http://www.whistler4kids.com/fun_free.html. They actually let you sled down when the lifts are closed. You can get it at Village Hardware Store. Sled at the base of Lorimer Road and then walk across…
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Canadian roaming
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Continue reading â: Canadian roamingIf you get to Canada often then there are two options: # If you have AT&T then get the “AT&T Canada plan”:http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/roaming/affordable-world-packages.jsp#4, they have a $4/month plan where roaming in Canada is $0.59 per minute and any calls from the US to Canada are $0.19/minute while and text messages to…
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Flexcar now Zipcar
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Continue reading â: Flexcar now ZipcarSomeone was asking me about cars and how to manage them. Well, if you live in Seattle, you can actually rent a car for $10/hour. it is something called “Flexcar”:http://www.flexcar.com. You call a phone number or logon to the web, you reserve a car in any of most garages in…
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ISPs like Shaw block port 25 and break your email
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Continue reading â: ISPs like Shaw block port 25 and break your emailArgh, why do internet providers act so smart! Sometimes I can’t seem to send email and right now I’m discovering that this is because certain ISPs will block the SMTP port 25 (send mail) and 465 (secure send mail), so mysteriously at some access points, you can send mail and…
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