• Tour de France on the Web

    OK, some amazing ways to catch the Tour de France other than on a TV: * Wireless Sign-Up 2004 Tour de France – 14:28:42 GMT. This gets you results texted to your cell phone * “Listen Live”:mms://adv.mirrorimage.net/event/mimg/evt20040702/audio. This link works if you have Media Player. It uses the mms: link…

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  • Camera Bags

    Been looking for a good camera bag that will fit a 35mm SLR and a long lense. Lowepro seems to have many good choices here including according to: * “Photo.net”:http://www.photo.net/equipment/bags/. As usual, the best reviews are here. Phil really likes the Tamrac bags though. Loves the huge Lowepro Trekker AW.…

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  • PC Buying Guide

    These Anandtech buying guides are just awesome. Rather than writing my own, I’ll just do the difference in opinion I have compared with their analysis: h2. High end See AnandTech: Buyer’s Guide: High End System – July 2004 for base recommendations. Here are the deltas to get a machine cost…

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  • AnandTech: Western Digital’s Raptors in RAID-0: Are two drives better than one?. I was going to get a pair of 74GB 10Krpm drives in a RAID-0 to just get screaming desktop performance. Indeed, it does look like that RAID-0 double actual disk throughput, but because a single drive also has…

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  • Laptop Lust

    Sony VAIO VGN-X505VP Review. So it costs $3,700. This is the utlimate machine. Thinner than a quarter, it has DVD, 1.1GHz Pentium M, 512MB Ram.

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  • Great Photo Processing

    Film Processing, Photographic Lab, Printing – A&I Photographic Lab. Just a note, after a year of use, we really love A&I’s photo processing. With a year or so to go until I go digital, this has been a nice compromise. Get a wonderful 35mm camera (Nikon N80) and some great…

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  • Driver license times

    Drivers Field Office Information. Hey, they even put the time you have to wait for a drivers license on the web. How cool is that!

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  • Tour de France is here!

    Well, its Tour de France time and the fever over here is high. Lots of bikers hanging out here. Here are some great places to look by google pagerank: * “Official TdF site”:http://www.letour.fr/2004/us/index.html. The official site. Wow, it all begins this Saturday if you can believe it! This site is…

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  • Fountain Pump

    Fountain pump – Little giant model 369 – free shipping. OK, here’s the power of the Internet for you. My Dad’s fountain pump broke and it is one google query to find this site that has about every pump in the world.

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  • GPS Update

    Took a basic navigation class today and realized I’m under gadgeted on marine hardware, so here’s an update: * GPS Receiver Information, Software, and Hardware Reviews of Garmin, Lowrance, Magellan and other GPS Receivers. This is the most amazing site. I used it two years ago to pick a Magellan…

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