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Wow, China wins 51 gold medals, by far higher than the US at 36. The overall standings were very close. US at 110 and China at 100. What is more significant IMHO is how concentrated the US medals are. Michael Phelps accounted for no less than 8 of the 36 gold that the US [...]

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What the heck is going on with networks. It is complicated as heck. Try Airgrab and iStumbler to try to figure out what it out there. Still haven’t figured a simple way to find out what is the channel and actual speed of the network a Mac client is running. I can see how to [...]

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Spent a day thinking about nothing but music in the US. Strange to just have a meeting about music in China and then go directly to the US. Interesting sites:

lala.com. Spirit of full disclosure we are investors, but what the heck kind of cool
nutsie.com. Ditto

Pandora. I haven’t played with it in a while. Same basic [...]

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On my Macbook, suddenly syslogd is running away. Seems like http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071030233438149 suggests that this is because of Tie Machine, even though I have it switched off. You can go and kill it with /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor and hopefully the new instance won’t go crazy.
In my case, I did this and the new syslogd is still going [...]

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Mobile twitter is cool. I can either text 40404 or use an iPhone client to update
Pineapple Grill Kapalua | Restaurant Map | Maui | Frommers.com
http://tinyurl.com/6zfbgu #
Learn something every day. Its cloud here because of Vog. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vog #
Drive to the Summit of Haleakala National Park is 2.5 hours http://www.vacationidea.com/maui/haleakaladrivesummit.html #
Sunrise at Haleakala is the plan tomorrow [...]

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