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Tough problem: gotta buy a car

Well, my Honda Civic is looking like it is just going to give me more and more problems. I’ve got to get a new car. I’m down to two choices. Toyota Prius Honda Pilot What do you think? Based on … Continue reading

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Banking : ING Direct

Over the holidays, I made a few resolutions. One of them was to get a savings account for emergency funds. I took a look around and I opened an online account with ING Direct. They have a deal where you … Continue reading

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My next monitor: Dell 3007WFP

Here is a cache of the page that they took down. I have a Dell 24″ display right now. Overall, it is nice, but I need something even bigger. I regularly run out of room on even it. I think … Continue reading

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Debate at Work

Recently, I attended a BayCHI talk on the new direction in UI done by the Office 12 team (more on that in another post). We had a debate as to why Microsoft would take such risks with Office here and … Continue reading

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More screen shots of Vista

One of the beta sites has screenshots of the latest Vista build. It’s not too difficult to see that they cut out a lot (As predicted by Joseph). It’s just nicer chrome over a more polished drawing engine… but the … Continue reading

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Great Nature Photos

What do you get when you have a National Geographic photographer go out in the woods and they limit themselves to only one shot a day… some neat photos, that’s what. Check out this site Go down to ‘GALLERY’ and … Continue reading

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New Sun Proc

Ok, sun is definitely on the ropes and I don’t see myself buying any of their stuff. Still, this new UltraSPARC / Niagara processor is a refreshing new architecture choice that is actually shipping. It is cool to see this … Continue reading

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Stick with it…

Today, the buzz on the net is still Ajax. Just today, I was remembering a time about 4 years ago (around the time, my last child, KK, was born), I was working on a contract project as a Perl/Java guy. … Continue reading

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