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Turns out you can get the Pure Digital Flip Video Camera for only $119 for a while at Amazon . I paid $144 just yesterday. Shoot. I bought this for The Wife's birthday because the babies are always doing something awesome and we have no easy way to capture
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I like my Nintendo Wii , although, so far it's been basically a $200 Tennis Simulator. The most fun is watching people play it for the first time. We had some friends over last week and they mentioned the Wii, and my wife said "you HAVE to try Tennis!"
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I fix other people's computers and IT problems all day, so the last thing I really feel like doing is fixing my own computer problems at home. My personal workstation decided to blue screen earlier in the evening which was nice. It was one of those blue
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A year ago I had a Sony Reader for a month and reveled in its awesome screen. It's true, in case you haven't heard, e-ink looks like paper. At least, as close to paper as anything that's not paper can look. I finally broke down and got an Amazon Kindle
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I've been a mess all weekend. Truly. I've been as stressed as I've been in my life, trying to learn a new technology deeply enough to teach it. It's one thing to learn a tech enough to be capable, but in my new role at Microsoft I'm feeling more of a
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As a remote worker going to meetings sucks. It sucks big time. Huge. Nothing is worse (from a work perspective) than listening to six faint voices over a speakerphone get work done while you struggle to remain relevant. Sometimes I can convince someone
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I've always wanted a little robot, maybe a dog or something that would wander around the house and be charming, but wouldn't require, ahem, care and feeding. I have enough trouble keeping myself and my family fed, the last thing I need is an actual animal
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We are finally out from under Comcast Cable and have just hooked up Verizon's new Fiber-Optic based FIOS TV . There's a long waiting list in my state, so I signed up in October and had it installed just this last week. We already had FIOS internet , with
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Anagram is this really slick tool that will convert generic selected text into Outlook contact records or appointments. I use the contacts feature every day multiple times a day. Here is the scenario - you know the insanely long signatures people put
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I've had on my list of things to blog about for a while a handful of products that I've come across one way or another that are just really cool. Some of them are things I've tried and subsequently bought and others are things that various companies have
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There's a lot of talk internally at Microsoft by users of Windows Home Server. Many have built them themselves and others have purchased or side-graded to an HP MediaSmart . I had noticed that my DIY (Do It Yourself) Home Server was noisy and HOT. Like
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Yesterday I received my HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server in the mail. There's two versions, the 500gig and the 1TB . I've been using WHS since Beta2 and was ready to tidy up my Frankenserver, which was largely a DIY (Do It Yourself) and I'd been having
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