Web site for a High School Band in Bellingham, Washington
Every couple of years I need to buy tires for my car. When it comes that time I call around to the various stores looking for a good price, I search the Internet, and ultimately go to Discount Tire. They are not always the cheapest but they have several examples over their competition.…
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You can now sync your Google calendar with iCal. This is great. It greatly simplifies the question of how to sync multiple computers. Now you can think of calendaring like IMAP mail. That is you can use any computer to see your stuff.…
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I’ve been hearing a lot about how wonderful Drobo is. It is the prefect tool for backing up a lot of data in a safe and redundant way. If you have multiple terabytes of data that you cannot afford to loose, you have no excuse, get a Drobo.…
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Barenaked Ladies played a private concert at Yerba Buena Gardens for the WWDC Bash — formerly known as the Campus Bash. Every year Apple schedules a band and keeps it a secret until they take the stage. Prior year bands have included the Wallflowers and Ozomatli.…
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This week at WWDC Apple announced the replacement for .Mac called MobileMe. With this change comes a new graphical UI on the web page, hooks for Windows and Mac users, and the new domain name(s). Apple has bought mobileme.com and me.com.…
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So you have your new iPhone or iPod Touch and you want to watch a movie. You have to find a way to hold your screen at just the right distance and in the right rotation. You end up holding your phone in your hand in the claw posture.…
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I a am sucker for techno-trillers so the plot for Untraceable intrigued me. It was not enough to get me to go to the theater to see it but I did rent it from NetFlix when it came out on DVD.…
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A web site for the re-sale of industrial lift equipment. The challenge on this site was to create an existing site with an existing design and turn it into a dynamic site with a product database. The user can now edit products in the database in real time.…
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I had my first experience making homemade sushi this weekend for my daughter’s school project. I had the rolling mat and directions from a book but I had never made
maki before. I found a kid-friendly recipe and headed off to the store.…
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I just finished watching
Into the Wild. It has been out for a while but I am finding it harder to sit down and just watch movies and TV anymore. I wanted to watch this one because I had heard good things and I also liked the soundtrack.…
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After a nearly catastrophic experience with a LaCie drive I was once again back in the market to buy a 1TB hard drive. I have about 750GB of stuff that I need to backup on a regular basis. The LaCie was working perfectly until it just stopped.…
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