Author: Kupitero
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“War Driving” from Fremont to Reno, Nevada
During one of our trips to the gambling mecca this side of Nevada, we usually leave the house at around 7:00 in the morning. That normally allows us with enough time to make sure that someone had already heated up any one of our favorite nickel or penny slot machines, when we arrive. But, on…
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The Lusty Month of May (Sad It Is to Fiesta)
May is fiesta month in Manila. Streets will be crowded with people attending town fiestas. Will the merry month of May also herald the coming months – or, even years – of festivities in the country? Something to cheer and to be merry about? While jaded business traders may don’t care, the true investors really…
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The Netpliance hack parts….
The iOpener hack parts arrived via UPS a week after I had ordered them from an East Coast computer parts company. I could have also bought the parts locally -and cheaper – but I don’t like to bother with the hassle of assembling them – specially the 44-pin IDE cable for the laptop HD that…
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A Movable Type experiment
Blogs are becoming an easy way of having a presence on the web. Most of personal sites these days are blogs. TypePad and Blogger are getting into the mainstream. They had normally been called the ICQ of web sites .The former is fee-based while the latter is freebie. What sets them apart from the old…
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A Short Trip to Lake Tahoe
I was feeling bored that I decided to make the four hours plus drive to Lake Tahoe, to take a breather. After three days of revamping this site, the occasional tweaking of all the computers in the house and my fix-your-PC moonlighting, I had it for a while. After all, it had just been just…