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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Waiting for the Netpliance iOpener hack parts
The thing had been sitting on a makeshift shelf on the garage – very close to the roof. I had only tested it briefly after I had acquired it from an estate auction in Dec. 2002 (too bad, I missed…
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