Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Economic policy and manufcaturing
While any American who is vacationing overseas this year would not agree that the Dollar to Euro exchange rate is at a good level, it appears that the U.S. manufacturing sector would disagree. While I don;t like the idea of a weak dollar in the global currency market, I do like the idea of cheaper…
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Chinese manufacturing – a series of interesting posts from Boing Boing
I found this series of posts that Boing Boing linked to on Chinese manufacturing really interesting. It is no wonder that so many goods come out so cheaply when things are this efficient and at this scale. If the manufacturing industry in China can get their arms around compliance and quality issues there will be…
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Heading over to the fair tonight
So what is a sure sign that the summer is coming to an end, it’s county fair time again. Tonight I am heading over to the local fair to check out the junior contest horse show and eat a few dozen funnel cakes. There’s nothing better than watching an 8 year old cling for dear…
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Boing Boing links to a bunch of Japanese Rube Goldberg videos
Seems to be a lot of Rube going around these days. Boing Boing: Japanese Rube Goldberg videos American Outlaws move
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Day 3 on Facebook
Well its been a few days since I have signed up for Facebook. So far so good, but this article comes along and has given me a whole new set of things to try. One thing I have learned in these 3 short days is you have to decide why you are on facebook: is…
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My first "cat" video
So I have been posting videos to youtube for over a year, and I have finally devolved into posting cat videos like everyone else. At least this one has the potential for some violence 😉 The story behind this video is last night when I got home there was a line of wild turkey hens…
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Liking the N800 more and more
I just updated my N800 with the new Mozilla browser and it’s great. I can get the full version of Google reader (I was having to use the mobile version), Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps (with side view) and even Google Docs. Why did I want one of those UMPCs again? Gorillas in the Mist: The…
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Trying out a bunch of new tech
So it’s not like I don’t have anything better to do but today I signed up for both Facebook and Twitter. Not sure what I’m going to do with either yet, but another one in the long list of experiments. So far, I really like the simplicity and mobility of Twitter, but it is obviously…
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iPhone = Device (not Platform)
I am in the middle of deciding my next mobile device and like everyone else in a similar situation am closely looking at the Apple iPhone. The one catch to the iPhone is that the only way for a 3rd party to get an application on it is through the web browser. As I look…