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Scaled Composites my private tour

My private tour of Scaled Composites took place in 1988 or 1989. I was working in Lemoore California and was one of the people on the team to help organize the NAS Lemoore Airshow and had traveled to Salinas and several other areas that had reputations for good airshows. If I remember correctly Scaled Composites had a couple of their

FlipStartPC a very cool mini PC

When I travel I tote a Desktop replacement laptop with me. Some of you will say why do you do that. The answer is simple my trips are usually up to a month long and I don't move around much. I have a need though to carry electronic pubs into the field and hauling around that laptop just does not

Run a Pirate Radio Station with a iPod

Anyone can run a rouge radio station (with limited range) with a little work and some ingenuity. Engadget has a nice little article and with a bit of searching around the net you can come up with a radio station with significant range. [Engadget]

Should your DVD and CD recording media come with quality rating?

Those of you that are long term readers will remember we went into a lot of details about recordable media becoming corrupt over time. Apparently this issue is starting to get some mainstream attention in that there are some proposals on the table to include a rating of the media quality. In my opinion this is long overdue. [PCWorld]

Wireless External Drive

Linksys and Maxtor have teamed up to offer a wireless device that will allow you to hook up a hard-drive to it. I am going to get one of these as soon as they are available as I have some spare drives laying around that could go to good use. [Cnet]

FreeCache.org

I have been pondering the idea of a video blog as something fun to do. But the cost of bandwidth scares me. Adam Curry has been playing around with a service called Freecache.org and it looks to have some great possibilities. I reviewed the site today and will be trying it on a couple of my private sites with family

igargoyle.com

Found a pretty interesting Hi-Tech Geek site that I am going to add to my daily read. [igargoyle.com]