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Atlanta’s Pocket PC User Group

Show and Tell of expensive toys could sum this evening up. There were only seven developers among the seventy or so attendees. The phrases Compact Framework or even .Net were not mentioned once! Still it was a fun evening, I … Continue reading

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Custom Building a Modern Mountain Bike

This was a dream bike build for me and lots of readers share the dream, so here goes: Build or buy? Building means you specify all the components. Even $5K bikes often come with pretty lame wheels, crank sets, cassette etc … Continue reading

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TurboTax vs TaxCut 2008

TurboTax has been wonderful over the years but the 2008 price totally made me baulk. An eye popping $229.80 this year for my needs: $49.95 Premier inc Rental Properties + $34.95 Per State $109.95 Business including S Corporations H&R Block … Continue reading

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Non Tech: Wagon on the Dragon

Bit of fun here: last week I headed to North Carolina and Deal’s Gap, aka Tail of the Dragon as I was sick of hearing friends talk about how great it was. 318 curves in 11 miles is their tagline, … Continue reading

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Moved to WordPress

This is the new feed: The transition was fairly painless. The DasBlog posts imported to WordPress directly from the RSS feed, but all the comments were lost. This may be a future possibility so I zipped up a working copy … Continue reading

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Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me

Paul Wilson tagged me – thanks Paul! Thanks for all the traffic you send my way too. Hopefully this list is not too boring: How many spots can you spot? Fast automobiles are my only vice, I shun status symbols … Continue reading

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