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Alienware M17x Introduced at E3

Other than the hype over X-Box Natal and Sony’s motion detection device at E3, one other device came out a little more quietly. Dell’s Alienware has released their new laptop touted as “the most powerful 17″ gaming laptop in the ...

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Palm Pre Fever

I’ve been waiting patiently for the Palm Pre to come out for months now.  Is it an iPhone killer? I don’t know. It’s certainly not going to have the kind of 3rd party software that’s available right now for the ...

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Dell Studio 17 Battery Life Test Results

Jared asked me for more information on the battery on my new Dell Studio 17.  Being the OCD Rain-man that I am, I decided to conduct some testing and document the result here for your reading pleasure. So to begin, ...

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Dell Studio 17 Blue Screen of Death

For the first time since switching over to Vista, I got a BSOD (Blue screen of death) on my brand new Dell Studio 17 after updating Vista via Microsoft.  Very nice.  After my great experience with the Dell customer support, ...

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Dell Customer Service Hell

As you know, I’ve had my love/hate relationship with HP and their horrible customer service.  Well, that honor has moved over to Dell. Oh, where do I start. After I bought my Dell Studio 17 at Best Buy, I called ...

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Splashscreen WordPress plugin version 0.20

Cochinoman released the first version (0.01) for a splash screen for WordPress back in February.  Since then, I have gotten some requests for more features. One of the requested feature was a list of excluded pages that would not cause ...

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Dell Studio 17 – Full Review

My Toshiba Qosmio started to turn off by itself, apparently from overheating. Since I can’t have my computer turning off unexpectedly, I immediately went online to compare laptops. I didn’t want to spend $2k+ for a crazy fast game laptop, ...

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Honda Ya Izakaya Mini Review – Part 3

As I said in my last re-review of Honda Ya, I really like this place as a Izakaya restaurant. But this blog is supposed to be about sushi, so I decided to try it there. They don’t have nigiri sushi, ...

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Asuka Restaurant Review

Asuka is located in Westwood and has been at this location for probably 20 years or so because I remember going here in the 80’s.  When my cousin told me she was visiting LA with her family and wanted to ...

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CNN Buys Top Twitter Account

After resisting for about a year from talking about Twitter, I finally have to say something. CNN “bought” the top Twitter account, which has 947,000 followers. The “sale” is not official because that violates Twitter’s terms of service, so the ...

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