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Smart Fortwo is Small But Safe

In the last month or so, I’ve been seeing these almost golf cart sized “cars” on the road.  I assumed they were electric cars but didn’t know what it was.  I finally got curious enough to google it and found ...

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Takushi Sushi Review

Takushi is a new sushi restaurant that replaced what used to be another older sushi restaurant in Little Tokyo. The interior has been spruced up and looks a little nicer.  I tried their top-end nigiri sushi plate (shown above). Although, ...

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Globat Nightmare Part 5 – Final Countdown

By now, you should now about my hate/more hate relationship with hosting company globat.com.  As I got ready to change hosting companies, my yearly contract was about to run out on May 9, 2008.  However, on April 21, a full 19 ...

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Joolma + Godaddy = Success

In case you’re not familiar with Joomla, it’s a PHP/MySQL based content management system (CMS) that you can use to create entire websites with.  I already had a godaddy.com account for another website so I decided to try to set ...

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How to Get Pinkberry Tax Free

Everywhere I go, people seem to be talking about Pinkberry. I’m not a big yogurt fan but since they seem to be multiplying like rabbits, I decided to try it out. As yogurt goes, it’s very tasty and I can ...

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Pokerstars Gives Away WSOP 2008 Entries

Pokerstars.com is giving away free entries to the WSOP 2008 main event.  What’s the catch?  Well, you have to come in the top 50 out of 5,000 in your first level tournament.  The blinds go up every 5 minutes.  Once ...

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Globat Nightmare – Part 5

In case you missed my rants about Globat, it started here. After my email confirmation with Edward Gaa, their VP of Sales and Marketing, AND a conversation over the phone with their customer service rep, that they will no longer ...

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Tivo 30 Second Skip

While watching Cranky Geeks on my Tivo, I noticed Dvorak complaining how his Tivo didn’t skip commercials like his cable DVR.  Huh?  Hasn’t he seen the tons of websites that explain how to “hack” your Tivo (e.g. BigMarv)? Just in case ...

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Joy Mart Nigiri Sushi Quick Review – Part 2

Last time I went to Joy Mart, I tried their Ahi Sashimi, with ponzu sauce, which was pretty good.  This time, I decided to try their nigiri sushi plate ($21.50) since I didn’t have any nigiri sushi last time. As ...

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WordPress 2.5 not IE friendly

The non-beta version of WordPress 2.5 came out at the end of March but I held off upgrading because I didn’t have enough time. This weekend, I had some time to do some work so I decided to upgrade this ...

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