Wednesday, December 31, 2008

My Digital Conversion (Part III)

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Canon 5D Test Shots - Edited My brother and I went out and did the traditional Matt Davis/Steep Ravine loop and to shoot some pictures (well...

2008 Books of the Year

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I read 91 books in 2008 , well over twice the previous year's rate. This makes evaluation difficult because I read so many good books! T...

Inflation

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Most of the time when I think about inflation, it's in terms of CPI , CPI-U , or other such statistic. You can argue about whether these...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Tax Loss Harvesting

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I can really tell that the end of the year is coming and the state of people's portfolios by the kind of questions I get. This year, the...
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My Digital Conversion (Part II): "Film" is Cheap

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I was working through how much storage I would need over a 2 month trip in Australia. My standard is about 30 rolls for a 3 week trip (10 ro...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Review: Happiness

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Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth is one of the several spate of books to come out about happiness in the past yea...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Castle Rock to Big Basin HQ

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  Castle Rock to Big Basin Mike Samuel and Tammy Lin joined Lisa & I at Phil Sung's house on Saturday morning for a hike from Castle...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

My Digital Conversion

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In 1998, I took up photography as a hobby. At that time, my friends and I commented that we didn't think we'd be shooting film in 5 ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Review: The Dragons of Babel

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The Dragons of Babel is the "sequel" to Michael Swanwick's 1993 fantasy, The Iron Dragon's Daughter . The Iron Dragon...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

The Cheapskate Guide to Getting a G1 Running

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Let's say you get an unlocked developer's G1 . If you're like me, you don't talk very much on the phone, and you spend most ...
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Saratoga Gap Hike

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  The forecast was for iffy weather this morning, but it was supposed to be a rain later, so we set off to Saratoga Gap for a moderate hike....
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Why Investing is Hard

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There are many times when I tell people that do-it-myself financial planning is really easy. In fact, as far as the math goes, it's not ...
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Review: Archform: Beauty

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Archform Beauty ( Kindle Edition ) is best described as a thriller. While there's suspense, there's not really any mystery --- we l...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Review: A Splendid Exchange

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A Splendid Exchange ( Kindle Edition ) is a history book about trade. If I had any doubt that my knowledge of world history comes largely f...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Chrome 1.0 is Superfast

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I've been using Chrome for a while now, and while it was OK, I didn't find it particularly compelling --- it crashes on some web pa...

A Book Reviewers Linkup Meme

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The Accidental Bard A Dribble Of Ink Adventures in Reading The Agony Column The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. Barbara Martin ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

The Limits of Financial Planning

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If you're like anyone who's invested in the stock market over the last few years, the past 12 months must have been sobering --- we...
Monday, December 08, 2008

StreetView Trike

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Streetview Trike I was barely off the plane from Munich when Mike started talking to me about a trike and Monterey. Then Lea started askin...
Sunday, December 07, 2008

Why I love YouTube, part whatever!

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I found this clip just randomly trolling YouTube...and wow. I watched it twice before realizing I absolutely loved the song. I love the be...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Review: Canon G9 Digital Camera

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The Canon G9 is an obsolete camera, having been replaced by the G10 , which has more mega-pixels but a smaller zoom factor, though a nicer ...