In our last episode of Car Shopping we introduced our contestants:
the Ford Escape 4×4,
Ford Fusion AWD, and
Ford Taurus AWD;
the Jeep Patriot 4×4, and
Jeep Liberty 4×4;
the Honda CR-V AWD,
the Subaru Forester, and
the Toyota RAV4 AWD, with
the Chevy Equinox AWD rounding out the group.
So how did we come up with this cast of characters. Also from last time, here [...]
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In a world where filling your gas tank means taking out a second mortgage and hoping for a Congressional bailout…
Yes, we’ve finally decided to make a change. But it’s not the Suburban that’s going - not this time, anyway (evil laugh). It may be a gas hog, but [...]
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Posted in Computers, Computers and Internet, Health, Health and Wellness, Internet, Life, News, News and Politics, Science and Technology, Technology, Wellness on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
As you’ve no doubt been able to tell, I’m not killing myself writing new posts on my blog. Seems there are others who have been, however.
Pity.
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Posted in Computers, Computers and Internet, Entertainment, Hobbies, Internet, Life, Music, News, News and Politics, Science and Technology, Technology on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wireless. It’s hip, it’s modern, it’s what’s new. It’s also retro, quaint, and old fashioned. Radio has been around for more than a hundred years, had its “Golden Age” before television “killed” it years ago. Not so much killed it, I suppose, as severely wounded it.
And yet, radio endures. Commercial radio, however, is now as [...]
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Been following the financial markets lately? Stocks up, stocks down. Gas and oil prices up, up some more, and yet still more before pausing for everyone to catch their breath. Falling interest rates, rising anxieties.
I have noticed in recent day that the mainstream news media seem even more intent on characterizing daily events as some kind [...]
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Another entry from the “late to the party files”: PC driving games. More precisely, auto racing simulation software. Games don’t have to ground themselves in reality. Simulations are a completely different story and, for me, the history of the PC and simulation software go hand-in-hand.
There is something deeply satisfying in mastering a new skill, in acquiring and developing [...]
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As I’ve observed elsewhere, I don’t exactly live on the bleeding edge. That said, I am not new to the world of online music services, whether it’s a radio station streaming live, audio archives of a favorite program, Hearts of Space, StillStream, or MSN Radio (now Pandora). The kids are all on iTunes - so [...]
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For almost ten years Mark Bittman has been writing for The New York Times as “The Minimalist.” Though I have been a regular (mostly online) reader of the Times for a while now, it’s only recently that I have really paid any attention to his writing and online video. (Never let it be [...]
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