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• Memory Cards are More Convenient than Flash Drives Yesterday, my trusty 128MB USB Flash keychain drive gave up the ghost. Dead. Unrecognized by any machine. I originally picked it up a couple years ago to transfer a large number of files too big for email, yet passed back and forth too frequently for the slow mount/unmount of the iPod. It’s served me well.
• Mapquest Drives Faster than Google Looking for the best route for the first leg next week’s roadtrip (Minneapolis to Rapid City), Jen and I checked out MapQuest and Google Maps and found something very interesting: MapQuest drives across South Dakota at 71 mph Google has the cruise control set at 61 mph
• How to Set Up a Linksys Router with Mac OS X  “INSERT CD FIRST”, screamed the sticker on the back of the Linksys wrt54g router. A decade with Macintoshes has taught me the suggestions are normally for Windows machines. The router was persistent - and the sticker was blocking the power port - so, I thought I’d humor it. I was right. The CD shipping was
• Treo Replaces iPod for Brush Clearing Listening  Finally had a few moments to clear out the tree damage we had from the late summer thunderstorm I mention eariler. About halfway through, the battery in my 40gb iPod started flaking out - as it’s so prone to do. With the battery only reliable when it’s plugged in, the usefulness of the iPod is seriously
• When I’d Pay For WiFi There’s a showing at the house this morning. Between waking up, tidying up, responding to the morning email, I wasn’t able to grab a decent breakfast (or brunch as I prefer). I already had a cup of coffee, just needed a network, someplace reasonably quiet, and some food. Too many places with free wifi don’t