I installed WordPress for Android on my new Samsung Epic and thought I would do a test post. The keyboard is adequate. The WordPress app is free and supports keyword tags and categories.  Too bad I can’t take a picture in the app.

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I have a good friend who I may have to un-friend because he is going in to the Pay Day Loan business.  He tries to tell me this is an important business that fills the need for low income people with bad credit.  In my eyes that is why it is such an evil business.  [...]

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Being a Midwest Farm Boy at heart I love a good grill, and Weber makes some of the best.  The Weber Grill Factory Outlet in Illinois is an amazing place to visit.  It’s like a giant grill heaven with a huge selection of chrome, cast iron, brushed, and stainless grills, outdoor stoves.  The Weber Grill [...]

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I spoke on the phone with Adam Mesh several times, and he very much seems to be a decent guy. He is sending a copy of his product for me to do a full review on, but I can say for certain that a guy who calls to say that we didn’t give his product [...]

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YuDu Screen Printing Machine Kit is the first "As Seen on TV" item I have wanted in a long while.  I have a lot of funny t-shirts, and I often have ideas for new ones. I’m having a hard time justifying the Nearly $300 Price tag, but Amazon has it for a lot less (about [...]

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Cute animals preparing to sleep, is a great way to get your kid to fall asleep.  The Nighty Night Video works almost as well as playing Dr. Phil before bedtime.  This DVD as seen on Dr. Phil “triggers” your kids to fall asleep. I’m personally very fond of this image of the polar bear licking [...]

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Pic doesn’t do them justice as you can’t see the Silver Foil, or the UV Spot gloss, or how high of resolution the print is. I ordered them from Taste of Ink Studios.  Good price for great looking cards.

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Two of my friends have reported that they say $7.50 taken from their PayPal account in recent days by Rebatesoft.  The small unauthorized Charge might not be noticed by some.  But taken from 100’s of thousands of people the amount adds up. Why PayPal hasn’t blocked this obvious scam is beyond me.  Several posts on [...]

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I saw a BigFoot KillerNic (killernic.com) in the Microcenter the other day, and wondered how good it really was, so I bought it figuring if it sucked I could return it.  It did, and I did. I put the KillerNic up against the real world experiences I could simulate in my humble home, and compared [...]

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I was in the neighborhood, and am looking to possibly burn some money, so I decided to check out the Tesla dealer on Santa Monica Blvd.  Having spent a lot of time in a Lotus Elise, I expected that I was not going to be impressed.  I was however pleasantly surprised.  The Tesla is a [...]

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I received an excellent Four Hand Massage from June and Nadia while in LA.  I had never indulged in this type of extravagance, because I always assumed a longer 2 hand would be better.  In truth I have never had such a great massage.  Both June and Nadia are very conversational, fun, and friendly, and [...]

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Ever wished your phone looked a little more like a scene from 2001:A space Odessy" Yeah, me neither.  But you could blow a grand and do just that.  And 8 people did.  The idiots. Similar to the Grand Theft Auto 4 joke about $1000 ring tones.  This is the ultimate bling for the iPhone. If [...]

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I saw an ad for the Optic 1050 Binoculars, and I have to say that 1000% is 10x.  This is not "ultra-high" magnification like they say in the ad.  Combine this with the weird coating they put on the lens which reduces the light levels, and the fact that there is no image stabilization, and [...]

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I bought a 97 Jeep Wrangler.  4.0 Liter inline 6, a gas guzzler for its size.  This one was eating even more gas than I thought it should 14 miles to the gallon Highway.  So I looked for low hanging fruit.  The Idle didn’t sound quite right, so I assumed the spark plugs, or distributor [...]

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I’m tempted to drive down the hill and put gas in my car which doesn’t need it, just to annoy the people who organized today’s Gas Strike (which is actually a Gas Boycott, but no need to piss off the idiots who organized it). Gas is subject to supply and demand, and while I suspect [...]

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LG is going all out with the Premiere of the LG Scarlet line of HDTV’s. I’m pretty pscyhed about these TV’s.  The Scarlet series is a set of LED backlit LCD’s, with 120hz upconversion.  The result is a breathtaking picture when attached to Blu-ray or HD-DVD.  But when push comes to shove this is not [...]

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Maybe in an e-bay picture you could pass these fakes off as real, but a quick look at the interior, and anyone who watched Magnum PI is going to know this is not a vintage Ferrari.  While a nice conversion from Toyota to Ferrari, a test drive would tell you this isn’t the real thing.  [...]

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I don’t usually get too excited over prices of hard disks, but I was browsing for my next set of drives for a Raid Array and thought I was going to be looking at 250 Gig Sata’s times 4, but I came across a deal that was too good to pass up. 1 Terabyte Sata [...]

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I couldn’t find any good resources to really show me how easy or hard it was going to be to replace the lamp (bulb) in my Samsung DLP.  So Christina made one, and it was quite simple. Christina shows how easy it is to swap the lamp in your front or rear projection DLP, LCOS, [...]

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I bought a Xincom Dual Wan Load Balacing Router to “bond” or at least aggregate my EVDO Rev A and my Hughes Satellite connection.  How was the result?  Seemingly great. While optimized for multiple users rather than for boosting the speed of a single user across two connections, it does do that as well. I [...]

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