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We have a 2004 Honda Odyssey with about 110k miles on it. We’ve never really had any problems with it, and have always taken good care of it. Nonetheless, we just had a bit of a transmission scare.

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I just spent the afternoon helping my son recover from a nasty virus on his Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook. We’re still not sure how exactly he got it, but he didn’t tell me about it right away, and his computer wound up completely disabled.

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Recovering From a Nasty Windows Virus

by mike on August 29, 2010 · 0 comments

My son’s Asus Eee PC 1000HE running Windows XP recently contracted a nasty virus. Unfortunately, he didn’t tell me about it right away, and we ended up having to completely restore his system and start over from scratch.

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Garmin nuvi GPS Battery Recall

by mike on August 26, 2010 · 0 comments

If you have a Garmin nuvi GPS, then listen up. I just received an e-mail from Garmin about a product safety recall relating to a potential risk of the battery overheating in your GPS unit. Bummer, huh? Here’s the scoop…

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Watch Netflix on Your iPhone

by mike on August 26, 2010 · 0 comments

This is just a quick note to say that the Netflix app has finally been updated to work with the iPhone and iPod Touch (it was previously iPad only). You can even stream over 3G on the iPhone. Pretty slick. Get it here.

I love technology as much as the next guy, so when Google Voice came out, I was intrigued. As handy as it seems, however, I just couldn’t find a good use for it. For me, it was a solution in search of a problem.

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How to Seal Brick and Mortar

by mike on August 22, 2010 · 0 comments

After moving into our first house, which had an all brick exterior, I was surprised to learn that wind-driven rain can cause problems with water intrusion through a brick wall. While proper flashing and weep holes should keep this from creating problems, those details are rarely done right.

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I recently ran out of hard drive space while ripping DVDs. The resulting lack of Virtual Memory caused Mac OSX to “pause” several applications. Once I freed up some additional space, I wanted to unpause them, but was unsure how.

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Our kids go back to school every year in early August, so we’ve made a tradition of taking one last trip to the beach at the end of July. This year, we headed to St. Augustine Beach, Florida. It was a great trip, and fun was had by all.

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Back in the day, there were two flavors of the Wordpress blogging platform: Wordpress and Wordpress MU (Multi-User). With the release of WP3, these two versions have been merged, but the MU functionality is hidden by default.

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