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Razer Blade 17″ gaming laptop review

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The Razer BladeĀ laptop is one of the most intriguing ‘gaming’ laptops to come along in quite a while. There have been a lot of “hands on” previews posted since the laptop was announced but only recently have real reviews stared to come online. As I find real reviews I will be posting them here along with some comments: Razer Blade review — Engadgethttp://www.engadget.com/2012/02/22/razer-blade-review/Type Gaming Screen size 17.3 inches Screen resolution 1920 x 1080 Processor speed 2.8 GHz System RAM 8

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Google Page Speed Service (speed up your website with Google)

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I came across Google’sĀ Page Speed ServiceĀ today, here is the description of their service: Page Speed Service is an online service to automatically speed up loading of your web pages. Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices and serves them to end users via Google’s servers across the globe.Ā  […] You canĀ run testsĀ to measure the speed up of your site in a few minutes. Page Speed Service is currently offered free

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List of Android apps I have uninstalled

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My LG Optimus V Android phone does not have much internal storage space, so I try to install as much to the SD card as possible and generally keep it pretty “lean”. Unfortunately, this means I sometimes uninstall apps that I really do like… but I just do not use them enough to justify keeping them and using up valuable space. So that I don’t forget these apps (in case I need them at some point in the future), here’s

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Heating a small outbuilding

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Some helpful links for heating a small outbuilding: Three Ways to Heat Your Tiny Househttp://tinyhouseblog.com/heaters/tinyhouseheat/Your in the process of designing your tiny house and one of the issues you must decide is how to heat your small space. ā€œNormalā€ central heat or wood stoves, etc.ā€¦ Heaters (category)http://tinyhouseblog.com/heaters/One of the perks that comes with writing a blog is that occasionally I am approached to write a review about a product that a company feels would work in the tiny/small houseā€¦ $350

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Lump sum payout versus annuity payments

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While visiting John in STL recently, his girlfriend regaled with me a tale of a man (we’ll call Fred) who received a large settlement from his wife when they divorced. Fred then proceeded to move to Thailand (a lifelong dream of his) where he started a resort and began construction on a mini-mansion. Unfortunately he ran out of money shortly afterwards and is apparently now destitute šŸ™ These types of stories, with variations, are surprisingly common: someone wins the lottery

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