Snazzy Olympus XZ-1 grip (w/photos)

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Here is a very cool new grip for the Olympus XZ1: New Olympus XZ1 Grip — now shipping!http://www.kleptography.com/rf/Richard Franiec’s Camera Accessories The camera’s default grip definitely provides adequate handling for me, but I can see this 3rd party grip making it even better. 🙂 I should probably also clarify, my wife has the cool XZ-1 but she is kind enough to let me use it! One more photo of the grip, from R.F.’s Picasso page: Top Search Terms:olympus xz-1 grip

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Huggies Pure and Natural Diapers (size 3) Out of Stock!

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We’ve been surprised that almost every store, both online and brick/mortar, is out of Huggies Pure and Natural Size 3 diapers. Thankfully, our little girl can wear size 4 now but it’s still a little bit weird. What is up Huggies? I first noticed something weird when our scheduled “subscription” (recurring) order of diapers from Amazon was delayed. Then I asked our good friend Caitlin to pick some up from Target, little did I know that she would check at

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Changing the oil and oil filter on a Chevy Avalanche [updated for 2013]

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Today I changed the oil on our 2011 Chevrolet Avalanche for the first time. A few notes on the process: the oil drain plug (bolt) is located horizontally (sideways), not vertically (downward) like I’m used to. the drain plug uses a 15mm wrench to re-tighten the drain plug, I used 18 ft/lbs torque (the recommendations I found called for between 15-20 ft/lbs) the oil filter is surprisingly small access to the oil filter is generally good, but clearance is tight. most oil

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Google Refine / Freebase

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It’s always fun to come across awesome new sites! I found Jeff Foster’s site Fatvat when I was searching for some info about Oracle and Larry, Prince Of Darkness… after reading about it on Engadget. Anyway, after all that, here’s some really cool stuff that should be very helpful to some of my database projects: Google Refine, an intro by Jess Foster http://www.fatvat.co.uk/Google Refine is a toy for playing with data, originally developed by the team behind Freebase. It’s a

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The Starcraft II Van!

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Last summer Samantha and I came across this awesome van: Of course, what makes it totally awesome is that it’s a STARCRAFT II van! StarCraft 2 is basically the only computer game that I still occasionally play (usually with my buddy Kevin). We started playing classic Starcraft 1 together way back in college (circa 1999-2003). So of course seeing this pimpin’ van really made my day :-). Top Search Terms:starcraft van (94)starcraft vans (13)van starcraft (9)starcraft van logo (5)star craft

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It pays to keep paper statements

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I’m always surprised how often the “online statements” of Chase or Discover are “offline for maintenance” or suffering from “online error”. Sometimes it is nice to have a trusty paper statement as a backup :-). Top Search Terms:www.jdhodges.com+paper-statements (8)chase statement (5)chase online statements (4)chase paper statement (3)chase paper statements (2)chase online (2)chase routing number on paper statement (2)it pays to discover (2)chase (1)chase credit card paper statements (1)

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Daily update: some long overdue projects

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The girls are visiting family in KS, so today I got some long overdue projects done: replaced the coaxial cabling for our WildBlue satellite internet (I previously nicked one of the cables, thus I needed to replace it) hammered in a grounding rod to attach the ground cable to (for the WildBlue satellite dish) finished running the ethernet cable from our office closet to the networking center of our home (thanks to my dad for helping me fish the wire

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