Best way to store fresh ginger

http://www.finecooking.com/articles/storing-ginger.aspx

Tips for non-stick pans

Paper towel with oil before use, do not use non-stick sprays
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/your-money/18shortcuts.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage

To remove exact duplicates in iTunes

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/22/itunes-101-display-exact-duplicate-songs-using-the-option-key/

The best explanation of chocolate tempering

http://chocolatetempering.net/abouttempering.htm

Finally explains why you have to let the chocolate cool and then heat it up again.

Great article on fixing the deficit

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html?hp

Passwords not to use...

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/12/13/the-top-50-gawker-media-passwords/

Let's take Alzheimer's down!

Amazing new insights. NYT

Makeup site for trial with my wife

taaz.com

Aetna Healthfund auto accident coverage

- Called on 11/23/2010 at 3:22pm
- Found out there is no special treatment for medical injuries due to a car accident.
- Only additional thing they do is they give you a questionnaire to basically check and see if you have any non-Aetna insurers that should be billed first.
- 3rd party insurance kicks in (mine or other person's) before Aetna kicks in
- Will need denial or exhaustion of coverage letter before Aetna kicks in from 3rd party insurer.

Future flash purchases

- Umbrella adapter
- Male/Male PC connector (9' minimum)
- Possibly cold shoe adapter as well

Win7 install info

- Downloaded all Win7 drivers fro all EVGA components ahead of time:
* Audio
* Network
* Chipset

BIOS settings
* SATA mode: [RAID]
* JMB362 SATA contorller [auto]
* JMB363 SATA/PATA controller [auto]
* JMB363 Mode [RAID mode]
* JMB362 Mode [RAID mode]

Power Management
* ACPI enabled
* ACPI Suspend type [S3/STR]
* USB KB wake up [disabled]

Adobe RSRG offset

After a phone call with Adobe accounting I figured out what was going on. When my Restricted Stock Shares vested:
- Adobe listed the full value of the vested restricted shares as income on my paycheck statement.
- Adobe then paid taxes by selling some of those vested shares (so I don't end up with a tax surprise at the end of the year).
- However, if they stopped there Adobe's finance system would have generated a check for me for the balance (i.e., value of options - taxes withheld > 0). But of course that "income" is listed for tax reporting purposes only, the shares now in my control actually hold the value. So to avoid having the system create an incorrect paycheck they create an artificial "RSRG Offset" item that is listed as a deduction. The RSRG Offset is exactly the net left over after subtracting the taxes withheld from the value of the shares that vested.

In other words the formula is:
Value of options at vest - taxes withheld = RSRG offset.

Vinyl base molding is what I need to purchase

Grocery stores for key pantry staples

Whole Foods
- Maldon sea salt
- Muir Glen canned tomatoes

Nob Hill
- Perichetty black pepper corns (McCormick premium brand)
- Swanson Organic Free Range chicken broth

- King Arthur flour at Whole Foods and Safeway
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Cold symptoms are due to our body, not the virus itself causing damage

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/opinion/05ackerman.html?src=me&ref=homepage

Inside analysis on why Wesabe failed and Mint won

http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint

Free credit card swiper for iPhone - Square

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/technology/personaltech/30pogue.html?ref=homepage&src=me&pagewanted=all

Free tool to test what people remember about a website

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/09/24/24readwriteweb-get-a-clue-what-do-people-remember-about-you-3556.html?src=me&ref=technology

Best clear qam channel listing in my area

http://www.silicondust.com

To create a copy of a Gliffy diagram:

Copy the whole wiki page, and then change the WML code to point the Gliffy reference to the current page's attachment. Copying wiki page also copies attachments, but the new duplicate page still refers to the old attachment (and that reference is now invalid since it's not a part of the current page). So by changing the WML code to refer to new page's attachment all is well and the original document and Gliffy are not effected.

Anther vaccine autism study

Another study, this time showing that Mercury exposure is not tied to Autism risk. here

Going to try OpenDNS

Let's hope Pogue is right:

Tutorial on how to count names

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1043792.html

Based on zip code example

So do I or do I not get sun exposure...vitamin d...man

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/health/27brod.html?src=me&ref=homepage

Bob's custom monitor calibration steps

Dell monitor - set right for printing:
- Set brightness to 45
- Then do monitor calibration
- Then adjust brightness to match print output

Stupid shower washer...

1/2"- 14 NPT

Musical instrument ranges for subwoofer analysis

Acoustic ranges
Nice interactive chart
Vague but nice chart
Simple but precise chart
Crazy chart that captures obscure instruments

Probably want +/- 3db at 27Hz

The best time to buy things and save money

Vanguard

Man, now we have to worry about lithium ion battery ingestion

Man...

Found fix for Excel row auto-fit

Using the Format menu in the Ribbon. So annoying when double click doesn't work.
http://www.uwec.edu/help/Excel07/ws-rowcol.htm

Solution to "this is not a valid copy of windows" and VMWare Fusion

Here's what happened to me. Was happily running VMWare 3.0.2 on Macbook Pro. Had Win7 Enterprise installed as a bootcamp partition and would open that up on the Mac using Fusion - basically allowed me to use Win7 for Outlook and MS Project while doing everything else on the Mac.

Saw an enticing notice that Fusion 3.1 was now available. Downloaded, installed and updated VMWare tools on the bootcamp partition. All of a sudden Win7 started telling me that the activation was no longer valid and that I needed to reactivate. Tried everything under the sun in order to try and get it activated to no avail (restarts, going to microsoft.com/genuine, using slmgr.vbs, grabbing the key using Produkey, etc.). The weird/good thing was that whenever I booted natively into Win7 it was fine. It was whenever I booted into Win7 using fusion on the Mac side that it wasn't valid.

Finally had to call in the IT guy at work and he figured it out (go Mike!). Basically two combined fixes:

a) VMWare networking sometimes gets confused (tell me about it). He ran the following in the terminal to reset it:
sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh --restart

b) This was probably the key - he changed the perferences in VMWare such that before the Fusion image loaded that it was set to use Bridged networking from the beginning. I had it set to NAT and then tried switching it to Bridged after launch, but that probably wasn't good enough. Once he did that the Fusion Win7 instance was able to find the KMS server inside the firewall and all was well.

Glad that only burned a whole day from my life...arg...

Produkey to the rescue

Good tool to find Product Keys from an existing legit installs (for when I'm about to format a machine and the user doesn't have their original disks/serials anymore). Produkey from here:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/productkeysactivation/tp/topkeyfinder.htm

Shopping robots to check out

"Shopping robots, such as PriceGrabber.com and Shopping.com, are good places to comparison shop and may be particularly useful before visiting any liquidation sale, says Dworsky. One of his favorite sites, PriceSpider.com, posts historical prices; the range of prices should help you determine whether the price is likely to hold or continue to drop."

Great article showing the upcoming pain for Europe

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/world/europe/23europe.html?hp

The best way to diff Excels

Florencesoft DiffEngineX
one of the few pieces of shareware type software that I was happy to pay for (or rather my company did...:)).

Interesting stats based on culture vs. wealth

By David Brooks

Lifehacker tip on how to get the date in the Mac menu bar

Here

Fantastic article by NY Times on exercise and weight loss

Really helps explain a lot.

Gabriela Montero pianist

Gotta go see Gabriela Montero sometime. She improvises her encores. Very cool.

Interesting article on spending money to by experiences instead of stuff

From Vanguard

How to reference a cell in another tab in Excel

=Sheet2!B2

Uses the value in cell B2 on Sheet2

How Christian were America's founders?

Ny Times article. Mostly focuses on Texas Education board.

Problem with CDM+

First step was to find serial number in old install. Then I had to clear out an old registry entry for OpenBase which had been uninstalled. Next had to create a new Firewall exception for the 3 OpenBase applications instead of relying on the port exceptions.

Santa Clara County property tax estimator

Here

Interesting article on poverty in foreign countries

David Brooks

Interesting psychological studies on buying behavior

Nice quick blurbs that ring true...from Vanguard

Extension tube calculator

Here

The Mystery of Life's Origins

Reassessing current theories from a bio-chemical point of view. Sections here.

Online recipe sites

To check out later