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20 Highest Radiating Cell Phones

Dave — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:16:29 +0000

Hmm, is your ear feeling a little too warm?
source: cnet.com

	Manufacturer and model	SAR level(digital)
1	Motorola V195s	1.6
2	Motorola Zine ZN5	1.59
2a	Motorola Rival	1.59
4	Kyocera Jax S1300	1.55
4a	Motorola VU204	1.55
6	RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Sprint)	1.54
6a	RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (U.S. Cellular)	1.54
6b	RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon Wireless)	1.54
9	Motorola Crush	1.53
9a	Nokia E71x	1.53
11	Pantech Matrix	1.52
12	LG Rumor 2	1.51
12a	RIM BlackBerry Bold	1.51
14	HTC SMT5800	1.49
14a	Motorola Droid	1.49
16	Sony Ericsson W350a	1.48
17	LG Chocolate Touch	1.47
17a	Nokia 2320 GoPhone	1.47
17b	Palm Pixi Plus (Verizon Wireless)	1.47
17c	T-Mobile Dash 3G	1.47

What St. Patricks Day Means To Me

Dave — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:57:28 +0000

Before I discovered pubs and Irish whiskey, St. Patrick’s Day was best represented by Uncle O’Grimacy and Shamrock Shakes.

Tsunami Waves At Ocean Beach, SF

Dave — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:20:54 +0000

Well, looks like the normal surf to me…

“Tsunami” Waves at Ocean Beach, Feb. 27, 2010 from Richmond SF Blog on Vimeo.

Upgrading Windows 7 RC to Retail version

Dave — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:23:49 +0000

Now that the installation of Windows 7 RC installed on my Media server is giving me the countdown to death, it’s time to upgrade with a retail copy of Windows 7 Professional. Microsoft doesn’t support upgrading the free Release Candidate version to the retail version, but there is a easy workaround posted at Icrontic. The advantage of doing it this way instead of a ‘clean install’, is that you can keep your installed apps and settings. Another how-to is posted by Colleen of TWiT fame on her site, theV01d.com.

After pondering this for a moment, I decided to just do a clean install. It actually goes quicker than running this hack and I only had a couple programs installed [Boxee and VLC], so re-installing apps was a breeze. I just installed over the old XP partition on my Media box and was up and running. I then deleted the RC partition to free up some space.

Big Social Media Sites Now Using NoSQL

Dave — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:57:39 +0000

Interesting, Twitter and other big players in social media are switching from MySQL (now part of Oracle) to Cassandra (NoSQL), an Apache Software Foundation open source project. Read the article.

Visit to the TWiT Cottage

Dave — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:22:28 +0000

On a lark, I decided to drive up to Petaluma and visit Leo LaPorte’s TWiT Cottage where he and crew produce TWiT.tv shows. During my visit I watched the recording of Macbreak Weekly, which features Leo, Alex Lindsay and Andy Ihnatko.

Mark Malkoff Gets Carried in New York City

Dave — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:54:02 +0000

Interesting social experiment and attempted during freezing weather!

What’s Happening in Oakland!

Dave — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:21:19 +0000

Check out Cool Hunting’s nice video of some of our favorite people and places in Oakland.

The Swedes Are So Appreciative!

Dave — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:46:15 +0000

The Swedes are so appreciative of the little things I do…

Fuzzy Fuzzy Cute Cute?

Dave — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:13:13 +0000

OK, I’m in Parry Gripp jingle phase. Like, today I’m looking at razor blades at the drug store and couldn’t help but have Parry’s More Blades Better Shave play in my head.