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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:01:23 -0800
From: Martin Golding 
Subject: Cookoff

We had winners!

In the dill category Gita for her delightful dilled eggplant salad.

For tomato, andrea's tomatoey chile (I have leftovers and you don't. It's GOOD to be the host.)

For Real Food, Jack's balls in sweet sauce.

For Chocolate, Slate and Jack's chocolate ganache.

For non-chocolate dessert Joe's gluten free happy chicken egg pumpkin pie in a pecan crust.

This is major cool stuff:

http://jsbin.com/

Click on the "Introduction" screencast. It's pretty short and covers everything (including the Ajax debugging part).

They try:

http://jsbin.com/afape

"View Source"
and also http://jsbin.com/afape/edit

My now-venerable Dell Inspiron E1705, Intel Core Duo T2500 2GHz, Intel 945 Express graphics, 2GB RAM, 200GB Hitachi 5400RPM SATA drive, had Vista on one partition and Win7 RC on another. Before doing the Win7 install, I used Windows Easy Transfer on Vista and separately on Win7 RC to make separate backup/transfer bundles to an external USB disk drive (WD MyBook Home 500GB).

And I also backed-up all my data files and documents as I normally do every week, using SyncToy to my home server.

My buddy H Marc lent me his Lenovo Ideapad S10 for a few days so that I could see whether or not I wanted a netbook.   Here are some of my impressions.

Screen

Windows 7 Beta 1 (build 7000)

System configuration
- Dell Inspiron E1705 (BIOS A09)
- Intel Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz
- 2GB RAM
- Intel 945 Express mobile video (256MB)
- Boradcomm 440x wired LAN
- Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
- 200GB Hitachi 7200RPM
- Partitions: 40M Dell diag, 154GB Vista, 20GB XP (target for W7), 20GB Ubuntu Hardy Heron
- Multi-booted using Vista's boot manager
- Using a 4GB SD HC high-speed (Ducati edition!) Flash card dedicated to ReadyBoost

Initial installation:

At least eight Americans as well as other Western nationals have been detained by the Chinese government, according to Reuters, for expressing political speech related to Tibet. We Americans take our right to "free speech" as a given, although this right is not a global one.