20 Mbs broadband connection – both directions for $64.99/month

“Some residents of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey who live inside the boundaries of Verizon’s FiOS network will be the first to be able to take advantage of Verizon’s new 20/20 FiOS service. As the name implies, 20/20 FiOS is a symmetrical 20Mbps connection (same speed in both directions), and it’s one of the first symmetrical services to target the consumer market.”

arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071023-verizon-discovers-symmetry-offers-2020-symmetrical-fios-service.html

Humm… I wonder if I should move to New York, Connecticut, or New Jersey?

USB Cell – Rechargable “USB” AA battery

Recharge this AA battery using your USB port:

www.usbcell.com/
Rechargable

Takes 5 hours to get 90% charged.

$16.75 to buy 2.

Registry mystery solved

Ok.. seems minor, but it has puzzled me for a long time. We do server changes at work via a set of files some of which add registry entries. And we are supposed to have a set of “roll back” files that will undo what we did. For the longest time, we did not know how to delete a registry value via a .reg file. And so had manual instruction on how to delete it manually. well, today, I just happen to do a search on Google and found out:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\DummyTree]
“ValueToBeRemoved”=-
source: www.robvanderwoude.com/regedit.html

Research resources on the internet

List of 119 authoritative sources on the internet, besides Google

oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google

GeoHive – Global stats

www.xist.org/default1.aspx

FedStats

www.fedstats.gov/

Mythology

www.theoi.com/

www.pantheon.org/

New ways to search Wikipedia

WikiMind Map:


www.wikimindmap.org/

Look at this search for “cell”

www.wikimindmap.org/viewmap.php?wiki=en.wikipedia.org&topic=cell

wikimindmap-cell.PNG

Also, you can try WikiSeek.
www.wikiseek.com/