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July 20, 2008

Geocaching Coins for a Cure

Filed under: SPEW — Darkavich @ 9:56 pm

Geocachers from Team Qualcomm are participating in the 2008 BikeMS Land Rover Miramar Bay to Bay Tour.

This year we decided to produce a geocoin as a fundraiser. We have commissioned a coin from Landsharkz. They have done a wonderful job capturing our concept and producing this coin. We are really excited with the finished product.

The coin is 42mm diameter and 3.0mm thickness. The edge of the coin is engraved with “Trackable at Geocaching.com”. The word SHARKZ will be replaced with the tracking number.

We are minting the coin with two finishes. They will be polished gold and polished nickel. There will only be 250 coins made this year. If we are successful in selling all the coins, we plan to commission a coin for next  year as well. Here are the pictures of the proofs.

The cost of the coin is $9.50 plus shipping. Shipping costs are estimated  (more exact prices once we have the finished product) at $4.50 for the first two coins and $.75 for each additional coin in the same shipment. 100% of all proceeds will be donated to the National MS Society.

Our Team web site can be found at http://www.pedalforthecure.org. and if you want to donate directly to our bike team, you can do so at: http://biketofinishms.com/darkavich If you are interested in purchasing a coin or two, please send me email.


July 15, 2008

Why buy a hammer if your never going to use it?

Filed under: Things Peeves Would Do — Darkavich @ 8:20 am

One of my pet peeves is people who buy SUV’s but drive them like their in a classic car. Today on my way to work, I had the displeasure to be behind a driver of a Land Rover who would not drive with any sort of sanity. They were driving 20 mph in a 40 zone. The car was not new, so it wasn’t a situation where they didn’t know their vehicle. To top it off, they crawled over the drive way entrance into work afraid to jar their vehicle.

Why in the world would you bother buying a vehicle that can go off-road and leap tall buildings in a single bound if your never going to drive that way? That little bump between the street and the parking lot is NOT going to hurt your car. Your not even going to feel it.

July 14, 2008

More apps to die for.

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 8:23 pm

I grabbed a few new apps today. The one that stands out and is going to be a huge success.

The app is called Shazam. The application works this way. You hear a song, you say, “hey… I know that song, but can’t remember the name.” So what is one to do… Whip out the iPhone with Shazam, push the tag button and hold the phone up to the music and wait. A few seconds later it will identify the song. But WAIT that’s not all. It gives you links to take you to the iTunes music store so you can buy it and download it.

Now this is really going to sell some phones!

July 13, 2008

2008 Olympics site

Filed under: Quidditch — Darkavich @ 3:53 pm

Just an FYI that it seems the olympics official site is hosted in China. I assuem that they will sensoring information coming into and out of china like they do for everything else.

The NBC web site is host at: http://www.nbcolympics.com/

July 12, 2008

Applications on my iPhone

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 11:24 pm

I installed the following apps this week.

  • Yelp (business locator)
  • Remote (control itunes on a remote computer)
  • French, German, Spanish dictionaries with speech
  • Jott (check out jott.com, killer voice to text note taker)
  • Baseball (stats for all the baseball teams sorted by year)
  • EasyTask (a task manager I am trying out)
  • AIM (AOL Instant messenger chat client)
  • 105 Classics (Internet radio station streaming client)
  • ShoppingList (create shopping lists, for fee app)
  • LiveSportz (still have not been able to get it working)
  • People (white pages search client)
  • Light (Turn your iPhone into a flashlight)
  • Facebook (simple Facebook client)
  • Whrrl (find friends in your area)
  • Twitteriffic (Twitter client)
  • Save Benjis (Internet search tool for products by name or bar codes)

I think I have exhausted all the free apps 😉

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