A brand new study out shows that using sinus rinsing as a prophylactic may actually have the opposite effect of increasing your rate of sinus infections.  Significantly.  As much as 50-60+ % more sinus infections.

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The best guide I found for reliably getting root access to your android HTC Hero device is here:  How To: Root Your CDMA HTC Hero (Sprint/Verizon) | The Unlockr

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This was played at the end of Reasonable Doubts podcast e55 and I loved it.  Had to find the high-fidelity version.  I think I might have my new ringtone…every call will be awe-inspiring.

Very cool and handy.  I use it for drupal’s Flickr plugin.

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Finally got a secondary wi-fi setup at home for guests, iPhone users, and neighbors who need to borrow it.  Like Bruce Schneier, I just think it’s the neighborly thing to do.  Until now, I couldn’t allow it because my main wi-fi needs encryption to keep interlopers off my LAN.  But, the secondary wi-fi is in a DMZ so all that is accessible is the Internet.

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Recently, all Internet connectivity decided to stop working at home.  I tracked the problem down to my 2wire 2700HG-B DSL modem that was the more reliable of the two (my other is an Actiontec gt701-wg) that was just dropping packets into the ether somehow.  So, I put my Actiontec back in service briefly, only to be reminded of how flaky it was, stopping responding to even pings to the LAN interface every once and a while.  I ended up bricking the Actiontec in trying to do a recovery installation to it so I could clear out the flash completely to see if that would make it more reliable.