The AutoSock is a great alternative to traditional tire chains. The machine washable and TÜV approved "socks/chains" are easy to fit and remove The best news for people familiar with winter chains are that the AutoSocks are very quite, does not cause noise or vibrations and are compatible with all electronic safety systems (ESP, ABS). A great thing to have handy considering the season. Thanks for the tip Max!

God's Debris by Scott Adams can be downloaded for free as a PDF The great news is that it the e-book is not DRM protected so you do not have to go crazy to read it on on a PC or Pocket PC Via Dilbert.Blog

The EICMA show was -big- and there was, as I hoped , a lot of neat bikes. I will leave the technical analysis to the experts and post my images and notes instead. First of all; I am sad to say that the organization did not impress me. The Milano Fiera show room is brand new and a lot of (tax payer) money was spent creating it. I spent most of the morning sitting in a traffic jam and walking through the, still under construction, site.Having said that; the internals of the Milano Fiera is nice, well organized and there were no long lines for buying the tickets. Yamaha a big and loud presenter which makes sense considering their 50 year anniversary. I tried sitting on ...

Windows Live hosts your e-mail and Instant Messaging for your domains for free with Windows Live Custom Domains The beta service allows you to host up to 20 e-mail accounts for your domains, each with a 250MB inbox. Mail is automatically filtered using Microsoft SmartScreen technology and scanned for viruses. I wonder how long it will take for Google to offer an ever better service based on gmail?

This should be great fun:.. It is, if possible, as cool as the big motorcycle show in Milano these days! MotoGP star Valentino Rossi will participate with Collin McRae in the Monza Rally Show this weekend. Rossi will drive with former World Champion Carlo Cassina as the co driver in a Subaru Impreza. WRC Legend Colin McRae and Rossi will race the best Italian drivers in the the Master Show Sunday. Other well known figures from the MotoGP paddock will participate; Davide Brivio, Graziano Rossi (Valentino's dad) and Alessio Salucci (aka Uccio, Valentino Rossi's close friend and ‘right-hand man’) Tickets for the Monza Rally can be purchased online for ...

The worlds biggest motorcycle show, the 63rd International Motorcycle Exhibition is on in Milano Italy is open to the public from Thursday 17 to Sunday 20. It is big. We're talking a 60.000 square meters exhibition hall with its own outdoor area to where you can have fun with the different motorcycle categories in MotoLive to live your passion as a protagonist; Freestyle, Supermotard, Supercross, Quad and Acrobatic Trial, Driving School Test Drive, ... The full fare ticket at 16 euro gives you the right to 2 free runs on the public transport system. Melandri attends today and Thursday. Max Biaggi was scheduled to attend on Saturday but I am not sure if he will attend ...

After a lot of rumors Google Base is finally live (in beta of course :-) I have tried to use it the last month without much luck as it has been down more than up. It seems a lot more stable today even considering the initial onslaught after they announced the service. The idea behind Google Base is simple: write an entry and describe it with the proper attributes. Items in different categories will have different attributes; Job Posts have an employer attribute whereas Recipes have ingredients etc. I am still playing around with it so I haven't made up my mind. Is it a big categorized community blog, a content editing system, another craigslist, or neither, or a mix ...

Several MotoGP stars, including seven time World Champion Valentino Rossi, will take part in the Moto & Miti Championshow this weekend in Pesaro. The popular Motorshow is hosted by Valentino's father, and former Grand Prix winner, Graziano. “The idea is quite simple: the stars of the MotoGP World Championship joins us in Pesaro to have fun, the only rule of the competition is to let them enjoy themself,” explains Graziano Rossi. “Many motorshows have lost the passion factor from their sight, always reducing the space dedicated to two-wheel racing. The Championshow is a celebration of the sport and its stars. In Pesaro, there are no longer barriers ...

Great news! This excellent article on NY Times covers a lot of different ways to improve the human interaction with computers. Some of them are pretty obvious: Hit an astronaut with a textual interruption, and he was likely to ignore it, because it would simply fade into the text-filled screens he was already staring at. Blast a horn and he would definitely notice it - but at the cost of jangling his nerves. Czerwinski proposed a third way: a visual graphic, like a pentagram whose sides changed color based on the type of problem at hand, a solution different enough from the screens of text to break through the clutter What may not be obvious to most people is that ...

The High Capacity External Laptop Battery Pack Model PowerPack 130 by BatteryGeek is a must have gadget for anyone spending a lot of time using their laptop or tablet PC on battery power. It lasts up to 3 times longer than a normal laptop battery. Just connect the laptop using one of the 9 supplied connectors and the laptop thinks it is connected to a normal power supply. The laptop runs on the external power and recharges its internal battery if needed. mobile guru jkOnTheRun has a lot of good things to say about it. The Power Pack 130 is the big brother (1kg and 20x12x2cm) of the family and gives the longest run time. The other packs are smaller and lighter if you ...

This is a gift for someone with a lot of money to burn on a true Trekkie friend. A cool $2.499 buys you The ultimate Star Trek collection The ultimate collection comes with a whopping 212 DVDs. No, that is not a typo; it has two hundred and twelve DVDs! Here's the ultimate collection for the ultimate fan. This 212-disc behemoth encompasses five broadcast series and 10 feature films and is, with a few exceptions, all the Trek a Trekker could want. Start with the original series, which in 1966 set out to boldly go where no series had gone before, beginning a three-year mission that led to a franchise that would last decades. The original Enterprise crew was led by ...

We went to the Keith Haring show in Milano this weekend. Our 6 year old daughter loved the colorful designs. The 3 year old a bit less but all in all I would declare the trip a success :-) A lot of paintings, sculptures and several video clips covering the life and work of Keith Haring. Many items I had not seen before from the different periods of his, too short, life. La Triennale is is open Tuesday - Sunday 10:30-20:30. Practical informationThe normal ticket costs € 8,00There are cheaper tickets for € 5,50 for people attending the military service, kids (6-18), students, over 60, etc.People with a ATM (metro) subscription only pay € 4,50Groups ...

Coop in Centro Commerciale Metropoli has a sale on a lot of IT material these days. Below are some of the offers that caught my eye when I went there. Verbatim Store 'n' Go USB DrivesThe Verbatim Store 'n 'Go 1GB version costs 59.50. The 512MB version costs 29.90 60% discount on Keenex DVD +R and - REach DVD +R and DVD -R come in a standard jewel case and cost 0.59 cents. I was afraid that they would not work with my picky laptop DVD burner but so far so good. The first DVD I burned failed at 85% and I thought it was the cheap DVD. No such “luck”. It is my hard disk that is slowly giving up after a lot of (ab)use over the years :-( External 2 1/2 inch ...

Playing around with Google Reader and GreatNews, I missed Bloglines mobile. They have finally fixed the problems I mentioned last year. Bloglines Mobile has several neat features: It is automatically used if you connect with a Pocket PC. No need to remember a special url, just go to www.bloglines.com Light weight pages for fast browsing The frames used in the full version has been discarded in favor of a simple indented list of “My Feeds“. Click a feed to get the details full screen: I have never been so up to date with my blog roll. A spare minute is all I need to check a few feeds with the Pocket PC. But, as always, I have some suggested ...

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards was one of the first games I installed on my 8086. I was young, learning English, and had a very hard time with the startup questions and some of the puzzles. But it was great fun and kept me up late for weeks. Keep in mind that this was way before the age of web sites with cheat codes so I had finished the game the hard way: by solving the puzzles. (Larry) I always thought Al Lowe was some kind of word play on "Love" but no, Al Lowe is real and one hell of a guy judging by the Tom's Hardware interview: (Al Lowe) ...J: And that's kind of what I wanted to ask you about - should people be making such a big deal ...