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We have decided to be rid of trans fat in our daily diet. So, no more Oreo (in fact, no more commercial biscuits) for Jasper. The problem is, without the general public becoming fully aware of it, trans fat has creep into all the manufactured foodstuff. If any manufacturer claims that a certain food product [...]

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WTF?! This story doesn’t make sense. It’s got to be a hoax or something.

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Hardly any Vitamin C in Ribena sold in NZ.

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Ever since we bought a Wii, I have paid more attention to game consoles. In fact, I am considering getting an XBox 360 for those FPS games (~HK$3K for the whole set, no need to maintain a WinXP/Vista computer and no need to buy a HK$2K video card).
Sony is in big trouble, and this [...]

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The Lady’s brother is upgrading to a nice flat panel TV, and we have taken over their nice Panasonic 29” big TV. Despite being only a few years old, there are two burnt-in marks, the TVB logo on the right, and the i-Cable Channel 18(?) on the left. The brother-in-law’s household obviously leaves the TV [...]

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Jeremy Zawodny just suffered from a hardware RAID corruption and has decided to go back to software RAID.
I switched my home server to using a hardware RAID not too long ago, and am very happy with it, and I have promised myself that I would switch mother from using a software RAID over to a [...]

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Spiderman 3. Jasper loves Spiderman.
300. Spartans! Not for Jasper.
The Simpsons.
Fantastic 4.
The Ghostrider.
TMNT.
Harry Potter. Maybe.

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Cowboy Neal Test. Read more about the Slashdot Subculture.

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The Oly E-410. Eyelets, nice!

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He was admitted into hospital last week, went into coma on Friday night or early Saturday morning, and passed away on Saturday morning around 11:30.
Grandpa was 97, and in general had a good life (well AFAIK). May he RIP.

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