A Collection of Daily Wisdom by Dennis Sylvester Hurd since September 2003.

It stayed grey and the sun wasn't visible here today. Is this really what I was waiting for though the long, hot summer?

Hi, I enjoyed the article and (Friday's) picture. On my last visit (to San Francisco), I spent an afternoon at Fisherman's Wharf watching them (sea lions) and strolling around. Yes, they are noisy and smelly. But so are a lot of people I know!

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Here is an interesting picture from San Francisco that we took this week. There were hundreds of California sea lions at Pier 39 of Fisherman's Wharf. They were a bit smelly and a lot loud! The history of their time there is rather short.

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Bret, you should go with a G router / access point. The 802.11g protocol is new and about five times faster; whereas, 802.11b will eventually be replaced. Thankfully, G is backwards compatible too. Next, choose a notebook card and you'll be able to connect to the Net at Starbucks, select McDonald's, and other public access locations. (Who wants to use a keyboard after eating greasy fries? ... Oops couldn't happen, I forgot they're evil carbs.) After you get a card in your regular PC, you would have a wireless LAN to share files between computers. You could access your ADSL from anywhere in the house. The range is about 160 feet, so you could set it up to share Internet with neighbours too.

Click this link: circuitcity.com - Wireless Networking

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Got back from San Francisco into Vancouver at about 9 pm last night. Marvelous time. It's just shy of a two hour flight so there's no reason not to do it again ... soon. Oh, and even though we were there yesterday, we didn't vote for Arnie.

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There's something very eccentric about San Francisco. It just feels a bit quirky and a bit foreign. Any city that keeps such a varied public transit system deserves my vote! The cable cars are from another time warp and city transit collects antiquated street cars; not for a museum, but for use. Only unique characters would flock to a city built over, around, and through hills ...

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Daragh ... thank you very much meeting us and dinner! You have a cool car and live in a neat city. I was wearing my camera why didn't I take any pictures? Well, Chinatown was an easy walk today.

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The Castro district celebrated it's 30th Street Fair today. The weather was rather warm. (The city does manage to grow date trees along Fisherman's Wharf.)

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