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The Barbie Pocket Learner by Oregon Scientific appears to be my daughters favorite electronic toy! My mother purchased the oversized Blackberry clone while we were visiting California and it's one of the few toys that's kept her attention this whole time. She uses it when we go on drives, when we're in restaurants, or when we are doing something that requires her to be quiet. I know I know... bad parenting... but what else is one to do with a 21 month old toddler when parties at other tables are trying to enjoy their dinner without being disturbed by the couple with the noisy toddler?

So my 2008 GMC Acadia SLT2 AWD came with Goodyear Eagle RS/A pMetric P255/60/r19 and the vehicle reached 44.5K miles. The tires would be fine in California, but the weather in Texas has left me feeling a little unsure of their traction after a hydroplaning incident with my daughter in the backseat with the first light October 2011 rain in Austin, TX. This lead me to do a bit of research on a few tires - my options ranged from Goodyear Eagle RS-A, Michelin Latitude Tour, Firestone Destination ST, Hankook Ventus AS RH07, and the Bridgestone Dueler H/L Alenza model.

I'm sad to report that I returned my 4G LTE Motorola Droid Bionic back to Verizon Wireless off Brodie and Slaughter in Austin TX. Normally, when I enter a vehicle, I plug my phone into the auxiliary jack in my 2007 Fiji Blue Honda Civic SI so I can bump some music from Rhapsody Music Service. Issue # 1: the 4G LTE Motorola Droid Bionic on Verizon Wireless produces a loud buzzing sound when the phone is plugged into the Auxiliary port and plugged into the vehicle for charging and power purposes.

Are you interested in shooting ranges and gun clubs in austin tx? I have been doing some research on finding a location where I can shoot to my hearts delight and not break the bank at the same time. The closest location to me is in Oakhill, but my understanding is the price for a membership is around $400 for 12 months, which might be a viable option once I check out mileage to other ranges in Austin, TX and other Central Texas locations. I currently own an HK USP 45 ACP SS and an HK P2000 US V3 9mm which I enjoy shooting very much.

Happy Day! I've been waiting for Verizon Wireless to announce 4G LTE connectivity in Austin TX since they announced 4G LTE. As many of you know, I have an HTC Thunderbolt because it's the only Verizon Wireless phone that does SVDO on 3G and that alone has made all the quirks of the phone and the big fat 2750 mah battery something I've tolerated, but with this new announcement I might get a Droid Bionic or wait for a Droid HD. I've used 4G on my HTC Thunderbolt while visiting Dallas, TX. and let me tell you it's impressive...

Apache2 is configured for a beast of a system as a default. You don't really need to make changes to apache2's configuration if you're going to serve pages within your home network or to develop something internally since you're probably going to be the only person accessing this install, but you will want to make drastic changes to apace's configuration if you're serving pages to the outside world if you're using a small virtual private server or virtual dedicated server with 256mb or 512mb of memory.

nginx is a sweet low resource server that I'm using in conjunction with apache. I've noticed a lot of people having problems with the setup of nginx and apache, so I'm going to share a few snippets on how I've configured nginx to work with apache. this page is going to be dedicated to my nginx setup.

I have several domains pointed to this ip address and some of them are static pages, so I'm going to share my dynamic and static page entries in /etc/nginx/site-available/default.

Here is my entry for dynamic pages:

So I've been trying to maximize performance for drupal6, gallery2, gallery3, and drupal 7 sites with a small vps and have figured that there is a lot of misinformation out there that does not work. A majority of hecklers throwing out ideas without any resolution like they know the answer. Please shut the funk up if you don't have something constructive to provide the community.