Herro Flom Japan

There was a nasty earthquake about two minutes ago. The strongest I've felt in years. Luckily it was short. Hopefully there won't be any more. My bowels are sufficiently loosened now. It was a 4.8 on the Japanese scale and the epicenter was Tokyo Bay.

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Last night I stumbled across a used Sony Handycam HDR-HC1 Mini DV camcorder for roughly $650 and bought it on the spot. Even though it's last year's model, it's still available from online stores for between $1,300-1,600. It included all the original accessories, three free Mini DV tapes and a blank Sony 1 year warranty [...]

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I have a new motherboard, CPU and C: drive. The closest store that does repairs wanted to charge 8000 yen and spend a week to figure out what broke. It goes without saying, but since my current mobo and CPU weren't bought within the two weeks, they're both obsolete. So not matter what part is [...]

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Tony broke my PC. He won't tell me how it happened, but the symptom of the problem is that although the fans and drives power up, the BIOS won't boot. I can't test what's broken because I don't have any spare parts. Should I assume that the motherboard is fried, or could it possibly be [...]

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This is the first movie I ever edited on a computer. It was a 300MHz. PowerTower Pro Mac Clone. It cost me a fortune to upgrade that computer so I could use it to edit video. But it was still too slow to write back to the DV camera, so I hardly ever did any [...]

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