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In August of 1990 we moved to this home in Hope, New Jersey.   At the time we were told the house was about 100 years old.   After 15 years in the home we decided that it was time to move on to a slightly larger home and the house has now been for sale for a while.  Anyone interested should look on the Burgdorf website and cross linking this post on several historic home sites.

As we lived there we cleaned, upgraded and restored many features of the house and over time discovered that the home was significantly older than we had thought.  Although I haven’t dome complete deed and title search on the home I can tell you based on construction and details uncovered during restorations that the home dates back to at least 1816, but I am sure that the core construction is significantly older than that.  

I think sometimes that I have too many interests…   Anyway on the home theater from here are the top three things I am looking for…

• Nice Home Theater Receiver with upmixing to Component or HDMI.   It must have home network MP3 streaming capability.   It should have some DSP optimization tools.
• A HD display capable of 1080p and at least 56″.  Top considerations are Samsung thin DLP, Sony XSRD.
• The last item doesn’t exist yet.   I want HD Tivo for DirecTV.

Not to much

I saw an editorial on InfoWorld today that said some people are getting paid [up to $100/hour] to search the internet.   The gist seems to be that some people are inherently better at getting results from search engines and Tom Sullivan postulates that one possible reason why is tacit knowledge.   I have to say that I can support this observation based on my experience.  My friends have always asked me technical questions that neither they or I knew the answer to because I have had consistently better ‘luck’ in getting results from internet search.  It hasn’t mattered whether it was a development question, network, systems or problem resolution. I could never figure out exactly why this is, we all use the same search engines, and we all have worked together on the same types of projects and in similar areas of IT with similar backgrounds.

One of the only difference I have ever been able to identify has been that I may have a vocabulary and general breadth of knowledge that exceeds most of the people I know. I find it interesting that there may actually be a ‘career’? as an internet searcher. Please tell me where to sign up!