Review: Glock Entrenching Tool

By Benjy | Jan 31, 2011

An entrenching tool ( e-tool for short) is a compact digging tool which is a good thing to have in your backpack. It can be used for a variety of purposes, -digging a toilet pit, digging a shallow trench around your tent to channel off rain water, digging for roots, mundane construction projects or to [...]

Solved: Attachments sent from Outlook or Entourage show as .dat files

By Benjy | Jan 27, 2011

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I’ve had this problem reported to me sporadically for quite a while now and I thought it best to do a post on it so that I can point users to this page rather than trying to explain this to an unending list of individual users. Trying a few experiments and deliberately emailing a few [...]

Review: Pacsafe eXomesh rucksack lock

By Benjy | Jan 25, 2011

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Buying the best backpacking gear is expensive, so keeping it safe is a priority. Backpacks or rucksacks are not secured as easily as a suitcase is. Suitcases can be chained or tethered by means of a cable/chain and padlock, but how do you do that for a backpack? If you loop a reinforced chain or [...]

Review: Chico bag’s Bottle Sling

By Benjy | Jan 23, 2011

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When I bought my 40 oz (approx 1.1 liter) Klean Kanteen, I also bought a neoprene jacket made by Built NY from them. It took me quite some time -almost a year to get used to the neoprene jacket (because I was carrying my Sigg around) as it was a bit different from the simple [...]

Setting up Thunderbird or Spicebird on many machines

By Benjy | Jan 21, 2011

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…What added to the frustration, were the attempts of the software developers at the Mozilla foundation at smartening Thunderbird -probably after a beer too many with their dumb and downright stupid wizard that automagically tries to setup your email account for you .