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Ah CES, the Las Vegas convention where techies, audiophiles, videophiles, gamers, and computer nerds like myself drool over the new toys that will be coming out over the next year. Today I was playing around on the internet and came across a company called OWLink that has a device that is on display at the show.

Do you hate having your home theater equipment in the same room as your TV or do you not have any room for your AV equipment where your TV is? Well the Digital Light Link is going to help you out with that.

This past weekend I had lunch at Philippe’s in Los Angeles. You may not have heard of the place before but you may have heard of the sandwich they invented - the French Dip.

Philippe’s opened in 1908 on Aliso Street. In 1918 the owner, Philippe Mathieu, accidentally dropped a roast beef sandwich he was making in a pan of meat juice. The person Philippe was making the sandwich for, a police officer, was in a rush and took the sandwich despite being soaked in juice. The next day he returned with a couple of friends asking for another sandwich soaked in meat juice. Philippe decided to put the sandwich on the menu calling it the ‘French Dip.’ No one is quite sure how Philippe got the name for the sandwich but the two most popular theories are that Philippe was French and named it after his heritage and that the police officer’s name was French.