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Last Minute Bike Shopping
So here is what I finally got to get ready for the STP. Lots of miscellaneous last minute things: * Campagnolo Record C10 Ultra Chain. “Biketiresdirect”:http://www.biketiresdirect.com/productdetail.asp?p=CARCH has them for $48 plus a flat $6 shipping per order. A good price. Slightly lower than $50 from “Colorado Cyclist”:http://www.coloradocyclist.com/common/products/productdisplay2_v2.cfm?PRRFNBR=30826&CGRFNBR=479&CRPCGNBR=479&CI=1,225,479&TextMode=0 if you hit the $150 minimum for free…
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Timbuk2 Reflector Tails
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Veloflex Pave or Veloflex Black
“Roadbikereview.com”:http://www.roadbikereview.com/wheels/tires-clincher/PLS_2489_913crx.aspx has a pretty decent list of great tires. I’ve been using Veloflex Open Pave for a while now. Just 180 grams and super fast. They have been pretty durable now. They only last about 2,000 miles for me in the rear mainly because if you hit glass with them, they cut fast. You can…
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Kool Kovers Bike Shoe Cleat Covers
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MDX Navigation DVD Order Form
Acura Order Form. Hard to find, but this is where you can order updated Acura Navigation System DVDs.
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MDX HandsFreeLink
HandsFreeLink : Frequently Asked Questions HandsFreeLink is standard on the 2004 and 2005 Acura TL models, the 2005 RL, and any 2005 MDX equipped with the Touring Package. This feature lets you connect any Bluetooth mobile phone to the onboard speaker system and microphone of an MDX. A great feature never discussed. Here is how…
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New Balance KJ 745 and KJ766NG
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Podcast Recording Equipment
PORTABLE PODCASTING RECORDING EQUIPMENT RECOMMENDATIONS | The Sound Professionals, Inc.. I’ve been getting things from Sound Professionals. They are great. Now they are pre bundling equipment for podcasting which is great. Unlike trying to mate an iRiver iFP-799 with a microphone, these are more dedicated devices. I actually think while more expensive these will ergonomically…
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Sony T-350
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Record CT Crank on sale
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Computer Ergonomics
“Enrique”:http://voyagercapital.com/team/team_godreau.htm reminded me how important sitting properly in front of a computer (ugh, almost said terminal, thus dating me!). His best tips are covered in “Healthycomputer.com”:http://www.healthycomputing.com/office/setup/monitor/. h3. Position the top of your screen level with your eyes. The ideal viewing height is to have your eyes level with an imaginary line across the screen, about…
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BicycleFit Northwest
BicycleFit Northwest. Les is a great guy and now has a fitting operation that he runs out of North Bend. Used to talk with him often at Gregg’s, now he has a precision laser fitting system. Check him out.
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Seattle Bicycle Maps
SDOT Bicycle Program. If you are tooling around Seattle, there is a free map you can get. Also, they have PDFs of lots of areas plus inserts for U-District, downtown, etc. Very useful.
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Scott CR1 Team Issue
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Bib Shorts
My three pairs of Castelli Y2Pro’s are wearing out. Two have been just great, but one has a hole in the pad, the later one I got started unraveling the minute I had it. This was an ebay purchase, so caveat emptor applied. So what bib shorts to get: “Assos FI.13 S-2 Bib Shorts”:http://www.roadbikereview.com/clothing/shorts/Assos/PRD_143311_1655crx.aspx. I…
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Bike Shoes
Well, my trusty dusty Sidi Genius 4’s are finally fading. The velcro straps are wearing out and of course carbon fiber soles are all the rage, so what to get. Here are some choices: “Rocket 7 Super Stock”:http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2004/reviews/rocket7_super_stock. Heck, these shoes are made in Puyallup, so I have to give them a try. Main virture…
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Seattle Pony Baseball
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University District Fair
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Tongfamily Templates
MovableType lets you have a set of templates that it uses to generate actual files. Here’s a list of mine so folks can see how this site is constructed. With MT tags being so complicated, this seems pretty useful to me. So maybe others like “John”:http://www.theludwigs.com could do it. By the way, these are .tmpl…
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MT Categories
TEMPLATE TAGS. It has taken quite a bit of time, but I finally have gotten my categories right on this site. Now that I’ve resolved the mt.js problem, I resorted the categories logically. But, the big change is learning about this wonderful tag MTEntriesWithSubCategories In your category archive, you replace the MTEntries container that gives…
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Buttons don't work for some functions
Buttons don’t work for some functions. _Wow, this is a case where tech support really does work. Sent a note to the folks at sixapart because I couldn’t get some things to work, quite a subtle bug and hard to find since this help item isn’t indexed well and I was sure where to look._…
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ATI HDTV Adapter on Mitsubishi WS-73903 RPTV
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1271. I’ve been struggling to get my ATI 9800 Pro to connect to my Mitsubishi 73509 television. It is an older thing, but supports 1080i, 540p, 480p and of course 480i. But, I can’t seem to get it going. This is one of those $30 products with DIP switches. You connect one to the DVI…
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iPod BSOD
d2r: how to reboot an iPod photo. Well, the things aren’t perfect, I got the “Black Screen of Death” on my iPod Photo yesterday. Had it and it was working fine, put into my pocket and then got ready to play in the car and it sat there completely blank. No Apple logo, no nothing.…
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Nothing Fails
Jem Biography on Yahoo! Music. OK, who would have thought Jem is from Wales and when she ended up in London, one of her first collaborations led to one of our other favorites songs, Nothing Fails by Madonna. Who would have thought? Alex has great taste in Music. bq. Two days into her first writing…
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MTInlineEditor
MtInlineEditor – Movalog Plugins – Trac. What a great idea. This is an inline editor, so that you can look at your blog and if there is a typo, you can directly type into the entry.
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Windows Safe Mode
CHSAFE: Getting into Windows Safe Mode. I always forget the exact key sequence to get Windows into safe mode. I need this quite a bit when I switch monitors since Windows can lock into a higher resolution than an LCD can display (for instance right now I have a machine that is at 1280×1024 while…
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Besweet
BeSweet. This is *the* tool for transcoding audio. In my case, I have MP3s that are encoded from CDs at 44.1KHz, but to use it for DVD, you need to transcode it to 48KHz. There are lots of tools for this, but the most common one that is a standalone utility is besweet. You download…
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Resetting Activity Logs
Interesting to see that for my blogs, I’ve got gigantic activity logs, I’ve never looked at them and they are filled with errors. With Firefox, I found that it just thrashes with gigantic files. Gets to be 500MB of swap and then just seems to slow. This is one area where Internet Explorer is better,…
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MT-Moderate requires reinstall after MT Upgrade
Don’t Back Down – Moderate Archives. Just a reminder to folks that most of the time, when you upgrade from say 3.15 to 3.16, the plugins are fine. That isn’t true with MT-Moderate because it modifies one of the standard templates, the list_ping.tmpl, so when you do a dumb upgrade, you overwrite the file and…
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CD Media
Media – Club CD Freaks – Worlds Largest CD/DVD Community. This is where the hard core folks who study the various CD media live. _Interesting that google doesn’t index any of it, so there is still reason for blogs like mine._ An interesting factoid on “CD Freaks”:http://cdfreaks.com “poll”:http://www.cdfreaks.com/poll/26 is that 39% of all hard core…