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Lance-wannabes: New Trek and CicloSport
VeloNews: 2003 Tour de France Special Coverage h4. Trek aims for new heights with Madone Waterloo has been particularly tight-lipped about its latest high-end road racer, which will replace the 5900 Superlight. Lucky for us, information has just leaked out on the bike that Lance (and possibly his teammates) will race on in certain stages…
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Tour de France Starts Today!
Yippee, the Tour de France starts today and so does my collection of TdF blogs and other sites. Here we go: * Jeffrey A. Cross: Tour De France Trivia. Jeffery has got all the trivia about the 100th anniversary TdF * “canal OLN site”:http://www.letour.fr/2003/us/index.html. The officical site for OLN. Too bad Lance lost today. Placed…
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Rivendell Review…
PR3. One of my favorites sites, Roadbikerider reviews a all-purpose bike calledl the Rivendell Rambouillet. I almost bought it just because I’m a Lord of the Rings fan. In any case, for $2K, you get a 22 lb bike that is indestructible. Something to think about. Doesn’t have couplers though.
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iRider
a little ludwig goes a long way: iRider. Ludwig like iRider as a browser. Gary likes Firebird. I’ve tried Firebird. A nice one, but it is kind of true that I’m satificed on browsers. What more is there. Now when you ask me about PTP programs its a whole different story. Or photo management.
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Why Aren't PCs Faster?
a little ludwig goes a long way: Partitioning of processing power. Great thoughts as usual by John. Main question is, why when we’ve moved from 300 MHz to 3 GHz processors, standard Windows and Office applications aren’t 10x faster at all. But, with video games, we are seeing incredible advances. Maybe it has to do…
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Error blog
a little ludwig goes a long way: Audit Blog?. Another great idea by ludwig. A blog makes much more sense than the system event log. Error should really be free form text rather than forcing things into fields that don’t mean much. Just look at the audit log of XP sometimes as an example. Then…
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United Airlines — Not!
united.com. Yikes, after flying with them this week, I won’t do it again for a long time. It took us hours to get out of O’Hare but the scary thing is why given that it was clear and beautiful and it wasn’t about weather, but I think about minimum maintenance and a totally demoralized workforce:…
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Campy 2004 and other cool hardware
Well, the Tour de France is about to start and delightful new gear is appearing. First there is the new Shimano Durace 10-speed coming out. No word on whether they are going to do a triple, but given that it is 1/3 less than Campagnolo Record, good to hear. Also, Campy Chorus is going to…
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Ritchey Break-Away
Google Groups: View Thread “Ritchey “Break-Away” bike — opinions?”. Been looking at a bunch of custom bicycles with S&S couplings. Great in the $1300-1600 for the frame plus $400 for the couplings. The Break-Away is an $1,100 frame, but what about the quality. Here are some notes from rec.bicycles.tech. Great the way google caches and…
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PTP and Information Hiding
While researching the latest move by the RIAA to “sue”:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10195 individuals, I ran across some interesting papers: * CSC 8990 Seminars. The first paper is on how PTP actually works and a good description of how to use conventional digital signature techniques to hide who is talking to whom and about what. Also learned a…
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Campagnolo Derailleurs Explained
CAMPAGNOLO 2003 RANGE – INNOVATION. _It’s been confusing which of the three different derailleurs you should get. Here’s a simple explanation_ The Campagnolo Record, Chorus and Centaur groupsets offers three models of rear derailleurs with short, medium and long cage. The rear derailleur with the short cage is for equipping the 2×10 drivetrain, while the…
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Carbon Fiber: It's brittle too…
Well, as most folks know, I just love carbon fiber. It’s in just about every component that I have on my bike. Today though, I learned that it is a miracle material for sure, but it does have its downsides. Caveat Emptor. h4. Campagnolo Record Seatpost: Don’t overtighten even once! My good buddy Dave has…
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Singletrack Ezine
Singletrack – Home. A ezine from Britain. Got a good review from “Adventure Cycling”:http://adventurecycling.org as a place to look for mountain touring and other things.
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Fishy, Fishy
_This is Peta-Jane, Alex’s teacher, favorite poem. Amazing that he could do a Haiku, but not surprising given how mathematical it is, you know, 5 syllable, then 7 then 5_ Fishy, Fishy Fishy in a tank Swimming in the water blue Swaying in the weeds Fishy fish My fish in a tank On a hill…
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Shuttle SB61G2 and DDR 400 Memory Hang
Google Search: shuttle sb61g2 problem. It took forever to figure out this problem becuase the answers are in a newsgroup and not yet indexed on the web. In short, when I assembled my Dad’s PC, I kept getting hangs when running at full 200MHz for the CPU. Turns out there is a problem with the…
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Hyperthreading
Ars Technica: Introduction to Multithreading, Superthreading and Hyperthreading (10/2002). I finally got a new Intel “Prescott” chipset for my dad. Supports something called Hyperthreading. Make it look like one processor is two to Windows and Linux. Here’s a good explanation of what is going on.
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Exchange Rate Depression
With the drop in the dollar. All my favorite overseas places are not longer price competitive. The pound when from $1.44 to $1.69 overnight. So, in buying things, you can either get them for list price from “Excel”:http://excelsports.com or you can get some discount from “Licktons”:http://www.lickbike.com. I am not haunting the ebay auctions more too.…
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Baby Clothes
Doodlebaby. Hat tip to Zagula for this. Alway slooking for great places to buy gifts.
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History of the Trek OLCV
History and Revisions of the TREK OCLV Frameset. Great review of the history of the most famous. Thanks to Lance Armstrong frame right now. Didn’t know that they had such a special front fork. Also love their “gush”:http://www.chainreaction.com/oclvbest.htm about the OCLV frame. It’s just 2.3 lbs for the OLVC 120 and 2.2 for the OLCV…
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Self Defense Classes
Ludwig seeks Self Defense courses in the area. John is looking for self-defense courses. I’ve heard great things about Home Alive and Connie is on the board of Womens Funding Alliance, so I’ve seen a grant proposal from them. Don’t know about the others. I’ve been taking martial arts courses off and on for the…
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Qwest DSL Ethernet?
Qwest | DSL | Customer Service. My poor friend Robert is trying to get his DSL to connect to a router box and he can’t seem to find the Ethernet connection. His only seems to have a Cisco DSL modem with only a USB connection. Confusing since both the Cisco 675 and 678 are Ethernet.…
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Road bike tire advice
RoadBikeRider.com. Every road bike rider should get their newsletter. Here’s some great advice about tires I haven’t seen elsewhere. I’ve been throwing away my tires a little early, so this is a great set of tips: Dear Uncle Al: How can I tell when it’s time to replace my tires? And does it make sense…
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Color Blackberry is coming
Forbes.com: A Splash Of Blackberry Color. Yahoo, Blackberry is finally doing a color version. I like the 6210 form factor and the 7230 is a color version. Confusingly, the thing is actually “blue” đ Anyway, in Europe, it will sell for $300 while the monochrome version goes for $200. These are bigger subsidies than what…
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k-collector
Integrating blogs and DMOZ. Interesting project call k-collector for integrating blogs and directory categories automatically.
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Being successful
Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: No silver bullet. Great pieces about being successful. Sad thing is that many startups will never get to version 3.0. The trick is how to have enough success and funding to get there.
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Venture Capital Blogs
VentureBlog. Had to happen, even the VC business is getting a blog community. This is a pretty good one.
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Bill Owens
Bill Owens – Right On!. I’ve gotten a chance to get to know Bill. An amazing guy. Ex-Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Hoops discovers the truth at 50
Health Study for those over 50. Steve discovers that there really are no rules when it comes to what’s healthy to do or not.
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What's Wrong with VC?
Joel on Software – Fixing Venture Capital. Great piece by Joel on what is wrong with the Venture business. Not to mention a nice font. Hat tip to Ludwig again for finding.
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Ohio Geek who knows
John and his Jag. I love the fact that Ludwig knows who he is. He just bought a Chevy and is selling his Jag.