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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.
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Firebird
Firebird Browser. Ludwig recommends it. I just downloaded Opera and Netscape and I have to say these have gotten much better. “Downloading”:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/why/ this one now.
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Eating the right fish
Farmed Salmon — Bad. Actually, there are many more things than farmed salmon that are bad. At “Seafood Watch”:http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp, there is a huge “list”:http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_regional.asp. The long and short of it is that most things that are around like bay shrimp, chilean seabass, cod, orange roughy, etc. are really bad to eat. Read the “All Fish”:http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_factsheet.asp…
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What is the Nexus?
a little ludwig goes a long way: Microsoft NGSCB. Ludwig is right, the next generation secure computing initiative called The Nexus does sound like the Matrix IV.
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Best time to start a company is now?
a little ludwig goes a long way: Tony Perkins Startup Advice. Good acvice for starting a company. I like the point about build a community first.
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Buying a PC and amusing intrigues
Tom’s Hardware Guide Motherboards & RAM: Metamorphosis from Springdale to Canterwood. Those folks at Tom’s Hardware are amazing. They figured out that the folks at ASUS activated a feature in the lowend chipset 865P that gets you an additional 5-10% performance. This normally costs you $55 more because it is only in the high-end 875P.…
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Does High Power for 802.11b Matter?
Tom’s Hardware Guide Networking: Review: Wireless SMC EliteConnect 2.4-GHz 802.11b High Power Wireless PC Card (SMC2532W-B) – Wireless Features. This is a very cheap ($50) 802.11b card that runs at 200 mW rather than the more typical 15-30 mW you’d find say in a Linksys card. Interesting result is that it can give great range,…
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Road Wheels and Disc Brakes
Wheelcraft. Australian, they make a 700c wheelset with MTB hubs. Need to see the axle spacing required. Not much written about this. These folks appear to be one of the few doing it. However one thing to watch out for is the stress. According to Alan Cline over at “Co-Motion”:http://co-motion.com, who wrote to saying: I…
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Headphones for Plane Flights
I had two hours to kill in Newark Airport. They have an amazing number of store there. Got to listen to about half a dozen headphones and try the noise cancellers. Wow, the good ones work well. Here are some recommendations: * “Headroom”:http://headroom.headphone.com/layout.php. A great souce of technical information. They sell high end headphone and…
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Weekend in the San Juans
If you get a chance to spend a weekend away in the San Juans, here are some recommendations: * San Juan Island Lodging in Friday Harbor, The Highland Inn Bed and Breakfast. Expensive, but a spectacular view. Helen has just two rooms and the look out into Haro Strait. When we were there, we arrived…
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Blackberry 6210
Connie’s Blackberry died and now the 6210 is widely available. * BlackBerry 6210. A T-mobile reseller. $249 with activiation, free car charger. $40 unlimited data or $30 if you are getting a voice plan too. Nice price. * “Karbon Systems”:http://www.karbonsystems.com/products_detail-23.html. $249 for an AT&T Wireless one. Slightly more expensives $40 basic and $50 unlimmited data.…
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Astronomy
Great notes from Cam Myhrvold about astronomy for amateurs. So I am at astronomy camp put on by the University of Arizona. Here are three very cool pieces of software/sites. “Clear Dark Sky”:http://Www.cleardarksky.com It looks at the weather forecast (wind, cloud cover, and I guess the key thing is the amount of water vapor in…