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Polar Watch Servicing
Polar USA. Eventually everything needs a new battery. My Polar watch should be sent back to those folks for a new battery. They don’t encourage you to just get a new battery from a jeweler. Wonder if that is revenue protection or if you can really damage the waterproofing. In any case, both the watch…
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Calvin's Project: Aztecs and Mayans
Calvin’s project this year are Aztecs and Mayans. He started with some basic questions he made up himself including: # How many gods do they believe in? # Where did they worship? Here are some of the places he looked: * Google Search: mayan temple. Some fantastic pictures of Mayan temples * “Aztec Temples”:http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=aztec+temple&sa=N&tab=wi. Same…
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On to 250GB
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Decision at 250 GB: Maxtor MaXLine Plus II vs. Western Digital WD2500JB – Conclusion: All-Around Talent vs. Business Type. Well it had to happen, now you can get 250GB in a single drive. So a terabyte in a home with a couple of PCs is very likely.
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Wireless need to know
Toms’ Hardware has some great guide. Here are two I thought were very interesting for those with wireless networks: * Tom’s Hardware Guide Networking: Wireless Bridging Need-To-Know – Introduction. A good introduction to bridging multiple wireless networks together. You can daisy chain wireless networks all around the house if you are careful. * “Wifi Performance”:http://www17.tomshardware.com/network/20030502/index.html.…
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Venture Capital Returns
U of M VC Returns. Interesting report from silicon valley on Venture Capital Returns. Read’m and weep.
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It's Coming! The Matrix Reloaded
Seattle Cinerama. The matrix is nearly here. Tickets from “MovieTickets.com”:http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=5881. The 12:45PM show looks good. There is also 7AM on May 15-17 if you can believe that! I’m go for the week after the Thursday it opens. That makes it May 23 I think. Thanks to the amazing “Digital Remastering”:http://www.killermovies.com/m/thematrixreloaded/articles/2995.html technology that IMAX has. Then…
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Training Right
Train Right with Carmichael Training Systems. So, I finally decided to try this and get more systematic. I’m going to start recording my times and what I do in this blog. Blogs are such a good place to store things as Zagula points out. Here is what I did today: * 72 minutes in zone…
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Guavamundo
guavamundo. Our latest project is at Guavamundo. Not much there yet, but watch this space!
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Star Wars: Is there hope
Zagula spells trouble: Coming from Genndy Tartakovsky and More. There is hope for Star Wars. For me at least Star Wars II was unwatchable. What a fall from grace. Anyway, John says some real geniuses are doing the final version. For me anyway, part of the problem is that there is zero suspense. It is…
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Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Two BREW apps in the market. Satoshi is a long time friend and business partner. It is cool that his applications are now available in the market. Kudos to you.
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User Interface is an Art, but Trackbacks are not…
Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art but Trackbacks are not. Satoshi is absolutely right that Trackbacks are way too hard to understand and differentiate from comments. Interesting to think about the mobile analog to trackback and how that should work. Seems like, when I update, I should get a ping and then see…
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Mothers Day and Other Gifts
What to get for the girl who has everything. Well, that is hard, but here are some things I’ve been looking at: * A Cook’s Wares – www.cookswares.com. First on the list is a Cream Whipper. Amazing way to get whipped cream for those fresh strawberries. BTW, Cookswares, is a very nice online site. So…
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Connie's New Blackberry
RIM BlackBerry 6210- Karbon Systems. Connie’s Blackberry has finally given up the ghost and she doesn’t want to learn something new. We got it two years ago from buy.com and Aether and it was a nightmare service. Things breaking with the service all the time and mysterious failures with the device. But, it worked super…
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Getting Ready: Food and Trainers
I’m getting ready for the STP. Just read Chris Carmichael’s training book (the one with Lance on the cover). Was helpful. Increased average speed on my run to work (10 miles almost exactly) from an average of 16 to 17.4 mph just by the pedaling advice and some training. Here are other things I’m doing:…
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MTB Stem
My buddy “Gary”:http://beagledreams.com needs a shorter stem. I volunteered to help him out. He has a Gary Fisher Sugar 3+ and it is a 110mm stem, but he probably needs a 90mm stem. Here are links if you need to do the same thing by checking out Stem Reviews, Specs and Shopping Information. A good…
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The facts about DeCSS
DeCSS Central. Here are the facts on CSS and DeCSS
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Wifi The Real Tier
We’ve been talking quite a bit about wireless and how things to get going. It is amazing how many APs are just happening with just T-mobile. There is a top down strategy from: * Seattle Wireless – Connecting People To Wi-Fi. This has gone from a free for everyone into a pay service. * “Surf…
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Lake Washington Elevation and Weather
Rivers: Lake Washington. Kind of a fun site. Tells you water conditions and levels in Seattle. Amazing what they put on the web these days. “NOAA Seattle”:http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Seattle/. The source of all weather. Actually, in many ways more interesting that watching the news or weather.com.
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Bi-wiring and Speaker Cables
I’m in the middle of changing the cables I have in my home theater. There is quite a bit written and it is a little confusing. I have an incredible mismash of cables and they are coming apart. I want to make them neat and clean. Here are some relevant things to look at: *…
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Calvin's Sayings
Calvin has been just incredible at his little pearls of wisdom this year. There are two that are posted on the board in his classroom right now. Great to remember. Maybe everything we learned was in Kindergarten? Everyone is good in their own way If you don’t fail you are not trying new things
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STP 2003 or Bust!
Cascade Bicycle Club: Group Health Group Health Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic. “Hoops”:http://scbhooper.com has done it a million times. I wanted to do it last year, but had a bike accident that put me out of commission, but I’m healthy this year and here we go. It’s 200 miles long and there were 7,170 riders…
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Long range Wifi
SeattleWireless: Hardware Comparison. Hoops was asking about how to bridge from one access point to another so you can get WiFi coverage where you don’t have an Ethernet port. It is hard to find this, but Seattle Wireless does a great job of noting the important hackazoid features. Like how much power these things really…
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Breaking the 100 meter barrier
I’m trying to get a run down about “100 meters”:http://www.mcpprep.com/WebHelp/ccna/ccna_obj_56.htm down our hill. The main issue is that there are plenty of limitations of Fast Ethernet (technically called 100BaseT). So I’ve been looking at alternatives: h4. Using Fiber Optic Cable. This option basically means upgrading to a 1Gb link (wow!) CABLExpress Technologies – The Network.…
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Ethernet distance limits
Ethernet Distance limits and cable types. A good summary of distance limits for various types of cable. I need about a 400 foot run and this is just outside the 100 meter limit of standard 100BaseT (a.k.a. 802.3) on Cat 5. See the table for more information.
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What Happened to the Iraq Army?
War in Iraq. A good analysis of what might have happened to the Iraq Army. I would love to know the real story.
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Flight Risk Update
The Agonist: Flight Risk. How does the Agonist get his information. More enticing details about this woman who has run away.
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Summer 2003 Movies: The Matrix and The Terminator
I am in fat city. With all the depressing economic and political news. It is nice to be able to escape. This has just been an incredible year for my kind of movies. First of course has been Lord of the Rings. I could watch it 100 times in Paul Allen’s Cinerama. But, look what’s…
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Shifting — When 27 is really 19
Uncle Al. A great newsletter that I get and some good advice too. This one I haven’t seen covered, but what do you do with the zillions of gears. I haven’t doing it right for a while. DEAR UNCLE AL: I just had a 9-speed drivetrain put on my bike. I’m wondering how many cogs…
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Biking Accessories: Gloves, Arm and Knee Warmers
All of mine have now fallen apart. So off to get some more accessories like gloves and knee warmers: * Bicycling.com – Castelli Ambros Gloves. These aren’t in production anymore. At least I can’t find them. The equivalent look like Castelli Simple Gloves. $25 so they are quite a bit. I ended up getting some…