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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…
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Getting up on Blogging
Had a great discussion about the future of blogs, mobile, etc. with some incredibly smart people (Ben Slivka, Bill Valentine, Satoshi Nakajima and Kendra Vandermulen). They asked for an easy intro to blogging. A good questions. Here are some sites to look at: * “Tong Family”:https://richtong.org. OK, a selfish announcement, you can see what the…
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The Hiltons
The Hilton Lounge – Unofficial Paris and Nicky Hilton. Someone thought the flight risk woman was Paris Hilton. Now there is a blog that does nothing but cover Paris and Nicky. Amazing.
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Flight Risk
The Agonist: A Flight Risk. With the war settling into a slow pattern, it’s time to take a break and find some other strange goings on. The best one I’ve found is about a wealthy heiress on the run from her powerful father. Much speculation about whether it is true or not. Interesting and well…
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Manuals, Manuals, Manuals
Most of the manuals that I’ve been looking for are now in PDF format on the Internet. But, I’ve noticed that they tend to disappear off the Internet as soon as the model is obsolete. So, here is a listing of components that I have, their current location on the web and a mirror on…
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Pronto Pro Programming
With my Dad’s new house, it’s given me a renewed dedication to programming his Pronto Pro that has been sitting for a year (!!!). Here are the key links: * “Remote Central”:http://remotecentral.com. Thanks much to Daniel Tonkin for maintaining this site. It has a list of pretty much every device that someone has loaded into…
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Bicycle Stem and Bars
Every 2-3 years, “Lennard Zinn”:http://www.zinncycles.com/ recommends replacing the handlebars. So, I’m off on a search for lightweight set of bars and stem. Right now I have a 3TTT Prima 199 and Icon Sterling Stem. These are pretty light. 200g and 120g respectively, but the Prima is certainly quite flexy. Also, these are 26.0 mm diameter…
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rumsfeld rids high
Rumsfeld Stands Tall After Iraq Victory (washingtonpost.com). let’s hope he uses his power well. he’s got a lot of it. from the piece he is taking over the cia and the state department in essence. and will shrink the army in favor of special ops and airpower
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Disneyland for Geeks
Google Search: disneyland guide. Connie is thinking about going to Disneyland and was wondering what the best way to do this is. The prices are truly low right now. Here are some guides we found: * “Disneyland at About”:http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/disneyland/. Good suggestions about time to travel, Fastpass and Ridemax. Good to know the tips and tricks.…
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Travel with a Bike
Ritchey BreakAway Bike. A real dilemma how to do this. You can get a gigantic case or a special bike made, but here’s a commercial one with a decoupler. Interesting.
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Scanners
Well, Gary has a cool Coolscan 4000 and it is amazing. I’ve been looking for a reasonably priced scanner with scratch removal: * “Steve Digicam’s Compendium”:http://www.steves-digicams.com/scanners.html. Easily the most comprehension collection of reviews on high quality scanners. * Canon just shipped the Lide 9900 which has scratch removal in a flat-bed for $399. Not bad.…
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Coolest Bike Wheels
Well, I’m pretty sure they won’t make me any faster, but these are certainly the latest in technology at: * Topolino Tech. The amazing thing about the Internet is that you can email someone there and the guy, Steve Cuomo who was VP engineering at GT sends me mail back 24 hours later. How cool…