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Chains and things
Chain Maintenance. Just replaced my chain. First time I’ve ever worn one out. I should have checked earlier. I had thought the grinding was due to a loose bottom bracket, but in retrospect, it was probably the chain. That’s not mentioned in diagnostic manuals I have. So something for people to watch out for. If…
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Bicycle Tires: 3 months later
Bicycle Tires Trials. Back in November, I wore out my Continental GP3000s. Since then, I’ve tried a bunch of different tires. Here’s the scoop at least for me: * “Sdeals”:http://sdeals.com. They have the absolute best prices on tires I’ve seen. * “Continental GP 3000”:http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/de/en/continental/bicycle/themes/tires/race/grand_prix_3000/grand_prix_3000_en.html. These I actually wore out after 2,000 miles. At least the…
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Photography Blog
PhotographyBLOG -:- Home. Had to happen. Here’s a photography oriented blog. Surprised there aren’t more of them.
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Halogen Par30 light bulbs
Halogens PAR30. We have way too many light bulbs in our house and end up paying full retail when we need them. The $10 PAR30’s finally cracked me. So, a quick google search and here are some online places like bulbco.com that has them for $6. Good to know for all the many light bulbs…
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MovableType on Red Hat Linux 8.0
I’m getting a Linux server up for a new project over at Ignition. It remains amazing to me how hard integration is with the Windows world. Here are some notes on getting it running that I hope help others: * “Samba and file shares”:http://justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Connecting_to_SMB_Shares_from_Linux.html. The documentation for Samba is not very clear. Here is one…
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PMA 2003
Nothing like becoming an instant expert. Gary told us about PMA, the big industry trade show. Thanks to the Internet, it’s easy to find out what was announced. Here are some sites to check out: * Digital Photography Review. Has a good list of products. Check the reviews of the Adobe “Album”:http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/adobephotoshopalbum/ and the very…
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Long Distance
Now that Connie’s trip to Senegal went off so well, I thought it was a good time to look at our long distance carrier. We’ve been an AT&T customer forever mainly because I’ve been scared about call quality, but playing with these 1010 services has really changed my mind. Everest for instance has been good…
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Camera Flashes, Filters, Bags and more on Lenses
Now that I’ve figured out what camera and lense to get, there are all those other accessories. Good thing the internet is filled with folks reviewing the stuff. Here’s a quick list: h4. Flashes An additional thing, but I expect to be doing quite a bit of shooting indoor even though I’ll be using ISO…
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Jim Allchin and Google
pseudorandom. Frank points out Jim’s comments in the Seattle Times about Google and Longhorn. PR gaff no doubt, but I’m sure he’s been thinking about the problem for a long time!
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Lance Armstrong Separates
Jeffrey A. Cross: Armstrong And Wife Separate. How depressing. Lance and Kristin celebrate. I think I’ll buy Connie some flowers.
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Area 51
Area 51 Black Aircraft. Can’t remember where I found it, but here’s a list of strange aircraft around Area 51. Kind of nerdy, but what the heck.
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Word Bursts
Daypop Top Word Bursts. Thanks to Joshua for this reference. Word Bursts monitor the use of terms in blogs. It is amazing what pinging a site can do. Lots easier than having a spyder. Anyway, fun to watch new words burst onto the Internet via blogs.
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Bike Works
Bike Works! Helping Columbia City Ride Bicycles.. This is a great organization. You can donate your bikes to them. You can also teach inner city kids how to repair bikes and then if they work long enough, then they get to keep them for themselves. A neat idea. We have a bunch of kids bikes…
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Popfile Everywhere
I’ve been using Popfile for a few months now for my personal accounts. Version 0.17 has been very robust and for me has a 99.8% accuracy in detecting Spam. It is truly awesome. In digging around, there are quite a few pieces that are available that make it very practical to use: # “Popfile”:http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/. This…
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Web Hosting Advice
Brad Choate: Oh the servers, they are a changin’…. Some great advice on dedicated servers. I’m very happy with “Mark”:http://tqhosting.com but if I ever need a dedicated server here’s some great advice.
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Ski Boot Fitting
The last time out with the kids convinced me to go get a great pair of ski boots plus some great advice from Mason Flint. This turns out to be an incredibly complex topic and getting the right fit is hard. Thanks to the great folks like Kevin at “Sturtevants”:http://www.sturtevants.com/ I spent four hours trying…
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Finding Connie on the Web
Connie says she doesn’t have a neat web site. A quick “google”:http://google.com/search?q=constance+mao search shows that it’s true, in fact this entry is one of the top ones. In fact, she’s the #1 hit for Constance Mao on google. What pride: * “University of Washington”:http://depts.washington.edu/obgyn/FacultyFiles/Faculty.html#?http://depts.washington.edu/obgyn/FacultyFiles/ContentFiles/Mao.html. Where she works * “HPV Paper”:http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v288n14/abs/joc11676.html. A Jama paper she coauthored.…
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At Work
Connie is right now working at University of Washington, check out her not very filled out bio on University of Washington
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Upgrade to Movable Type 2.62
MT 2.62 is here. Tongfamily is up to the latest version of MovableType. Biggest feature is that text editing is now easier since they have a plugin architecture to do this New Text Editors for MT. Now there are a pile of text editors. I’ll have to install and test them now. More work for…
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Demo 2003 Report
Demo Report. A good report of what is hot at Demo 2003. Eileen Gittens told me that the interestings things were: Lifescape. A photo management. Liked their CEO. Mock 3. 3-D from 2-D photos. Big Fix. Security company Digital Sun. Doing a wireless sprinkler control add-on
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t68 User Guide
t68 User Group. It is amazing how bad the manual is for the Sony Ericsson t68. Fortunately, the Internet saves the day. Here’s a great how-to site to help setup the POP3 mail feature for instance.
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The Final Word On International Calling
I never really finished this full analysis, so here it is. This is for traveling to Canada and also calling into Senegal. Here is the strategy I ended up using: 10-10 Phone Rates. This appears to be a fantastic and honest site that analyzes the cost to call out using the 1010 dial around services.…
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Ski Boots
Ski boot reviews.htm. Mason Flint, an old buddy from Microsoft, told me that the best thing to do is to get great boots and then rent the best skis each season. makes sense to me. Here are some boot reviews. Boot Fitters. A web site devoted just to fitting ski boots. Amazing. Says Issaquah Sport…
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Santa Cruz Blur
I’ve been looking for a mountain bike for a while and had my heart set on an Ellsworth Truth. Seemed perfect, but then the Blur came along and now there are too many choices again. But, here are some reviews of it that make it sound so sweet: Phat Tire. One place for pricing it
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What phone should I buy?
Steve ask for phones. Great question steve about what phone to buy. It’s an incredibly complex question, even if you just live in Seattle. Here’s an update on it, for more, you can search this blog for the occasional irreverent entries. First of all, I’m going to assume you are more or less like me,…
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Second Life
Crazy on-line world. Must to be fun to have a second virtual life. I can’t wait for Philip to get the thing out of beta. Echoes of the gay 90s (not a bad description of the 1995-2000 era IMHO).
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Skis for Me and the Kids
Now that we are on our third season of skiing, its pretty clear that I and the boys love it, so maybe its time to get off the rentals. Something tells me that the spring clearances will be great this year because of the recession and poor skiing out here. So, here’s to some more…
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Where are the Cycling Blogs?
Pack Fill – A Cycling Blog. Amazingly, this is the only google search hit for someone writing about bicycling and cycling with a blog. How sad. Actually, I’m the first hit. OTOH, this guy is a category 2 road racer, so I have to show a lot of respect
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Ericsson T68 Unlock
Connie has an Ericsson t68 and is going overseas. She will need to use a local carriers SIM card, but her phone is locked. Here is what I found out about unlocking: WirelessAdvisor.com Forums – Do you provide, or need, unlocking services? Read this. Be aware that T-Mobile and Cingular will provide you with your…
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Calling from home: VOIP vs. 1010 vs. Calling Cards
As part of looking all this calling stuff overseas, I hit a bunch of VOIP sites. A pretty interesting review. I actually tried some of them from Ignition and they were amazingly good and cheap too. These are sorted in Google page rank order and the analysis shows they are great for the US, but…