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Soundtrack Reviews. Since I don’t have kids old enough to hear really new music, I primarily use movies I watch to get introduced to new sounds. Here’s a site that does nothing but track soundtracks (no pun intended). Rates them, etc. Perfect for me.

Winter Biking It’s getting cold in our neck of the woods. I think I Blogged this before, but here are some of the key places that you’ll need to go to get ready:

Pedal the perimeter of the US. Wow, a fantasy for me. Interesting to see two ordinary people ride 11,000 miles over about a year. Pretty fun journal to read.

Safety Vest for Biking Flashlight Reviews and LED Modifications. OK, the ultimate in nerd factor. This site just reviews flashlights and other things with lights. I got to this because Steve Hooper recommend a Ledtronics safety vest and a quick google search got me hear to order something that is really bright. Electroluminescent vs. LED.…

Road Bike Clincher Tire Review by Greg Pelican This was closest Google hit to a search for road bike tire reviews. Pretty good summary I think. Note that Bethel Cycle is not up, so this is copied from the Google cache Back in my photo science days a common adage was the cheapest way to…

Why 802.11 Networking is great. A note from Tom Hatsukami as he installed the wireless network I recommended: I finally had a chance to get our home wireless network up and running this weekend, and I’m in heaven! This is the best thing since the invention of the wheel–I can check my e-mail or look…

Interbike 2002 OK, this just happened in mid October. I have to get out there sometime I think. Here is a quick report from some pretty good sites… Speedgoat Report The next set of stuff is coming out. Got to remember not to buy until it is fully stocked. Here is a good report from…

Bike Advice I’ve been learning how to maintain bikes for about a year now. Here’s a quick list of the sites and books I’ve used. Good luck yourself! Branford Bikes. This is the more detailed reference I use that has some of the really valuable tips, not to mention hard to find spare and parts.…

Web Hosting CyberPixels WebHosting – Hosting Plans. Recommended by paradoxx. Wow, the prices are great. I just signed up for this and we’ll see how it goes. I’m going to move Geek Fishing as an experiment. Most interesting will be to test out some of the applications they install for you. Here’s a quick list…

paradoxx.net >> it’s nothing, it’s so normal. This is a great example of what’s happening with Blogging. What an amazing site from someone who is 16 years old!

Home Networking I’m involved with Google results for Home Networking resulted in these hits. I’ll be a regular on these, so as of today, here are the top 10 hits with some notes by me. Home Net Help. I would not have guessed this would be the number one hit. PracticallyNetworked.com. A good site for…

Welcome to Bikesport!. They actually do some nice reviews on this site. I liked the one about the Felt DA650. I don’t need a triathlon bike, but who knows. I also updated my Bike Manuals page with pointers to all the components I use and the torques for bolts. This is easier than the google…

Smash’s World. Wow, a pretty cool site. MOst importantly, it has his own Kazaa participation Hack and also a kazaa lite 2.0 patch.

Bikes and HTML coding Just created a page for bikes that I Bikes and other referrals. Amazing what is on the web. There is actually a Vintage Trek Bike site with old brochures from 20 years ago. On the way to doing that I also learned how to make popup windows. Didn’t realize they required…

Web hosters UnlimBand : Against Unlimited Bandwidth. I’m investigating getting a web host that runs PHP and Mysql as well as Perl which Via Networks does not, although it does have FrontPage extensions. Here’s a site that is part of my search of where not to go. Interesting there is a site on this. Hosting…

What About PERL?. Talks about a common bug with running Perl installations. I wonder if this is John Ludwig’s problem. Something about double quotes.

How to install Perl on IIS 4 or 5 Installing PERL on IIS 4 or 5 is fairly straightforward and a good thing too. Here are notes from a great site called

Bike Routes Here are some rides that I’m going to take over the winter and fall. Kingston Ferry rides. Didn’t get a chance to do the Kitsap Color Classic since connie hurt herself. Looks like a great ride from the Kingston Ferry Bainbridge Ferry rides. This is the route of the Chilly Hilly which is…

Bicycle Maps in Washington State. In looking for more places to ride, I found this site with a great list of trails and bike route maps around Seattle.

Short Ignition Descriptors. I’ve been doing a bunch of introduction mail lately. Here are I think the best introductions for later use of what I do over there…just putting here to clip in for later Two line email introduction Rich Tong is a partner at Ignition, an early-stage fund based in Seattle (Rich was Vice…

Who Will Buy O2?. Some commentary from the UK about O2… O2 is a very-badly run company. The decision making is confused and power so diluted that there is no strategy or direction. The company, like BT, is so self-absorbed that people there don’t think of their rivals in business as being their opposite number…

Google News. It is amazing how far you can push free text search information. This is beta of Google’s real time search of news is pretty amazing. Those folks over there continue to amaze me. Makes you think about how much more there is left to do in search and indexing and how lightweight systems…

AddPro – Submission. My poor sad sack friend, Adrian has a great web site, but it isn’t even indexed on Google. Found a free submitter that puts him into at least 20 search engine and probably spams his name everywhere. At least maybe he’ll get indexed by the link from this entry 🙂

Mavic Technical Manuals. It is very hard to find the Mavic technical manuals online for bike parts because it is for dealers only and is password protected. Turns out however that the various PDFs are still crawled by google, so you can get to them with a search. Here is the one on the Ksyrium…

Sheldon Brown Bike Advice, Lickton’s. I find Sheldon and Branford to be the two best sources on the Internet. There was recently a story about Sheldon in Bike magazine and it is true he knows an amazing amount. Very responsive on mail too. I highly recommend any of these small local shops. You can pretty…

Naptheon build wireless application for Newport News. One of my buddies, Ty Carlson over at Microsoft dropped me a note about this. Pretty interesting vertical application and use of wireless

USATODAY.com – Cell phone users flip for AOL instant messaging. Wow, 500K users added per month doing IM on cell phones. Pretty amazing. An interesting trend that shows how powerful IM, SMS and email can be.

Select Audio Reports, Iraq Hearings: NPR Special Coverage. OK, I’m a news geek and back in 1991, you had to listen to a radio. Now you can hear it all online. INteresting to here the different POVs

Search Engine Submission Tips. My poor friend

VentureWire Index. The chart shows the 90-day trailing average of the amount invested in venture-capital deals each day for the 90 days preceding today. The daily numerical index () is an index of the amount of private equity invested yesterday, with the percent change being the difference between today’s 90-day trailing index, and the 90-day…