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Continue reading →: Tour de France Diaries
How do these guys have time to do it. Here are a collection of daily rider diaries from folks actually on the TdF: * “Tyler Hamilton et al”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/diaries/. Velonews has Tyler Hamilton blogging away. * Floyd Landis. Of US Postal fame. * “Paolo Bettini”:http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/tour04/features/diaries/paolo.php?id=paolo0411. The Quck.Step-Davitamon rider. * “Chris Carmichael”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/carmicha/…
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Continue reading →: Bike Lust
After a few years of relative stability, the new bikes are pretty amazingly cool. Here are some highlights for lusting: * Giant get lighter with TCR Advanced. These are super popular frames from Taiwan. The new TCR Advanced has a new seat tube design that eliminates the need for seat…
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Continue reading →: Linksys Network Storage Link
Product Review. A very clever product from Linksys. This is basically a small computer that takes USB 2.0 drives, runs Linux on an Intel Network processor and comes out on TCP/IP as a SAMBA server. It’s an incredibly cheap way to build a Network Attached Storage system for a home.…
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Continue reading →: Guide to Moviemaking
Tom’s Hardware Guide Video: Making Digital Home Movies, Part 1 – Software. Finally a decent guide to all the software you need for video editing. I agree with them that Sony Vegas (formerly Sonicfoundry, I got mine as Video Explosion Deluxe), but it is all the same package is very…
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Continue reading →: Tour de France on the Web
OK, some amazing ways to catch the Tour de France other than on a TV: * Wireless Sign-Up 2004 Tour de France – 14:28:42 GMT. This gets you results texted to your cell phone * “Listen Live”:mms://adv.mirrorimage.net/event/mimg/evt20040702/audio. This link works if you have Media Player. It uses the mms: link…
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Continue reading →: Camera Bags
Been looking for a good camera bag that will fit a 35mm SLR and a long lense. Lowepro seems to have many good choices here including according to: * “Photo.net”:http://www.photo.net/equipment/bags/. As usual, the best reviews are here. Phil really likes the Tamrac bags though. Loves the huge Lowepro Trekker AW.…
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Continue reading →: PC Buying Guide
These Anandtech buying guides are just awesome. Rather than writing my own, I’ll just do the difference in opinion I have compared with their analysis: h2. High end See AnandTech: Buyer’s Guide: High End System – July 2004 for base recommendations. Here are the deltas to get a machine cost…
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Continue reading →: No RAID-0 needed for desktops
AnandTech: Western Digital’s Raptors in RAID-0: Are two drives better than one?. I was going to get a pair of 74GB 10Krpm drives in a RAID-0 to just get screaming desktop performance. Indeed, it does look like that RAID-0 double actual disk throughput, but because a single drive also has…
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Continue reading →: Laptop Lust
Sony VAIO VGN-X505VP Review. So it costs $3,700. This is the utlimate machine. Thinner than a quarter, it has DVD, 1.1GHz Pentium M, 512MB Ram.
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Continue reading →: Great Photo Processing
Film Processing, Photographic Lab, Printing – A&I Photographic Lab. Just a note, after a year of use, we really love A&I’s photo processing. With a year or so to go until I go digital, this has been a nice compromise. Get a wonderful 35mm camera (Nikon N80) and some great…
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