Saturday, April 14, 2007

Review: Campagnolo Carbon Record Brake Levers

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These brake levers came on my Meridian Cascade tandem in 2002. At that time, they were an unspecified upgrade on the bike (I'd specified...
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Review: The No Asshole Rule

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When Robert Sutton came to Google to talk about his book, I thought that most of his points were fairly obvious: assholes are people who bea...

Charity Rides aren't necessarily good for cycling

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I recently rode Big Sur , along the beautiful section of coast left out by the AIDS Lifecycle ride. At first, I thought the AIDS Lifecycle ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Review: Dinotte Taillight

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Dinotte setup a deal for employees of my company, so I took the opportunity to buy one of their tail-lights, since my next-to-last Vista-lit...
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Monday, April 09, 2007

Review: The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual

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For those so young they missed the internet bubble, Henry Blodget was the internet analyst who achieved instant fame in 1998 when he predic...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007

Big Sur Trip

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Big Sur Trip I was getting stale, doing the same old pigeon point loop every time I wanted a shakedown cruise. Well, this year, I opted for...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Co-Motion provides new details

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After yesterday's post, I got a public statement out of Co-Motion: This date range is not correct. Piaw Na's frame, which he purcha...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007

How not to manage product defects

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5 years ago, I owned a Co-Motion SkyCapp . It was my first tandem, and amongst other things it taught me what I liked or did not like about ...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Marathon Pictures!

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Finally I got my pictures from the folks who took them...it wasn't cheap, about 50 bucks, but I figured its worth it since I don't k...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Review: Shen Wei Dance Arts

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Last night, I saw one of the most impressive dance performances in my relatively short dance experience. The Shen Wei Dance Arts was up at ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

An explanation of the mortgage alphabet soup

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Calculated Risk is one of the best bloggers around on the housing bubble and its effect on the economy. His posts are incisive, and he also...
Friday, March 09, 2007

The high prices of plane tickets...

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This year seems to be exceedingly expensive for plane travel. 3 years ago when I bought plane tickets for Zurich, I found tickets for $650 e...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Review: Rising Stars

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This is a review of J. M. Straczynski's series, Rising Stars. It's published in 3 parts: Rising Stars , Power (Rising Stars, Book ...
Sunday, March 04, 2007

26.2 in 4:30

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So this past sunday was the culmination of about 6 months worth of training. From the time I returned to the Bay Area in July and decided t...

gtags 1.0 released

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And there's even the official blog post written by me. Most of the work, however, was done by my intern, Stephen Chen, so thanks, Stephe...
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Monday, February 26, 2007

The 1.5% Real Return Estimate

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Last night I had dinner with folks that included a couple who worked in the financial industry. As might be expected, the dinner conversatio...
Friday, February 23, 2007

Phil teaches Emacs

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One of my former gtags interns, Phil, went back to school at MIT and taught a class about Emacs. His slides were great (much better than th...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Beautiful Aptos Beach

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Turbo Tax 2007 Review

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This is a review of TurboTax for the Mac versus TurboTax for Windows. I've been a Turbo Tax for Windows user for years. This year, as an...
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Saturday, February 10, 2007

No, I did not cheat...

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Your results: You are Dr. Doom Dr. Doom 68% Magneto 60% Lex Luthor 52% Green Goblin 52% The Joker 52% Apocalypse 49% Two-Face 48% Rid...
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