Wednesday, June 27, 2007

In Chur

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We explored the Melchtal route that Jobst wrote about, as well as Grosse Scheidegg and the Lauterbrunnen valley. Its been very pretty, but i...
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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Many lessons learned...

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First of all, don't depend on Swiss Air to be on the ball about getting you lost luggage back to you. They told us we'd get it deliv...
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Morning Update

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My brother arrived with Good News. He saw our bikes and their boxes at the airport. But they wouldn't let him sign out the bikes, so we ...
Friday, June 22, 2007

A bad start...

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We started off with US Airways refusing to supply us with bike boxes. So I ran over to the United Airlines counter and bought 3 boxes. Cost ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Guinness Storehouse Review

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So I'm in Ireland for a couple of weeks, for work mostly. In between the bouts of bad weather and other whatnots, I've been doing a...
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Monday, May 28, 2007

Review: Banjo Brothers Handlebar Bag

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Someone on the Rivendell mailing list recommended the Banjo Brothers handlebar bag to me. I found it at Calhoun Cycles for $20, and decided ...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Review: 1001 Nights of Snowfall and Other Fables

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After my last review of Bill Willingham's Fables , I found as many back issues as I could and read all of them, including the hardback, ...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

Review: Raising The Bar

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Most business books sound too self-congratulatory, especially if written (well, really, ghost-written) by a company founder. But Clif bar ha...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Review: The Ghost Brigades

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I reviewed John Scalzi 's latest novel, The Last Colony a while back and found it intriguing enough to place holds on his other books a...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Review: Fables In Exile, Vol 1-3

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It is rare that there are new ideas in fantasy series, but there it is, Fables In Exile, a series that deals with fairy tales. Everybody kno...
Monday, May 07, 2007

Review: The Last Colony

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I was impressed by how much I liked this book. I started reading on chapter one, and the book just sucked me in and I had to keep going unti...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Review: Plan B 2.0

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Apparently, Lester R. Brown is a big shot in the environmental movement, but when he came to Google for a talk I didn't know any better,...
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 ...