Saturday, September 29, 2007

Fall Riding

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Today, I had a hankering for a decently long ride. I went up Page Mill Road in the morning from Moody Road, and the weather was very nice. N...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Review: The Looming Tower (Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11)

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This book won the Pulitzer prize award last year, and covers the origins and creation of Al-Qaeda, the fumbling of the ball by America's...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Practical Bikes

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10 years ago, when Rivendell Bicycles was new, they stood for practical bikes. Bikes that could take wide tires, fenders, racks, but wouldn...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

Retirement calculators

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I had another e-mail conversation with William Bernstein again about one of my favorite topics, the safe withdrawal rates. I've already...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Conversation with William Bernstein

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Thanks to Karl , a bunch of us got to meet William Bernstein today, and the conversation was far more interesting than I expected. Here'...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Review: Mint.com

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I was one of Mint.com 's private beta users, so I'll give it a quick review now that the press embargo is over. The traditional appr...
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Review: The Blind Side

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I will confess to not being a big fan of American Football; I am fond of quoting George Will: Football combines the two worst things about A...
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Joel figures out how to beat Google

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I try not to comment much about technology trends, especially since I am so often wrong. But when I read Joel's article, I couldn't ...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

Review: The Dynamic Path

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Disclosure: The copy of The Dynamic Path I read was a review copy provided by the author's publicist. The Dynamic Path is properly cat...
Friday, September 14, 2007

Too little, too late (Republicans are Evil, Part VII)

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(The above link is only good for the next 7 days) Alan Greenspan's memoir apparently criticizes Bush and his administration: Mr. Greensp...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

Building a Custom Bike Part II

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Changes from last time : 3rd water bottle cage (mounted on the wheel side of the down tube). I asked Carl to draw in a 28mm tire just to ma...

Follow up: More Dinotte Nastiness

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In April, I wrote a review of the Dinotte Tail-light , pointing out the weaknesses of the product, mostly the mounting options, which works ...
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Saturday, September 08, 2007

Review: Making Comics

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Making Comics is perhaps the logical sequel to Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics , a really great book deconstructing comic books, h...

Engrish

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Lisa & I spent at least 20 minutes laughing at the pictures on the above site. This is really great stuff. One of my favorites:

Review: The Fall of Kings

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Kushner & Sherman wrote this book before the recent Privilege of the Sword , but the book takes place a good forty years after that book...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

Queuechup is unethical

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Spamming my address book? Not cool. Even though I took precautionary steps (e.g., using my spam trap address), it still spammed my address b...
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Monday, September 03, 2007

Review: The Bottom Billion

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Karl Pfleger raved about this book, and he's a pretty smart guy, so I ordered it from my library and read it. This book is essentially ...
Sunday, September 02, 2007

First sail of the year

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Sailing on the Bay So it begins. My next trip will be a sailing cruise in the Virgin Islands! We're flying there to first get our SCUBA ...
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Friday, August 31, 2007

Meng gets famous!

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Meng's a great guy, and he's from Singapore too. But the most annoying thing about working in the same company as him is getting mis...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Movie Review

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ust saw King of Kong a week ago, and thought it was a great documentary. For those who don't know what the documentary is about, here...