Sunday, January 27, 2008

Review: The Atrocity Archives

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The Atrocity Archives was Charles Stross' first novel, and the book that Jennifer Morgue follows. When I read that it was Stross'...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Moving to Munich

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It's official: I'm moving to Munich for six months to a year on a work assignment. I don't talk about work on this blog, so I wo...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Review: Three Days to Never

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I'm beginning to see patterns in Tim Power's books. Take a few historical characters that are well known, involve them in some secre...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

Casual Programming in Windows

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The EEE PC makes a perfect nightstand computer, a more fully functional Chumby , if you will. Lisa wanted an alarm clock application. Here ...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

Macbook Air Analysis

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The non-Mac-fanboy analysis of the new Macbook Air is very interesting. Here are a couple of blog entries by others: A pictorial side-by-sid...
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Review: The Jennifer Morgue

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Charlie Stross has written The Jennifer Morgue as a new genre of fiction that I'll now call geek fiction . You might think, what abou...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Mossberg pans the EEE PC

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And of course, he misses the whole point of the machine, which is that it's cheap, it's super light, and the full size keyboard make...

Review: Sigma 2006MHR Bike Computer/Altimeter

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I wrote a short review of this bike computer last year right after our tour of the alps , but after a full battery cycle with the bike comp...
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Building a Custom Frame (Part IV)

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Frame building Carl sent along more pictures of his build. It looks like the frame is complete except for a few braze-ons.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Review: Picasa

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I love Picasa , as much as it is possible for me to love a computer program I didn't write. You might think that it's ingenuous for ...
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Monday, January 14, 2008

The Bicycle Wheel

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When I first proposed the Tour of the Alps in 2005 , my friend Mike Samuel was running 16 spoke wheels, which I thought was unacceptable fo...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Review: Garmin GPSmap 76CSx

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My brothers bought me a Garmin GPS for my birthday. This unit, the 76CSx is a marine GPS, meaning that if you drop it into water, it will ...
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Resources

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These are the books we used to plan our trip. The cruising guide is a classic, and comes with every boat you charter in the Virgin Islands. ...

Things I learned on this trip

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We rented 3 kayaks --- one tandem and 2 singles. One of the singles never got used. We discovered that the tandem kayak was a major pain to ...

Day 13: January 5th, 2008

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Rain hit the slightly opened hatch above my face, spraying mist on me and waking me up at 4:55am. I ran around closing all the opened hatche...

Day 12: January 4th, 2008

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Breakfast started with eggs and bread and then a rapid inventory of what was missing from our refrigerator. It turned out that we were overs...

Review: You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop

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I am a fan of John Scalzi , and this book has made me a bigger fan of him. It's a book about writing, but not a book about how to write!...
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Day 11: January 3rd, 2008

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The divers got up bright and early and had quick sandwiches and spread or oatmeal before heading over to Dive BVI's Seacat to join the ...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Day 10: January 2nd, 2008

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I woke up at 5:00am due to rain on the roof. After running around closing hatches with Hector (who was sleeping on the deck due to the heat)...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Day 9: New Year's Day, January 1st, 2008

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I woke up at 6:30 and heated up some water to make a breakfast out of oatmeal. I then lifted out the bilge to make sure we weren't sinki...