Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Review: Inside Intuit

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I know it's hard to believe, but before the era of widespread internet use (which I peg at around 1995 or so, though 1993 first saw wide...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Cycle Touring and the Spriit of Adventure

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Over and over again, whenever I tour by bicycle, I run into people who tell me, "You're supposed to have a SAG wagon follow you so ...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Review: Creative DECT Skype Phone

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In anticipation of our move to Munich, we are switching over to Skype as our land-line provider. Buying Skype service for a year (including...
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Review: Fatal Revenant

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Warning: Spoilers Below The Runes of the Earth ended with Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery's adapted son, Jeremiah coming back from the...

Review: SKS Race Blades

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I've always used full fenders, because my bike had plenty of tire clearance. But the Ti bike, because of a geometry that was designed t...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

My first carbon failure

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I've heard of a lot of carbon fork failures, mostly because the people to whom it happens end up in a hospital, so when my Fuji approach...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Review: Declare

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I reported that I was disappointed with Tim Power's latest book, Three Days to Never , but when Charlie Stross recommended Declare at ...
Saturday, February 09, 2008

First impressions: Strong Frame

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Today was the first long ride on the custom bike , so I can write an extensive first impressions review. During the week, I had the bike co...
Thursday, February 07, 2008

Lumotec Light Problems and Diagnosis

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I've been using the Lumotec N and Lumotec Schmidt Switch headlights for the last 3 years, but have had really poor reliability with th...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Review: Halting State

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I seem to have become a bit of a Charlie Stross junkie lately, but I think I've finally caught up to his latest output. Halting State ...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008

The Ti bike is ready

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It was a massive ordeal, but I finally have a bike I can ride without worrying about broken this and that. I actually received the frame 2 ...
Saturday, February 02, 2008

Review: The Runes of the Earth

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I first read The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant way back in high school, right after The Lord of the Rings . The two trilogies are of cours...
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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