Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Day 7: Goldswil to Grimsel Pass Summit

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  From Tour of the German Speaking Alps 2010 The morning greeted us with beautiful sunshine and calm wind. It was still cool, but that wa...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Day 6: Hotel Zwirgi to Goldswil

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  Our hopes were raised when we got up in the morning and saw the fog lifting, granting us beautiful views near Zwirgi: From Tour of the G...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Day 5: Meiringen to Hotel Zwirgi

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  The next morning saw us leaving the hotel bright and early to hop onto the train to Zurich. Unlike previous years where we managed to snag...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Days 3 and 4: Innsbruck, Bludenz

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We spent the next two days in Innsbruck. Cynthia had to do more bike gear shopping, and we had to figure out how to get over the pass withou...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Kreuth to Terfens

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  From Tour of the German Speaking Alps 2010 After an unusually hearty breakfast for such a reasonably priced B&B, we left at around ...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Day 1: Holzkirchen to Kreuth

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  In the morning, I bought some Weisswurst at a local butcher, and made it in the hotel room, since the rooms were equipped with a stove, po...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A bad start

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We flew into Munich to find my deraileur hanger bent and wheel out of true. That was the least of our problems. Cynthia lost her bag of cycl...
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Prologue

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In a sign that this was a tour where not everything would go smoothly, Roberto Peon sent e-mail the night before that he was going to aband...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Tandem is boxed

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Yes, that's two Amtrak bike boxes (cost: Free) stitched together, a bunch of packing tape, a leatherman, and some allen wrenches. My e...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Nothing Last Forever

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On the eve of our departure, the eyelet holding the rack to the dropout broke. Good thing we have 2 (yes, that was a deliberate design ...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

Review: Catching Fire

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Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy. As with the first book , it's a qui...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Review: Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet

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It's impossible to draw with a mouse. That's the first thing you learn whenever you try to do anything delicate in Photoshop. Any ci...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Retirement Report

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When I announced my retirement , at least one person thought it was a joke. The same response happened to me at work as well. One of my favo...
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

And we are live over at AngryBear...

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A couple of months ago, Scarlet suggested that I do a blog tour. My problem was that I had no idea how to go about doing that. I was, howeve...
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Monday, June 07, 2010

Review: Adobe InDesign One-On-One

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My name is still attached to some TeX macro packages on the internet. Yes, TeX , because LaTeX was too high level for me. Yet 21 years afte...

Rebecca Frankel on Boston Startups

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A few weeks ago, I shared something on Google Reader/Buzz about Boston Entrepreneurship . Fundamentally, during the mini-computer era, Route...
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The next book

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Many people have asked me what the next book will be. It should be no surprise to anyone that I've chosen to write about my other passi...
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Review: The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is Stieg Larsson's novel which is a part mystery, part thriller about what appears to have been a long o...
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Recognition

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Google had a very cool system for allowing employees to pat each other on the back. It was called a peer bonus, and basically netted out abo...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Review: The Aviator

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The Aviator is Martin Scorsese's movie about Howard Hughes. I didn't know much about Howard Hughes the man, but the movie at least...