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Finally time to get back to biking, so a quick refresh of gear: Cyclocomputers My cyclocomputer finally gave up the ghost. Loved the thing. A $130 computer from Campagnolo. Best thing was the integration with the buttons on the brake assembly. Really hands-on the stick sort of stuff, but the wires broke. I’ve tried lots…

It’s amazing how costs to dial overseas has collapsed. Here is latest guide tuned for a few sample countries. Calls to and from China, Australia and Vietnam… Calls out.. Vietnam. Right now the rates are 1. Nobelcom. The most inconvenient as it is a traditional dial around service. You register your cell phone then dial…

Been taking lots of photos. Both in Sydney and recently at Skagit, so here’s an update of cool digital tools to use: Photomatix. Try image fusion which isn’t HDR, but uses multiple exposures. More natural. Need to check to see if Photomatix is still the best HDR utility. Here are some notes from Kevin McNeal.…

Eve rocks and rolls as a journalist on Voracious. 

Can’t believe how hard this is. If you do this to get on make sure you move fast. If you don’t the login times out (if say you are studying the pass types) and then you end up in limbo and have to call them. What a strange system. So make sure to type fast.…

Spent way too much time surfing Wikipedia laterly. Iti is an amazing source. But some facts on earthquakes and then nuclear disasters. Well, the Japan earthquake was big, but there have been bigger, remember every increase from say 8 to 9 is thirty times stronger. If you go from 8 to 10, it is 1000…

I’ve been scanning in things like crazy with vuescan and now its time to organize. I do the dumb thing and just put things in folders organized by year, then month then date. So that way I can never lose the information as I do with iPhoto all the time because it forgets where things…

OMG, the earthquake, tsunami and now nuclear crisis have me gripped. Amazingly, I get most of my news from http://google.com/news and from youtube.com videos. The world is changing. But out of all that, my heart goes out to the workers at the Daiichi plant… As an aside, these are the live reporting sites I’ve found…

Well the latest release has a super important feature. Get rid of your $30 a month contract for iPad data access over 3G and use Internet tethering for $20/month and you can use it with your computer too.