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On time departure statistics
BTS – Airline Information – Airline On-Time Statistics – Detailed Statistics – Results. We are thinking about going to Hawaii and I was curious about ontime departure. Man, those folks at the Bureau of Transportation really have their act together. What an incredible database. You can actually look at 5 years of data on on…
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Your First Road Bike: A Guide
I’ve got no less than three people asking me about bicycles to buy. Here’s quick list for Peter, Tim and Brad. First, here are the information sources to look at in order of importance: # “Road Bike Reviews”:http://roadbikereview.com. This is a site that doesn’t seem to have become polluted with biased reviews like C|Net. I…
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Whale-Ho!
Maui’s Best Whale Watching Cruises | Pacific Whale Foundation. Here’s a blow-by-blow of every whale trip last year by the Pacific Whale Foundation. useful if you are whale-geek or if you are trying to figure out if there are going to be many whales during spring break this year 🙂
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Maui whale watching
Maui Whale Watching counts. Connie just loves these creatures and is dying to show the kids. Here’s a note from 2002 on when the whales are holding court. They are around january to May.
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RSS Readers
According to “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com, he only reads using RSS instead of browsing web sites the old fashion way, so I’m off to find the best RSS reader. Not easy to find I should say. Lots of developments since the last time I looked. Here are the sources: * RSS Readers (RSS Info). The top google reference…
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Santa Cruz Blur Fit and Build Kit Analyzed
OK, if Brad thinks the Blur is great, let’s have a look and see what I need: h4. Blur Sizing I’m 5′ 10″ to 5′ 11″, so the recommendation is medium with a 120 stem. The effective top tube is 57.7 cm (I usually ride a 56.1 cm and 120 mm stem on my road…
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Mountain Bike Review
Been in brain lock about buying a mountain bike. My good buddy “Brad”:http://www.thesilverbergs.com finally gave me a push. Here are some of his words of wisdom below. There are quite a few Santa Cruz Blurs now on ebay as the early adopters are getting their next bikes. The powercoat lists for $1300 and the anodized…
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Cool Utilities
a little ludwig goes a long way: Scott Hanselman’s Utility List. Cool utilities per Ludwig. Ones I liked include: * “Xenu”:http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html. Link checker that is pretty cool and works really fast. Nice for checking my blog. * “Command Bar”:http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/CommandBar.asp. A cool utility that lets you run command line utilities in the windows explorer. * “NetPing”:http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/netping/.…
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Codec licensing
Been studying a little bit the codec market and how it the whole thing hangs together. There are clearly folks who are doing open source development that doesn’t involve licensing. The two that strike me right away are “Lame”:http://lame.org and “Vorbis”:http://vorbis.org. I’m wondering what the other ones are. Here are some links based on a…
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Beware! Time Monolink Stem Bolts can break
Time Sport USA. I’ve got a brand new Time Monolink stem. It is amazing. 125 grams made of carbon fiber. Unfortunately, while hammering up a hill, one of the titanium bolts snapped right at the head. Wow, I’m lucky I didn’t crash. In any case, the nice folks at Time Sports USA actually answered my…