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  • Carmichael commentaries are great

    “Chris Carmichael”:http://www.olntv.com/tdf03/carmichael.html has some of the best commentaries about what is going on with Lance I’ve seen. Here are few key ones before the Time Trial tommorrow. Good luck Lance!: * Lance needs a kick. Basically says that at Luiz Ardiden, Lance was cool, but not on fire, the fall gave him a kick in…

  • Latest Trek and Dura-Ace News

    For all you equipment geeks, here’s the latest from www.cyclingnews.com: * US Postal has been campaigning new forks from the Trek/Bontrager line-up at the Tour, as well as the new Madone 5.9 frame. According to Trek teams liaison guy Scott Daubert, the Bontrager XXX fork is lighter than the previous 5900 fork by dint of…

  • GIF to EPS Conversion

    My buddy Robert wanted to convert a GIF to EPS. Thanks to Google, here’s how to do it: * GIFWorks! Free Online GIF eTools. A cool online utility that is a basic GIF editor. * “ACDSee”:http://acdsee.com. I have used this before, but it appears to be a general tool. Can’t seem to find a dedicated…

  • Sony DRU-120A becomes a Ricoh DVD MP-5125A

    Sony firmware is not that great. Release 1.51 blows away your ability to read double density DVDs (e.g., DVD9’s). Also, with Sony firmware, you can’t use the bitset compatibility trick to make DVD written with it work with many players, so it is better to switch it to Ricoh firmware. Since the firmware update (Rflash…

  • Wifi hotspots…

    Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: WiFi hotspot business. The usual smart thoughts from Satoshi. Glad to know that he wouldn’t fund a wifi subscription service (since we haven’t :-). It is interesting to ask what folks will want with all these hotspots and will there be an opportunity to monetize them. Low…

  • Good pair of headphones

    Zagula spells trouble: Headphones. Zagula is on the headphone hunt as I was not too long ago. As usual, it depends on what you want and where you want to use them. Presuming, this is mainly for the airplane. There are the echo cancellers like the Bose which a big a bulky. Turns out you…

  • Kazaa, PeerGuardian and RIAA Blocking

    Emocium: Forum – 2 Kazaa Programs Try to Block RIAA. So, it has begun. Now folks are going to have a public list of RIAA IP addresses at something called Public Guardian and you can block addresses with some Kazaa derivatives. “Banned IP Addresses”:http://methlab.tech.nu/. So it goes. Shows that technical solutions are always out there.…

  • Ultimate Travel Bikes

    OK, after studying the market pretty carefully, here are the two bikes I would get for “have fun while traveling use”. I said two because one would be for speed and the other for rough road and touring: h4. Ultimate Road Racing Bike Ritchey BreakAway Bike. I still need to test ride one, but low…

  • At Last… Java Phone Benchmarks

    Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Java benchmark. Hattip to Satoshi for finding a benchmark site. Amazing to see how different performant is at “Jbenchmark”:http://jbenchmark.com. There is a 10x difference in performance. For instance the Motorola 720i is at 500 utils while the Sharp sh53 is at 1500 and the Nokia 7650 is…

  • Trek 560 Delight

    Welcome to Our Site!. Hey, my blog is the #1 hit for Trek 560, here’s someone else using an old bike the right way. _BTW, I just updated my template so that “Sitemeter”:http://sitemeter.com collects information on all my pages, not just the home page. Wow, hits are rising. I used to estimate 1,400 page views…