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Continue reading →: Biking Identification
MILITARY STYLE SPORTS ID. No, not for your bike silly, its id you might want to carry if you are riding and get hurt. How many of us travel with ID (actually, I keep a business card, credit card, $20 and proof of insurance in my backpack, but I’m a…
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Continue reading →: US Postal in 2004 becomes Discovery 2005
:: Discovery to sponsor Lance’s team. I’m sure the US Postal service was amazed that they got Lance to sponsor. Kind of too bad, they could never take advantage. The big boys are moving in though, next year, the Discovery Channel is sponsoring Lance. BTW if you are wondering if…
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Continue reading →: Dual Layer DVD Burners are here
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Lite-On, LG and BenQ Bring 8.5-GB Recordable DVDs to the Party – 16x: The Final Destination?. At last the DVD burner market is maturing. The DVD+RW and DVD+R format seems to be the winner. Both can go to 9GB on a single side and to…
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Continue reading →: External Hard Drive Reviews
X-bit labs – Articles – Three External Hard Disk Drives with 120GB Storage Capacity (page 8). Well these USB 2.0 drives will never be as fast as IDE drives, but it isn’t bad. The WD1200JB stuffed into an external enclosure for $200 vs. $80 if it comes as a internal…
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Continue reading →: Tour de France Diaries
How do these guys have time to do it. Here are a collection of daily rider diaries from folks actually on the TdF: * “Tyler Hamilton et al”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/diaries/. Velonews has Tyler Hamilton blogging away. * Floyd Landis. Of US Postal fame. * “Paolo Bettini”:http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/tour04/features/diaries/paolo.php?id=paolo0411. The Quck.Step-Davitamon rider. * “Chris Carmichael”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/carmicha/…
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Continue reading →: Bike Lust
After a few years of relative stability, the new bikes are pretty amazingly cool. Here are some highlights for lusting: * Giant get lighter with TCR Advanced. These are super popular frames from Taiwan. The new TCR Advanced has a new seat tube design that eliminates the need for seat…
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Continue reading →: Linksys Network Storage Link
Product Review. A very clever product from Linksys. This is basically a small computer that takes USB 2.0 drives, runs Linux on an Intel Network processor and comes out on TCP/IP as a SAMBA server. It’s an incredibly cheap way to build a Network Attached Storage system for a home.…
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Continue reading →: Guide to Moviemaking
Tom’s Hardware Guide Video: Making Digital Home Movies, Part 1 – Software. Finally a decent guide to all the software you need for video editing. I agree with them that Sony Vegas (formerly Sonicfoundry, I got mine as Video Explosion Deluxe), but it is all the same package is very…
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Continue reading →: Tour de France on the Web
OK, some amazing ways to catch the Tour de France other than on a TV: * Wireless Sign-Up 2004 Tour de France – 14:28:42 GMT. This gets you results texted to your cell phone * “Listen Live”:mms://adv.mirrorimage.net/event/mimg/evt20040702/audio. This link works if you have Media Player. It uses the mms: link…
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Continue reading →: Camera Bags
Been looking for a good camera bag that will fit a 35mm SLR and a long lense. Lowepro seems to have many good choices here including according to: * “Photo.net”:http://www.photo.net/equipment/bags/. As usual, the best reviews are here. Phil really likes the Tamrac bags though. Loves the huge Lowepro Trekker AW.…
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