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Eurobike 2004
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Continue reading →: Eurobike 2004Eurobike 2003. More things to drool over in terms of biking hardware. Notable things: * Colnago C-50. The next generation from Ernesto. * Trek 5600 Superlight. The bike I own except that for 2004, they are shipping Lance’s improved model. Cuts nearly 151 grams over the 2003 ?model by tweaking…
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Rides around Seattle
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Continue reading →: Rides around SeattleSeattle has some really great road bike rides as well as close by mountain biking. Here’s a list of places that I go: * Ride around Lake Washington. This is the classic 60 or so mile ride around the lake. I’ve done a bunch. Main issue is that traffic particularly…
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AOL Blogs
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Continue reading →: AOL BlogsHat tip to Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog. AOL launches a blogging service. I’ve got to say that with Jon Miller taking over, they really are doing more software. Cranked out AOL 8.0 after a long hiatus. Then pumped out AOL 9.0 Optimized (don’t understand that branding myself) about six months later.…
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Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
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Continue reading →: Cognitive Style of PowerPointHat tip to Zagula on Tufte’s new book on bad PowerPoint presentations. IMHO, blaming PowerPoint for bad presentations is a little like blaming Word for your essay not being Shakespearean. Or Outlook for long turgid email. Or MovableType for a boring blog. The darn thing is a tool and you…
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MIT Classes online
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Continue reading →: MIT Classes online“MIT Open Courseware”:http://ocw.mit.edu. Hat tip to Ludwig. Hat tip again. What a cool idea. You can take any MIT class online. Sounds like Software Engineering 6.170 is a wonderful course. Also shows how global the knowledge worker business has become. The “Wired”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit.html piece talks about a Vietnamese student in Ho…
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Kazaa Hash Issues
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Continue reading →: Kazaa Hash IssuesUpdates on the P2P business: * “P2P Links”:http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.leonard1/webdir/index.htm. Tim Leonard did P2P guardian (a nice IP blocking program) and has some good links to track the P2P business. * “Zeropaid”:http://www.zeropaid.com/. A whole portal just for file sharing. * “Boycott RIAA”:http://www.boycott-riaa.com. Pretty humorous site that tracks the RIAA. * Zeropaid.com -…
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Tyler Hamilton's Inside Story
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Continue reading →: Tyler Hamilton's Inside StoryTyler tunes: Teamwork smooths out bumps in a tough Tour. The Tour de France is long over, but I thought this inside story on how it went for Tyler’s team (CSC) was pretty amazing. Shows how much suffering there is. Some samples: * When we decided I would try to…
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Ogg Vorbis and other formats
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Continue reading →: Ogg Vorbis and other formatsI’m experimenting with funky new encoders that are coming out all the time. For instance. XIPH:http://xiph.org seems to have an amazing collection of encoders: * A speech encoder called SPEEX * Vorbis for music. There is a nice 5MB encoder called OggDrop that includes the encoder. * FLAC is now…
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Monkey's Audio
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Continue reading →: Monkey's Audio“Modatic.net”:http://www.modatic.net/audio/ape.php. Another site says that Monkey’s Audio is the best performing, so I’ll try it. It is Windows only though.
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Trek 5900 Headset Problems
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Continue reading →: Trek 5900 Headset ProblemsReplacement headset for Trek 5900. Great set of posts about the headsets in the 5900 vs the 5500s. A good discussion about the custom headset used in the 5900 frame that saves a few ounces and allows an a strong aluminum steerer rather than a carbon fiber one that will…
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