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Continue reading →: Galileo to crash into Jupiter
NASA – Historic Galileo Mission Nears End. A spectacular thing. There will be a web cast as the Galileo enters atmosphere of Jupiter. Hat tip to Metafilter
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Continue reading →: Blog Tools Update
While looking at RSS Feed Readers, I also found that the blog clients have gotten much better. Here’s my quick review and update: * :: w.bloggar ::. This was the original blog client that I used. He’s been buys working on it and it now supports a whole bunch of…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…




