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Wahoo! The ride home went great yesterday, I actually made it home just as fast as I would have in my car, plus I rode through one of the riverside parks for about a mile before actually getting on the highway. Very relaxing and exhilirating. This morning was a little scary, I left about 10 [ READ MORE ]
So, today is the first day of my experiment with commuter biking. So far, so good. I made it into work this morning with no problems really. It turns out that Eastern Ave is not a bad route from Columbia Tusculum to downtown. The right lane comes and goes, so drivers mainly stay in the [ READ MORE ]
One of my favorite authors, David Brin, just published a blog entry about Bush’s wars. I personally believe the village idiot we "elected" is ruining our country. The blog post is a well written criticism (not a rant) about Bush’s wars. Two of my favorite quotes are: The US isn’t the only country that responds to [ READ MORE ]
I migrated all of the sites on this server to apache last night and everything seems to be working properly and actually running faster than under IIS. I’m working on a long post about migrating from windows to ubuntu linux for both servers and development workstations. Stay tuned, should be finished in the next week [ READ MORE ]
Continuing in my series on web based productivity tools, I ran accross a new web based (written in flash) diagramming tool: http://Gliffy.com. Similar to visio or dia and includes online storage and collaboration. Exports as SVG, JPG, and PNG. It doesn’t support the visio file format though. [ READ MORE ]
Meg made a tremendous pulled pork this weekend, absolutely delicious. While shopping, I noticed a display of “Assorted Melons”. Who can resist a sign like that? I bought three of them and they were delicious. I’m not exactly sure what varieties we had, but here’s my best guess: 1) Seedless icebox [ READ MORE ]
Full map available here No, this isn’t a scene from some science fiction movie, this is actually a satelite photo of the worlds 7th tallest building. This building has over 100 floors and 3000 rooms but its only a concrete shell. No windows, fixtures or anything but the concrete was ever [ READ MORE ]
Ok, here are the receipes for the stuff I made this weekend. Credit for the Cheesy Potatoes goes to my mom and the green beans I made up, but do have to give Meg credit to introducing me to the shallots. Enjoy! Cheesy Potatoes:8-10 potatoes, washed1/2 loaf velveeta2/3 stick butter2-3 strips bacon1c cheddar, [ READ MORE ]
Apparently, the idea that lemmings throw themselves off cliffs in great hordes was completely made up by the disney company in the 50s. Who knew? Stupid disney. Lemming populations go through rapid growths and subsequent crashes that have achieved an almost legendary status, largely because of the Walt Disney Pictures film, White [ READ MORE ]
I use Wiki’s for all sorts of stuff at work. I think its a great platform for document creation and collaboration. So, my ears perk up whenever I here some buzz about new wiki software. I was reading Lifehacker a few weeks ago and they mentioned the GTD Tiddlywiki, a self [ READ MORE ]
