Archive for July, 2008

The bike, she is finished. Well, mostly. I need to chop down the seatpost a bit so I can make it fit me properly. But other than that, yeah. It’s done. And I am very pleased by this. I will be following this post in the near future with a full review, as well as [...]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 10:47 | Comments Off
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I bought a 16-gig White iPhone 3G the Tuesday following their release, and while I was initially wowed by it, the glow has started to wear off, and I’m thinking I have something approaching a lemon. While I am impressed with the concept, the execution has left me cold, both from a hardware and software [...]

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 15:50 | Comments Off
Categories: Geek, Life

Testing my ability to photoblog via iPhone.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 | Comments Off
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Back in the day, after Dot-Com Bubble 1.0 burst and left me living in my parents’ basement, I went through a period of despair while looking for jobs and started to consider alternate lines of work. I would list things like “helicopter pilot (army)” and then list the pros and cons. As desperation set in, [...]

Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 12:34 | Comments Off
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To know me is to know that I have exceptional skills when it comes to profanity. I credit two organizations — my parents and the U.S. Army. When I was young, perhaps 9 or so, my father and stepmother informed me that profanity was okay by them. And I took to it like a hungry [...]

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 at 13:05 | 2 comments
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Seth Godin’s got a good piece on two easy-to-start web businesses. If I ever need to start freelancing on the side again, I’ll probably do one or the other. Need a good Tour de France fix? Cyclingnews should be your first stop. ABCNews, in its commitment to journalist excellence, provides us with the Animal Kingdom’s [...]

Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 08:26 | Comments Off
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