Ramblings

Time for a New Receiver?

After 20 years of faithful duty, my Carver AVR100 receiver may have finally bit the bullet. I’m surprised it lasted this long as it survived

Excel-Based Training Diary

This Excel-based training diary has evolved over many years and most of the charts you see in my blog are just screenshots from it. You

Cute Comic

I thought this comic titled “Duty Calls” was pretty funny. It, along with many others, can be found on xkcd.com.

Personal Blogs are Dead?

Looks like personal blogging is dead according to a recent Wired Magazine article titled: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 Good. Now I

Booth-Duty at TechEd Developer

I just got back from a week in Orlando, Florida for the Microsoft TechEd Developer conference. It was a somewhat of a short notice trip.

TopoFusion Power

I’m not the only one who thinks power and GPS data would make a great combo. Scott Morris, one of the creators of TopoFusion, thinks

Qwest Finally Comes Through

Ever since we upgraded to Qwest’s 4.5 Megabit DSL service, we never got consistent speed from it. During peak Internet usage times, I would “test

Pyro Sand Game

This is a simple, low graphics online game called Falling Sand. It is highly addictive in a hypnotic sort of way. Rather than try to

Tech-Support Cutting into Training

After a good workout on Monday, the rest of the work-week lacked any quality workouts. Instead I was in front of a computer most of

New York Times Reference Search

As a user experience professional, I appreciate good design and today I was pleasantly surprised by a new feature of the online version of The

Back to Work

I re-entered the software industry today after the Cycling Sabbatical I started in October of 2005. During the last two years I focused most of

Double Sickness

So much for not getting sea-sick. Today I woke up and felt like I had vertigo; slightly nauseous and dizzy. I was actually surprised that

Moon

The moon-rises have been spectacular lately and with Heather’s fascination with the moon she had to prod me to go grab my camera and takes

Trip to Reno

I was feeling really fatigued after the Twilight so I decided to take two weeks completely off the bike. The timing worked out well as