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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

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.

Which would you rather use?

So I got a Garmin Edge 705 in anticipation of either the Quarq CinQo crank-based power meter or the upcoming SRM wireless versions. They both

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

Merry Christmas

Specialized has a unique Christmas greeting with The Nutcracker Suite performed entirely on instruments of bicycle parts! Check it out at Specialized Holiday Greetings.

Updated Training Diary w/PMC

After my recent failed attempts at VO2 intervals, I decided to take today completely off. Instead, I spent most of the day making improvements to

Wattage List Migration

No, not that kind of wattage, I’m referring to all the work I’ve been doing on the recently transitioned Wattage list. The Wattage list is

Lazy Programmers

Even though I am on my work sabbatical, I still find it hard for the user experience guy in me to ignore bad design. I’ve

eBay Spoof Got Me!

Eagle, ID — Being on the Internet since 1993, I thought I was savvy enough that this would never happen to me. Well, today I was

Computer Build

Eagle, ID — Now that I have more time on my hands (with no work and all) I decided that I’d build my next computer. I

iMac for the Folks

My parents finally got tired of hearing all this great stuff about email and the “Internet” so they finally decided to buy a computer. As