Entries from April 2008

First Real Ride on the New Trek Madone 6.9

April 29th, 2008 6 Comments

I wasn’t going to go for a long ride so I didn’t eat lunch and only put a couple of granola bars in my pockets. Then I called Joel and said let’s go for a ride. He was good with the idea so we headed towards Black Smith Fork Canyon. This is [...]

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Yeast (PETY)

April 27th, 2008 3 Comments

The next time you take a bite out of that yummy loaf of bread consider where it came from. Sure, cutting down all that nasty wheat is harmless enough. After all it’s just a stupid plant. It doesn’t have feelings. However, consider the condition of yeast.
Here is how yeast [...]

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Winter Was Hard on us Both

April 26th, 2008 No Comments

I have had colds off and on over the past few months which gave me a great excuse to ignore my bike trainer and be lazy. I had no idea just how bad it had gotten. While sitting in my office chair writing code this morning I hear a loud CRACK… and fall [...]

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First ride on the new Madone

April 26th, 2008 3 Comments

I brought my bike home from the shop and in spite of the fact that everyone was eating dinner by the time I got home I gave in and went for a ride. You can’t just bring it home and let it sit. Here’s the pictures.

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A Few More Thoughts On Morph Exchange

April 26th, 2008 3 Comments

I am working on a quick Facebook application for a company called Flat World Knowledge. Basically I have 4 days to build the application - it has to be done by Tuesday. Because of the simplicity of deployment on Morph Exchange I decided to deploy the application on their platform. I don’t [...]

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Visited My New Madone This Morning

April 24th, 2008 1 Comment

I am sure the bike shop is sick of me, but I don’t care. I visit a lot. The new Madone showed up at the shop this morning so I paid it a visit. Here are the pictures:

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Weather in Logan Not Conducive to New Bike

April 24th, 2008 No Comments

My new bike shows up today so what happens?
This is Logan, Utah so it snows of course.

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More on my new Madone 6.9

April 23rd, 2008 No Comments

Sure I am a bit obsessed, but I have been tracking my bike’s movements from the Trek factory to the local shop. At 6:07pm it hit Salt Lake City. It should be here tomorrow. Maybe I should take the day off.
In the mean time I have been satiating my bike lust with [...]

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China Doesn’t Like Wordpress.com

April 22nd, 2008 1 Comment

I was just following Windley on Twitter. He is in China and was unable to view Scoble’s blog. Scoble’s response - China blocks all of Wordpress.com. Ouch.

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PicLens on ThePlanCollection.com

April 19th, 2008 2 Comments

David Wiley pointed me to PicLens a few days ago. It is fun way to view online images. Immediately I saw the potential use for viewing house plans. We already have data feeds in RSS and Atom setup all over the site so I figured it wouldn’t be hard to integrate the [...]

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