I was interviewed along with several other bicycle commuters at HP in Roseville. We rode around for a bit having our pictures taken. It doesn’t look like my picture made the story, but I was quoted. Now that everyone knows I was riding three days a week I need to get back on my schedule.
Heres a link to the article in the Roseville Press Tribune.
I just read that there is a company planning a grand tour of America. Much like the Tour de France, Giro D’Italia, and the Vuelta d’Espagne. This race would go coast to coast for ~4,000 miles over 30 days. Why not, the United States has some of the most majestic, and challenging terrain in the world. In addition to the usual jerseys they are introducing two additional competitions, and a really large prize purse. Here’s hoping it takes off, and America can join the rest of the world in celebrating our fantastic sport.
Here is the link to the temporary official site, http://waninggibbous.com.
I did it. I uploaded my new site design, and made it live. Now I need to create the blog template using this same style.
I was away this weekend at our close friends’ wedding. The people who were there were amazing, I can’t imagine a more wonderful group of people all coming together to celebrate the joining of Jason and Jaime. It was an amazing weekend, and I have the pictures to prove it.
Congratulations to you both!!!
On two occasions my non-drive side crank arm has started coming loose. The Truvative I disassembled the crank from the bottom bracket spindle and cleaned the grease off the spindle and put it all back together. The second time it came loose it used degreaser, and blew all the grease out of the crank bolt assembly, scrubbed the spindle, and removed the bearing seal to wipe it down and remove the grease from the surfaces of the seal and the outside of the cartridge bearing. Let’s see if this holds up.
Doing a search on the SRAM/Truvative site I found this manual (PDF) which states that the splines, and threads need to be greased. Well, I guess I need to call their warranty group to see what they have to say.
UPDATE:
After striping the grease off the crank bolt, spindle, and bearing seal, the crank did not come loose. In light of the SRAM tech specs though I decided to try another solution…
Upon further research several sites have posted threads discussing Truvative cranks coming loose. It appears that the solution to the problem lies in greasing the head of the bolt, the splines, the floating seal, and using loctite on the threads on the bolt. I only had blue loctite and will try this first. Many posts seemed to indicate that the heavier-duty green loctite was the solution. Time will tell.
Fantastic! I finally found something to help with the clanking of the cables on my carbon frame. The housing along the head tube makes a rattly-clanky noise when I roll over bumps. These little split tubes slip over the housing and deaden the noise from the frame-housing interaction. Check them out.
I’ve recently been victim to a number of software roll outs that were being managed by other people. Each of these experiences brought a single question to mind…What are they thinking? Either they stopped teaching best practices at the university, or I have had the distinct pleasure of witnessing projects that followed some unique system of development designed to screw everything up. In either case these recent experiences have compelled me to elaborate on what I feel are the cardinal rules for software/web development practices. (more…)
Companies need to check to see if there’s already a solution before solving problems. The new wheel is Tabblo, a slick web based technology for internet users to print blogs, images on flickr, and other web sites. Whoo-hoo now I can print web pages… Hmmm I don’t remember not being able to print web pages before. Well here’s the story. (more…)
It’s official Vista is was rushed to market. It’s been reported that playing an MP3 file will throttle network traffic to roughly 10% capacity. The reports vary in which network types are affected but there is no doubt that Microsoft officially throttled network capacity because they noticed that there was some distortion without the throttling. This has been confirmed through further analysis. Microsoft is working on a solutution at present. (more…)
It was recently reported that Microsoft was discovered to have payed off companies to join the standards organization deciding OOXML. On the surface this is shady, but there are longer term consequences as well. (more…)