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Saturday, June 29, 2002
Back from another Bike Virginia, our 7th. It was a very hilly route this year, but we enjoy climbing and had fun passing some of the so-called hot shot riders on our loaded bikes. We also spent some time in Asheville, N.C., a very western North Carolina city that seems to be having some growing pains, like lots of traffic and occasional code red air pollution days. More later... (0) comments Thursday, June 20, 2002
Still frantically trying to get caught up after a long weekend in Vermont, real work, and the trip to Philadelphia. It was cold and rainy nearly the entire time I was in Vermont, but it was a good break from the hot South. The ride from Burlington to Wells River hauling a 50 lb. trailer was quite a challenge. The return trip wasn't any easier, but it was a great ride in mostly sunny, clear weather. I even got a few "cool bike" shouts from kids checking out Bike Friday with the suitcase trailer. (0) comments Wednesday, June 19, 2002
It's been a busy two weeks, with a trip to Philadelphia last week to watch the US Pro cycling championships, then up to Vermont for a few days of R&R, along with trying to get out a bi-yearly newsletter. Will report more later. (0) comments Thursday, June 06, 2002
Nevermind...I realized that I had turned off cookies in IE a day or so ago and had not turned them back on, which explains why I couldn't log in with IE. It still doesn't explain why Mozilla crashed when Publishing in Blogger. Should I expunge the previous messages and save myself the embarassment of documenting my stupidity? Nah (I even had to look up how to spell nah...). (0) comments
I suppose I should just resign myself to being controlled by this beast. At least it didn't crash after the Publish request. Now I'm starting to have sympathy for MS and IE users. (0) comments
Now Blogger won't let me publish using IE. I sense a battle of the browsers, and I'm losing. Is Mozilla some sort of cruel hoax? So... after several attempts to use IE to Publish, I signed out, and then I couldn't sign in using IE; several times; using the Forgot my password option to confirm my password. I fired up Mozilla, signed in, and am writing this. This is some kind of hoax perpetrated by MS haters. (0) comments
My experiment with Mozilla 1.0 may be short-lived. The first time I tried to Publish a Blogger entry it crashed. It's still sending the error report as I write this. Oh well, maybe 1.01 or 1.02 or even 1.1 will do the trick. I may just wait... (0) comments
Giving Mozilla 1.0 a try after not having much luck with an earlier, beta version. I'm usually too critical of beta software and don't have a lot of patience with obvious bugs. There are a few in Mozilla (like the strange dual frame that I'm working in right now on Blogger, with the right side of the frame being a useless blue rectangle, and the way the cursor is just a tad too close to the letters, so that a lower case l just about disappears under the blinking cursor). I don't care to trust my luck using virus-prone IE and Outlook Express for much longer, even with Postini filtering out most of the junk. (0) comments
A Daimler-Chrysler prototype was the first fuel cell car to drive cross country. It will be while before they are in production, but the alternative fuel vehicle is inevitable. And why isn't the Bush administration using the argument that we use more fuel efficient autos as a way to fight our dependence on foreign oil? Even Hollywood has discovered the hybrid car, the latest status symbol. Now this is what will probably have the most influence on reducing our consumption of SUVs and other fuel hogs; if it becomes cool to drive a small, cute little hybrid. Kind of like what riding a bike is now, at least to some of us. Speaking of reducing our dependence on foreign oil, why not support the fight to keep the oil companies out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by donating to Alaska Wilderness League (although their site appears to be having problems at the moment). (0) comments Monday, June 03, 2002
I've seen the future and it's small; the OQO pocket computer is truly a pocket computer, a full-fledged computer capable of running Windows XP or Linux, and can be held in the palm of ones hand. I've been trying to decide if I really want a Palm or PocketPC, both of which are a few steps up from an address book, or should I get a small laptop like the Sony Vaio. It seems obvious to me that what's needed is a real computer that doesn't cost too much and is very small, which is what the OQO device claims to be. It's being deveoped by the team that developed the Apple Titanium powerbook. I think I'll wait until the second half of this year for the introduction. (0) comments Sunday, June 02, 2002
Tyler Hamilton finished 2nd in the Giro; a great finish for him in the first major race as team leader. If he hadn't fallen hard 3 times, he might have won. Rode down to view the Clarendon Cup races this morning, culminating in the Men's Pro 100 Km race won by a Navigators racer. The Pros were racing at incredible speeds, and there were a few hard crashes but there were no major injuries. The Post has a review of two new PDA's, the Toshiba e310 which uses Microsoft's PocketPC 2002, and the Palm-powered Handspring Treo 90. Still trying to figure out when is the right time to buy one. I'll probably await Palm's OS 5.0 to decide. (0) comments |