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Archive for October, 2006

Another Short ride in Cary, NC

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

I meant to go out for a longer ride yesterday, but had to cut it short b/c I did not prepare for the cooler weather yesterday by dressing warmer. For some reason, I always forget that it is cooler on a bike doing 20 mph than it is when just walking around. I [...]

Active.com - Alcohol: The benefits and risks

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Active.com - Alcohol: The benefits and risks
Interesting article on alchohol and the athlete at Active.com. The thing that is lost in the debate to me is that most, if not all, of the benefits of drinking wine can be gotten from drinking grape juice and you don’t have the side effects. Drink wine [...]

Googleplex goes solar

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Boing Boing: Googleplex goes solar
A step in the right direction for the computing industry concerning our dirty little secret: We use up a lot of energy with all of these distributed data centers. Now if they just made their data centers solar we would really be talking something significant.

Tri Bike Fit

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Tri Bike Fit
In-depth article on Slow Twitch about bike fitting. If you haven’t gotten a bike fitting, I highly recommend it. It can make a big difference in your performance.

Enterprise Java Community: The Mac as a Java Development and Execution Platform

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Enterprise Java Community: The Mac as a Java Development and Execution Platform
Is Walmart.com running on Apple? Or at least being developed on Apple? Interesting article on performance on Macs for development by someone at Walmart.com. Perhaps the most interesting statement is the first one, where the author states that most of his [...]

Swimming Blogs « /gēk/

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Swimming Blogs « /gēk/
For those interested, gēk has started up a collection of swimming only blogs, i.e. not swimming as part of triathlon. Just as triathletes can learn a lot by riding with cyclists in a peloton, so we can learn from those who are serious about swimming and swimming only.