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Friday, February 4th, 2005
Two Weeks Late: Airbus vs. Dreamliner
As always, a TWL post is a rumination on some serious issue of the day, but long after anyone else still cares. In today’s post, the subject is the recent introduction of the Airbus A380, the famous double-decker of the skies, coming to an airport near you sometime in 2006 or later. Of course, the […]
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Friday, February 4th, 2005
Boring rehosting test
For uninteresting, used-up-my-quota reasons, I’m rehosting the website. The good news is you shouldn’t be able to tell, at least if you’ve got it bookmarked as wiredcola.com, which should continue to be an authoritative home for the site for some time (as in, I’ve paid for that domain through 2009, ensuring the security of the […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
MTB for sale
Just to let you know, I’ve decided to sell the under-used mountain bike to drive more funds into my ongoing road bike obsessions. It’s a ’97 18″ Kona Kilauea with a nice Marzocchi Z2 fork, recently overhauled with new oil and nice Enduro seals, so it’s better than new. I even have extra springs for […]
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
Preoccupied
Ahh! Apologies for a gross lack of content lately. For her part, The Lovely One has been roundly chastised, and will be back on schedule shortly. For my part, too much stuff, almost all of it blandly personal and not really informative in some external way. Enjoy a peek behind the curtain of my posts […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
Electronic Stability Control saves lives
As usual, I found some time to read Car and Driver at the newsstand this week, and the most interesting article of all was a column by Csaba Csere, one of their several smart, engineer-background editors. Kudos to them, by the way, for making the content available online. He was on about the genuinely shocking […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
Not-so-great Moments in Branding
Otis Spunkmeyer. Can you tell that’s a made-up, awful company name? Of course you can. Branding is a recurring theme in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition, which includes the theory that the Tommy Hilfiger brand, because of its incredibly derivative and obviously calculated style, is the most soulless brand ever (this is important, because the main […]
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
Short and Boring
Dave sent me this video, obviously from some years ago (since some years ago is how long ago mountain bike racers would be caught dead in these colours) of a very interesting way of handling rider infractions. No posts lately? I haven’t had a lot to say. The weather is shockingly good, and I’m loving […]
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
The Sublime and the Ridiculous – A continuing series
I’m late. I know. My sincerest apologies for making you wait. I have been indisposed and haven’t even wanted to venture out of doors. Outside scary. Yet, I have put my fingers to work in order to bring you this installment of “The Sublime and the Ridiculous.” Again, I’m going to cheat a bit and […]
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Friday, January 21st, 2005
Welcome New Reader!
And a quick hello to new reader Kelly, who will be shortly perusing this site. Yes, the readership is that small that I can greet them individually. It’s like a PBS pledge drive, but without the annoying beggary. That starts next week. Half-remembered quote of the day: “they go brain dead for a few months, […]
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Thursday, January 20th, 2005
A Japanese Culture Reader
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a few websites devoted, I guess, to teaching the rest of us about their fair land. Notably, behold Trends in Japan, an earnest but interesting look at stuff happening there. It’s not J-list, and that’s a point in its favour. On the home front, I have been blessed […]