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Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
Is this thing on?
I’m just testing a new trick with Blogger: e-mail blogging. Also, I seem to have a feed, now.
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
Ah, where did the weekend go? I didn’t do anything all weekend. Well, I went to Daiso, the Aberdeen Centre’s anchor tenant. $2 for anything in the store, but with a Japanese twist! What does that mean? Well, $2 metric speed wrenches for one thing, and a lot more cheap ashtrays than you would expect. […]
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Thursday, June 10th, 2004
IT4BC review continued Bryn Hughes of VCC presented on Radmind. Radmind good! Lab and regular computer change-management! Auto system restoration! Works on OS X with a GUI, or any UNIX system! Ryan like! Ryan want use! Arr-ar-arh! That is all for now,
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Thursday, June 10th, 2004
IT4BC summarized. Ross Chevalier, Novell (Keynote 1): -Executives understand three things: reduced cost, mitigated risk, increased profit -Cost control drives IT [but what about the Barry Leinbach idea of turning IT into a profit centre? -ed] [notes on his PowerPoint presentation: Ross primarily uses graphs, not bullet points. The information density of the graphs is […]
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2004
Weekend Update I spent the weekend in Victoria, staying with my aunt and doing a combination of tourism and bicycle racing. The results were mixed. I finished 8 minutes behind the pack in the Sooke Classic, but had so much fun on a glorious point-to-point (almost; we actually turned around at the halfway point) race […]
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Friday, June 4th, 2004
Gone Racing For the weekend. The Victoria Cycling Festival is on the agenda. Hopefully I’ll take some pictures. See ya soon.
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
I’m Working On It Yesterday was another Big Ride Day: ride from New Westminster to UBC, race for 30 minutes, ride to Main Street station, take the train home. It’s over two hours on the bike no matter how you slice it. As part of my winnings from my glorious 4th place in the hill […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2004
My First Time…Trial As you can see from the results, I did not cover myself in glory in my first TT. It was a short hillclimb TT up Gaglardi way, the main road leading to Simon Fraser University. 3.6 km, and it was the hardest 12 minutes of riding I have ever done. No joke, […]
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Friday, May 28th, 2004
I wish I had had a camera Inexplicably, I failed to mention it, but I’ve been having problems with the satellite dish reception all week. They have a menu in the reciever that you can access to see signal strength on an unspecified scale. 70-80 is a good clear-skies number; you can get reception with […]
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Monday, May 24th, 2004
A braking solution. I’m using the BMX LX to illustrate a little trick I invented for getting a few mm more reach on caliper brakes. As you can see above, I have added the spherical washer set from an old set of V-brakes to this ordinary road pad. Note the washer that touches the slot […]