Monthly Archives: September 2007

Robot Chicken Liver

By | September 30, 2007

If you have a twisted sense of humor and haven’t yet watched the Emmy award winning (no joke) Robot Chicken, for your own sake please read the Wired article on Robot Chicken, watch a episode on Adult Swim, and then come back to thank me for hooking you up with the best show on TV… Read More »

Mount Diablo Challenge Training Ride

By | September 29, 2007

On October 7th I’ll be riding the Mount Diablo Challenge, a timed ride over 10.8 miles with 3,249 feet of elevation gain. The peak is at 3,849 feet above sea level. The ride can’t be handled as a normal bike race due to the number of riders (957 last year), so they time you using… Read More »

Win XP Virtual Machine with Fedora 7 and KVM

By | September 28, 2007

I’ve been completely Microsoft Windows free at home once again for quite a while since the death of yet another hard drive in a Dell computer with a pre-installed copy of Windows XP Home. This time it was a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop. There have been a couple of times over the last few months… Read More »

Book Review – Freakonomics

By | September 27, 2007

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner My copy of the book is the first edition, but I highly recommend getting the second edition. The authors added a lot of critical comments and corrections in the second edition. Or, if you already have the… Read More »

Frosty Credit Reports

By | September 23, 2007

If you’ve been subject to identity theft like me (twice so far), you should strongly consider having access to your credit report frozen. This will greatly decrease the chance of someone else establishing a new line of credit using your identity. Consumers Union has a great summary of the details for all the states that… Read More »

AVIOS Speech App Contest for Students

By | September 23, 2007

AVIOS is having their second speech app building contest for student teams. “Cash and/or equipment prizes valued at over $1000 will be awarded to teams of student programmers who design and create applications judged by industry experts to be the most robust, useful, creative, innovative, and user friendly.” The finished application must be submitted by… Read More »

Summer Book Reviews

By | September 21, 2007

I plowed through a bunch of books this summer and swore to myself with each one that I would post a book review. It’s not like I spent all summer just watching episodes of Robot Chicken, The Simpsons, The Venture Brothers, and Ghost in the Shell. Sure, that took up 80% of my free time,… Read More »

When Is a Bike Not Transportation?

By | September 16, 2007

Question: When is a bike not transportation? Answer: When your inside the confused brain of US Transportation Secretary Mary Peters. There is a great article on Salon exposing Peters’ pandering to the automobile and truck industries. In a recent appearance on PBS’s “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer”, Peters claimed that bridge and highway repairs were being… Read More »