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View Larger Map General Area: Past the Calaveras Reservoir — Sunol to Milpitas Difficulty: Advanced Riders Ride Length: 15 Miles (Up to 1 Hour) Scenery: Up on a hill side overlooking the Reservoir or strolling through some farm lands. Special Notes: I don’t recommend this ride to anyone just starting riding (or just getting back…
==Background== The other week Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty was officially released, to my great enjoyment! Of course, I’d already been running it for a while on my ASUS Eee PC 1000. The one issue I had with it was that the Ubuntu Netbook Remix Alpha that I downloaded was for i386, and the Eee runs an…
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I’d like to introduce yet another of my half ass’d concepts of “regular programming”. This one is motorcycle related (::small cheer::). Basically in my random wanderings around wherever the hell it is I’m wandering, I’ve found a few nice/interesting/challenging/etc rides. Generally they aren’t too long, just short trips that I think are worth while that…
Recently, we’ve had an upwelling of spam at the office. The most problematic component of which is the fact that all the text is gibberish with only the images being “Spam”. If your spam filter doesn’t have an OCR plugin, it’s not going to do a very good job stopping the spam — which is…
BittenByBooks.com is currently (as in right this second) conducting an Interview with Jim Butcher. In the comments section the interview continues with Jim Butcher is responding to the fan questions. Heck he might even answer my question! If/when he does, I’ll post an update to the article. Also, in case you’ve been living in a…
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Words can’t even begin to describe the amazing stupidity of CNBC in their recent segment on “Money trend: Mac vs PC”. Gizmodo has an excellent article (with embedded video) about the segment, titled “CNBC Is Ridiculous: Macs Come With Photoshop, PCs Need $600 Extra to ‘Perform As Well As a Mac’“. Basically CNBC decided that…