Week 14
It was pointed out to me that I forgot to post my weight this week. On Monday, I was 229 pounds - up one pound from the previous week and down 17 from baseline. I don’t feel too bad about that, as 5 days last week were at the beach, not excercising and basically eating [...]
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Ask Mr. Bike
Today I go to test ride the Specialized Crossroads that they built for me at Turin Bikes. I liked the one I test drove last week, but the frame was just a little short for me so they have one that should be better for me. As we were discussing it around the office, a [...]
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The Game is Afoot
Things are up in my life, and while prudence says that I should be patient and wait a few days to make them public, the suspense is driving me nuts. Let me just say at this time that the changes are big, good and very happy-making.
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IE Security Hole Opens New Backdoor
Good lord almighty, Internet Explorer has been found to have a security hole so bad that loading websites with malicious JavaScript can allow attackers to take full control of a PC. According to that story:
Users are being told to avoid using Internet Explorer until Microsoft patches a serious security hole in it.
How many things like [...]
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Life 2.0
One of my coworkers saw a reference in Wired to this book,
Life 2.0. He thought of me when he read it, because it is all about people moving to places where the cost of living is cheaper and doing their job.This is stuff that consumes me, so this book is of great interest to me. [...]
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Ed Felten on Bayesian Spam Filtering
BoingBoing points to a post by Ed Felten on a possible poisoning attack that spammers could execute. In essence, he is saying that by choosing certain words to throw into the mess of words that spam frequently contains, spammers can incite people to train that word as a “spam word.” Says he:
Now suppose a [...]
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Dream Job for Some Dork
LucasFilm is looking for a software engineer to build internal tools for their organization. They want C or Perl skills and DB integration, so I imagine they are doing some sort of productivity web interface stuff. This will be the one job interview where talking about how you built your own working lightsaber from discarded [...]
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CajunBot
On the plane trip I brought some of my magazines that have been stacking up for a while. I only brought ones I didn’t want to archive, so I could read them and then trash or recycle them as I finished. One of the ones I had was a few months old La Louisiane. It [...]
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The Beach
It’s been a long time, too long, that I sat on a proper beach and cavorted in the ocean. The Chicago beachs are fine and pretty and all but the water is cold and it never seems right to not have that salt taste in your mouth. We spent part of the afternoon loafing in [...]
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The Terminal
For the first time in my life, I spent the night in an airport terminal. It seemed like a good idea at the time, after missing by a few minutes a connection at 11:30 PM and being booked on a flight that left at 7 AM. I figured that if we went to a hotel, [...]
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Jack Ryan on the Defense of Marriage
The Jack Ryan/Barack Obama race is my local Senatorial contest so I’ve been following it with some interest. This issue about Ryan’s divorce records has been going on since the primary. Over that whole time, he has wrapped himself with the cloak of “protecting his son”. This led me to believe that perhaps what was [...]
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WREK Play List
At this moment the headline on the WREK page is about their online playlist. This is a thing I’m highly proud of. When I was doing the automation system there, one of the things necessary to make it run was maintaining a database table keeping track of what things have been played. It was pretty [...]
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Pavitr Prabhakar, the South Asian Spider-Man
I’m interested in this comic of the Indian version of Spider-Man. I’m hoping that there is an English language version that is available in the US. It seems more interesting to me than much of the recent output in the domestic versions over the last decade or so. I like the notion of taking the [...]
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Moist Ride
If I was to be riding my bike back and forth to the train each day, one day or another I was bound to get rained on. Well, today was my baptism of … water. It was sprinkling when I first left the train station, which turned into a full rain about halfway home. Even [...]
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Solitaire
One of my favorite books of the last few years, Kelley Eskridge’s
Solitaire, is out in paperback. Pick it up, it is a fantastic read. She skips all the predictable and sappy choices and consistently goes straight to gut-wrenching. It’s a remarkably assured book for a first novel. Dave’s highest recommendation.
Of course, Kelley had nothing to [...]
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Week 13
This week I was not down any weight, still 18 pounds down from baseline. I actually did get more activity last week, more stair climbing and bike riding. It would have been good if I could have been the even 20 pounds but I’ll take what I have. With any luck this will be one [...]
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Ulysses
What with all the Bloomsday festivities last week, it’s worth noting that James Joyce’ Ulysses is freely downloadable from Project Gutenburg. I’ve never read it nor tried but I’m planning on downloading it to the Zaurus and giving it a crack.
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Meeting of the Minders
I saw this thing about the crews from Gapers Block and Chicagoist running into each other at the Handlebar. In one of those small world deals, I work with a guy who is part-owner of that joint. I need to get down there one time and give one of those bicycle bar stools a good [...]
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The Direction of a Death Spiral
Sometimes Dilbert really creeps me out by ceasing to be a comic strip and becoming a documentary of previous jobs I have had.
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The Right Tools and the Right Touch
Yesterday we went for the first round of bike shopping for me. We looked at one bike we really liked at Turin Bikes in Evanston. It was a Specialized Crossroads (I don’t know if that link is to the exact bike but it is very similar to that.) I’m looking for a reasonably inexpensive hybrid [...]
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