Gave up on Road Bike, Going off Road with Santa Cruz Blur XC
Too much research can fry one’s brain. I have been looking for a new road bike forever. In the meantime my lust for the dirt has been growing so I bought a new Blur XC with SRAM…
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SEO – rip offs-R-us
I sat in a meeting at the university today and listened to a sales pitch by an SEO company. We get calls at The Plan Collection for these all the time. I need to setup one of…
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SQL Server 2005 Express error: 40
I ran into this error while trying to run some scripts on my SQL Server 2005 Express Database: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting…
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Ride Your Bike to Work and Get PAID!!!
Well sort of get paid. Congressman Earl Blumenauer is my new favorite politician. He introduced a bill that would give a tax break to people who ride their bike to work. With gas…
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2008 Madone Seatpost, and Trek love/hate
Interesting discussion on the new 2008 Trek Madone seatpost. Some people like it others hate it. There seem to be plenty of people that don’t like Trek just because they are a big…
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2008 Trek Madone Weight
Light Bikes posted stating the new Madone weighs 1400 grams (about 3lbs) for the frame, fork, headset and seatpost (integrated). Weight weenies rejoice. I know I am happy.
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Differences Between the Trek Madone 6.9 and 6.5
In my hour of pain as I lament the fact that I will have to wait until September to get a new Madone I have been doing some investigating. As per my previous post on Madone…
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 10th through June 11th
These are my links for June 10th through June 11th: Carmichael Training Systems: The Coaching Files: Nutrition for the Long Haul – Bike-Community.net – Mountainbike Forums – Up…
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New Shimano Ultegra
Shimano has released a new version of their Ultegra group. It comes in an ice grey color which is pretty cool and a bit lighter. The group includes an Ultegra branded compact…
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Why Trek Why?
I just went down to order a 2008 6.9 Madone. This is a $7900 bike. I am sure Trek wants my money, but damn it I want the bike. I read that they were already in production, but it…
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More Trek 2008 Madone Love
I don’t mean to be to big of 2008 Madone fan boy, but it is a sexy bike and my lust is driving me ever closer to droping the 6-8k required to put one of these under my butt (For…
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2008 Trek Madone prices
UPDATE: I bought a Madone 6.9 UPDATE: Here’s my first ride and first review of my new 2008 Trek Madone 6.9 As a follow up to my 2008 Trek Madone post I have some prices. I am sure…
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 7th
These are my links for June 7th: Rails Forum / Ruby on Rails Help and Discussion Forum / Tutorials – trekbikes.com: – The Paceline.com – The Official Fan Club of Lance Armstrong…
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Ruby on Rails Tutorials
If you love Ruby on Rails, and you should love it then you might enjoy these tutorials on Rails Forum.
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Girls can be mean
I have three daughters two are twins. Aubrey is the one that does what she is supposed to. Any time there is a reward system she gets the most of whatever it is. Currently, we are…
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2008 Trek Madone
I am writing Ruby code today and all of a sudden I need a fix for bike porn so I do my usual search for Time bikes, this time the Time VXS which is supposed to be a comfort bike…
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I can feel the fat finding its way back to my waste
Biking makes me hungry. My body starts to tune into the fact that it needs to eat, a lot. I have to say no, but then I see chocolate and I start to think, “a little isn’t so bad.”…
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Salt Lake City Drivers
We are headed to Salt Lake this friday for a wedding (yuck). However, I am thinking that this will provide and opportunity to go to my new favorite bike shop (Contender Bikes…
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My wife is pretty cool
So I am downstairs helping my wife do cleaning and restoration after my tornado children destroy the downstairs family room again. She says to me, “don’t you want to buy a big TV…
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Changes to Nested Routes in Edge Rails
When I first saw nested resources in this REST paper I thought cool that makes sense. So we started using the nested resource method in our projects. Then it got a bit wierd –…