Operation Gadget

Month: October 2004

  • Fox TV Season One DVD Sets on Sale at Amazon.com in Time for the Holidays

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBuffy the Vampire Slayer–The Complete First Season is onsale for $14.99 at Amazon.com.A number of other first season DVDseries for Fox shows are on saleas well. Slickdeals.net reported that Amazon.com has Fox “Season One” DVD Series on Sale for $14.99. The DVD sets on sale include: Buffy the Vampire Slayer –…

  • October 11 – 17, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of October 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…

  • Google SMS Provides Mobile Access to Some Useful Information

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLate last week, Google announced its Google SMS Service which allows you to send a text message containing a query to the mobile number 46645 (that spells GOOGL on most phone keypads). Google will respond with one or more of SMS messages that hopefully provide useful information. Examples of valid queries include:…

  • First Set of Tour of Hope Pictures Posted

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe first set of photos from the 2004 Tour of Hope Finale Event are now posted our new photo gallery server. I spent much of the middle of the day yesterday setting up the photo gallery and uploading the first set of photos. The photo gallery server is currently running a…

  • Migration to the New Server is Complete

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis article is being posted on the new Operation Gadget server. I moved all of the files from the old server to the new server between 5:00 and 8:00pm Eastern Time on Thursday night. It took me a little while after that to resolve problems with the Movable Type configuration because…

  • Operation Gadget Is Relocating to a New Server

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m in the process of moving the Operation Gadget website from one server to another. As a result, you may see some glitches over the next couple of days. I appreciate your understanding.

  • Good Samaritans Helped Me Finish the Tour of Hope After Mechanical Breakdown

    Reading Time: 4 minutes2004 Tour of Hope DC Fund-raising Ride:Map includes labels of places where eventsin this story took place. Data came from myGarmin Forerunner 201,and was mapped by GPS Visualizer.Click on the image for a larger map. I had a mechanical incident during the 2004 Tour of Hope DC Fund-raising Ride— one of the…

  • How I Generated a Tour of Hope DC Fund-raising Ride Map

    Reading Time: < 1 minute2004 Tour of Hope DC Fund-raising Ride:You are free to use this map on your website,provided you include the label“www.OperationGadget.com” as shown in theimage. Click on the image for a larger version. I prepared map of the 2004 Tour of Hope DC Fund-raising Ride using data from my Garmin Forerunner 201,…

  • “Victory at 12 Miles Per Hour” Captures the Attitude of the Tour of Hope Riders

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGreg Taylor wrote an article for CyclingNews.com called Victory at 12 Miles Per Hour that really captures what the riders in the Tour of Hope DC Fund-raising Ride were feeling on Saturday. Taylor wrote: … riding along Macarthur Boulevard on a sunny Saturday morning, the serious and sometimes sad business of…