Operation Gadget

Month: September 2005

  • Switched to Shimano SPD-Compatible Mountain Bike Pedals and Shoes

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week I took advantage of a great sale and bought a pair of Peformance Forte Team Mountain Bike Pedals and Pearl Izumi Vagabond Mountain II cleated shoes from Performance Bike. Up to now, I’ve been riding with pedals that have toe clips on them, which I knew was taking away from…

  • 3rd Week of September 2005 Workouts

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week: Monday, September 12: Biked 9.9 miles in 45 minutes 2 seconds; Biked 4.6 miles in 23 minutes 6 seconds. Tuesday, September 13: Rest. Wednesday, September 14: Busy. Thursday, September 15: Played volleyball for 1 hour 56 minutes 41 seconds.…

  • September 12 – 18, 2005 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the third week of September 2005. 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…

  • Runner’s World Publishes Guide to Picking an MP3 Player

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRunner’s World Magazine published a guide to picking an MP3 player written by Gizmodo editor John Biggs. Conspicuous in its absense from this guide is the iPod nano, but not a surprise due to the fact that the review was written for a “dead trees” publication. Of real surprise, however, is…

  • Fios Favorably Reviewed by Walter Mossberg

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWalter Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal reviewed Verizon’s new fiber optic Internet access service called Fios today. He liked it. He happens to live in a town in suburban Maryland where Verizon has already rolled out Fios, so he compared it to Comcast’s basic cable-modem service that’s also available there.…

  • Getting My Motorola HS850 Bluetooth Headset Working With a Treo 650

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI received my Motorola HS850 Bluetooth Headset from Amazon.com yesterday and I’ve already used it during a 100-mile roundtrip from Newtown to West Chester, PA for a hockey officiating meeting. The sound quality was good on my end and the people I called thought I sounded good as well. This article focuses…

  • Alternatives to Staying in Washington, DC for 50-mile DC Fundraising Riders

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re participating in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope DC Fundraising Ride, doing the 50-mile route, and asking to be informed about shuttle services to the start line as I did, what was your reaction when you read this passage in an informational email that we all received last week? As…

  • Map of 2005 Tour of Hope 50-Mile DC Fundraising Ride

    Reading Time: 2 minutes2005 Tour of Hope DC Fundraising Ride: This is our best guess at the 50-mile route map. I used Gmaps Pedometer to convert a cue sheet to a map. Click on the picture of the map to see the route in a Gmaps Pedometer window.[ Image: Gmaps Pedometer / Google Maps ] Bryan Katz,…

  • Deadline for Raising $500 Minimum for Tour of Hope DC Fundraising Ride is Monday, September 19 at Midnight

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAttention Tour of Hope DC Fundraising Ride Applicants! Cecil Ledesma just pointed out to me that the deadline for raising the $500 minimum donation is Monday, September 19, at 11:59pm Eastern Time. That’s about six days from today. The organizers impose a cut-off so they can ship out registration packets in…