Category: Off-topic
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Really Messed Up My Email
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted anything on Operation Gadget in almost two days, I really messed up my email archive. When I start my email client, my computer tries to rebuild the indexes on my inbox and ends up hanging after 20 or 30 minutes. I am attempting…
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Met Doc and Joyce Searls, and a Number of Other Interesting People
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI finally met Doc Searls in person last night at a reception in his and his wife’s honor at Andrew Rasiej‘s house in Manhattan. Being there was one of the neatest experiences I’ve ever had as a result of running a weblog. I met 10 or 15 people that broadened my…
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eBayers Hoarding LiveStrong Yellow Wristbands
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today The Wall Street Journal reported that eBay is hosting the auction of hundreds of individual LiveStrong yellow wristbands because they do not have a rule against profiting on the resale of them. [ Paid subscription required to access the article. ] I visited eBay today and saw that eBayers are…
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Suggestions for Finding a LiveStrong Yellow Wristband Outside the United States
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiveStrong Yellow Wristbands can be ordered from the Discovery Channel On-Line Store by customers in Canada and the United Kingdom. In other countries, buy from the Lance Armstrong Foundation On-Line Store. Over the last few days, thousands of visitors have come to Operation Gadget from Google and other major search engines, looking…
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Meeting Other LiveStrong Yellow Wristband Wearers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night, I stopped in to Cranbury Pizza to pick up dinner. While I was paying, a young woman that worked there shouted, “Hey he’s got one of those wristbands too!” I looked up and saw that she had been talking to a co-worker who wears a LiveStrong yellow wristband, and…
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Outside Magazine Produced a Solid Series of 2004 Tour de France Preview Articles
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOutside Magazine did a fine job previewing the 2004 Tour de France in its July 2004 issue. Five major articles including: An interview with Lance Armstrong when he was still training in California. (Excerpt available on-line.) An article about Tyler Hamilton, including many more details of his life before cycling than…
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Building an Open Source Mail Server is a Lot Harder Than it Looks Sometimes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve really been cranking away for the past few days, trying to put the finishing touches on a state-of-the-art Postfix+Courier-IMAP+SASL2+PAM+MySQL+Amavisd-new mail server. If you remember my article from 10 days ago, First Run of the Season in the Heat is Always Depressing, I feel the same way I did then, but…
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Where to Buy a LiveStrong Yellow Wristband
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiveStrong Yellow Wristbands are available from the Discovery Channel On-Line Store or the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It’s pretty obvious that some people are visiting Operation Gadget looking for information on the availability of LiveStrong yellow wristbands. The Get It Here link prominently displayed on the Wear Yellow website, sends you to the…
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New Book About Lance Armstrong Accuses Him of Doping, Raises Old Issues
Reading Time: 2 minutesAFP reports that Lance Armstrong has been accused of cheating during both his pre- and post-cancer careers in a new book that is about to be published in France. Excerpts of the book L.A. Confidentiel appear in this week’s l’Express, a French magazine. I read the excerpts of the book using the…