Operation Gadget
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Pink Breast Cancer Wristbands Available from Target.com and Amazon.com
Reading Time: 2 minutesPink Breast Cancer Wristbandimprinted with Share Beauty.Spread Hope. were available fromTarget.com and Amazon.com in 2004. Pink Breast Cancer Charm Braceletswere available in 2005 from Target.com and Amazon.com. They benefitted The Breast CancerResearch Foundation. A lot of people have been searching for information about pink wristbands that are similar to LiveStrong yellow wristbands,…
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October 4 – 10, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first 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…
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Back from the 2004 Tour of Hope Finale
Reading Time: 2 minutesTour of Hope DC Fundraising riders Dave Aiello (left) andCecil Ledesma moments after crossing the finish line atThe Ellipse in Washington, DC. (Photo: Kathleen Aiello)[ More photos from the 2004 Tour of Hope ] Kathleen and I returned home from the 2004 Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope Finale late on Saturday night.…
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Google News to Add Operation Gadget as a Source
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI received an email today from the team that runs Google News confirming that Operation Gadget will be added to their news sources in the near future. I think that for a news-oriented weblog, this is the equivalent of being added to a Standard and Poors index. If we only had…
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Polar Updates Precision Performance Software, Again
Reading Time: < 1 minutePolar Precision Performance Software: comes with Polar hear ratemonitors like the Polar S-720i. Click on the chart to see more detail. Earlier this week, I received an email from Polar Electro that announced the latest upgrade to their Polar Precision Performance Software (Version 4.02.035). The features included in this update include:…
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Coast-to-Coast Ride Round Up
Reading Time: 2 minutesI can’t tell you how busy I’ve been preparing for the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope DC Fund-raising Ride. The amount of prep time required to thank your donors, work out logistics for your family to come watch, and do a few training rides is huge. Thanks to everyone who’s contacted me…
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Portable Speaker Systems for the iPod Compared
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Associated Press published a comparison of five portable speaker systems for the iPod by Dan DeLorenzo. He spent a month testing these systems in a variety of conditions with his iPod mini. The systems Dan evaluated were: Bose SoundDock, JBL On Stage, Creative Labs TravelSound, Altec Lansing InMotion Portable Speaker…
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Podcasting Howto Published by Engadget
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEngadget published an excellent podcasting howto by Phillip Torreone. The article includes: an explanation of podcasting, instructions on where to get podcasts, how to get podcasts onto your iPod from your PC or Macintosh, and podcast production tips for Mac users. One of the best features of Phililp’s howto is the…
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Sirius Satellite Radio Signs Howard Stern, Show Will Debut in January 2006
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Associated Press reported that Howard Stern has announced that he will be joining Sirius Satellite Radio beginning in January 2006. At that time he will leave Infinity Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Viacom, the current syndicator of his program. I was listening AM radio this morning while working in my office, and…