Operation Gadget
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“The Lance Chronicles” Finale: Good Summary, But Disappointing to Regular Viewers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI tuned into the two hour finale of The Lance Chronicles last night on the Outdoor Life Network and I have to admit that I was disappointed. This was a very good condensation of the entire series for people who had not followed it from the beginning, but a problematic way…
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DirecTV to Offer PVR Alternative to TiVo in Early 2005
Reading Time: 2 minutesPVRblog has repeatedly pointed out the increasing possibility that DirecTV will stop offering its customers settop boxes with TiVo capabilities. The latest development occurred on Monday, when DirecTV announced that it would offer an alternative settop box with PVR capabilities in early 2005. Some analysts believe that the direct satellite broadcaster will…
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Carrier Application Locks Are Unacceptable for Smartphones
Reading Time: 2 minutesI totally agree with the points that Larry Garfield made in his editorial on infoSync World called Picking the carrier lock. According to Garfield: A larger problem comes with phone lock-down, that is, application locking. Many carriers tightly regulate what applications a user can install on a phone. Their claim is that…
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Siemens SK65 to Include Full Alphanumeric Keyboard and Blackberry Functionality
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out that Wireless Week provided details of the features expected in the Siemens SK65. According to the article, the SK65 will include a full alphanumeric keyboard, called x2type or cross-to-type. It can be deployed by rotating the bottom half of the two piece handset to a position perpendicular…
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What Kind of Training is Required to Succeed in L’Etape de Tour?
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the questions that I am most disappointed that I was not able to ask Chris Carmichael when Kathleen and I met him in Freehold on Saturday is, what kind of training effort would be required in order to successfully complete L’Etape de Tour? For those of you who have never…
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Bush, Kerry, and Their Respective Bicycles
Reading Time: 3 minutesAndrew Leyden pointed out an article in The New York Times yesterday that compared and contrasted George W. Bush and John F. Kerry’s bicycles, trying to infer something about their personalities. The author of the Times piece, Charles McGrath, is pretty clearly not a cyclist of any kind, since he dutifully recites…
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July 26 – August 1, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the last week of July 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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Met Chris Carmichael at “Food for Fitness” Book Signing
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy wife and I attended the book signing at Galyans Sports & Outdoors this afternoon for Chris Carmichael’s Food for Fitness and got to meet Chris Carmichael. A large number of Carmichael Training Systems customers, serious amateur athletes, and fans of the Tour de France were there to try to meet Chris…
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Clean and Lubricate Your Bike’s Chain In Order to Keep Performance High
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been riding my mountain bike 21 miles a day this week. On Wednesday, I noticed that I was laboring to maintain a pace that had been easy for me last week. After I got home, I checked out my bike and saw that the chain was extremely dirty and had almost…