Operation Gadget
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Several Lance Armstrong Rivals Are Now “a la Maison”
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the weekend, several of Lance Armstrong’s rivals abandoned the race including Tyler Hamilton, Haimar Zubeldia, and Denis Menchov. You know it had to be bad if Hamilton abandoned on a day when his foundation was running a fundraiser across the United States, that had cycling fans watching the stage in movie…
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July 12 – 18, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second 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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Armstrong Puts Major Time Between Himself and the Other Favorites at La Mongie
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI guess Samuel Abt got some of the action he wanted today. Lance Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team took advantage of a strategic opportunity and put significant time between Armstrong and the other favorites for the General Classification. Ivan Basso won the stage, but Armstrong thumped Jan Ullrich,…
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What Do You Expect When They Put All the Hard Stages at the End?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKudos to Samuel Abt of the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times for having the courage to write an article entitled Stray Cows Provide High Point for Boring Tour. I’ve sat and watched the leaders jockey for position in the last 400 meters of each stage, fighting to stay…
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Alteraxion Publishes Useful Summaries of Software Categories for the Treo 600
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Alteraxion weblog has published several articles that summarize the Treo 600 application software available in some important application categories. The best articles I’ve found there are: Treo 600 is Great but does it do Entertainment? Movies and Video on Your Treo 600 In addition, the site has links to an…
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Have Pitchfork, Will Travel
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Tour de France will hit the Pyrenees tomorrow. When this happens, you can expect to see Didi Senft, the most telegenic fan in professional cycing. Who is Didi Senft? He’s the man in the devil costume who is seen at strategic points in most stages of the Tour de France, the…
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Nike and LAF Sell LiveStrong Wrist Bands at End of Each Tour de France Stage, Some European Media is Still Critical
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are stories in major European publications that are not making it into the English language sites that provide Tour de France news. A good example of this is the article that appeared in Le Monde a few days ago about the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s efforts to raise funds at the Tour…
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Translating Tour de France News in Major Non-English Publications
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the techniques I’ve relied on this year while watching the Tour de France is reading non-English publications with the assistance of Google Language Tools. As a result, I’ve been able to read articles that appear in L’Equipe, Le Monde, Marca, and Gazzetta dello Sport, all major print publications written…
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Apple’s Quarterly Profits Triple, iPod Sales Nearly Double
Reading Time: < 1 minuteApple Computer reported that its third quarter net profit soared to $61 million, versus $19 million in the third quarter of 2003. It also reported that iPod unit sales reached 860,000, versus 470,000 in the year ago quarter. With numbers like this, Wall Street-types are bound to ask, “How long can…