Operation Gadget
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“Treo Essentials” Debuts at Amazon.com, Offers Treo 650-Specific Tips
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com has started taking orders for Treo Essentials: Get the Most from Your Treo 650 by Michael Morrison and published by Que. This is the first book I’ve seen that has come out with Treo 650-specific advice. Previous books like Now You Know Treo and to a lesser extent the Treo…
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Giant Provided Amateur Cyclists Opportunities to Ride the Courses of the Tour of Germany
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRichard Pestes of PezCycling News published an article about his experience riding the Time Trial course at the Tour of Germany (DeutscheTour) through a program called Giant Tour. Giant Bicycles apparently has a huge presence in Germany, in part because it is the bicycle sponsor of the T-Mobile Professional Cycling Team.…
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Donated to the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund for Hurricane Katrina
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the last two days, it’s become clear that the damage done by Hurricane Katrina to the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast region is one of the most serious disasters in American history. I told Kathleen yesterday that I think the destruction in New Orleans will have a more lasting…
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Thanks, Judge Bissell
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJudge John W. “Jack” Bissell, the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, retired from the bench today. I’ve known Judge Bissell since about 1990 when I joined the Metropolitan New York – New Jersey Chapter of the National Ice Hockey Officials Association. He was a member of…
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Mapping Race Courses with a GPS and Google Maps
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDave Mabe has published a couple of articles on compiling race maps by taking GPS tracklogs, processing them, and running the resulting data file through the Google Maps API. The articles are: Automated Running Logs using Google Maps Course Map using the Google Maps API Looks like he’s getting a lot…
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I’m Tired of Getting Ripped Off by Splogs
Reading Time: 2 minutesI want to join my friend Doc Searls in pointing out splogs and urging concerted action from the search engine providers and context-sensitive advertising services to take as much of the profit out of splogs as possible. According to Mark Cuban, a splog is any blog whose creator doesn’t add any written…
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LSU Professor Maintaining Hurricane Katrina Blog
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDr. Kaye Trammell, an assistant professor of visual communications at Louisiana State University, has set up Kaye’s Hurricane Katrina Blog and has been blogging regularly all night from Baton Rouge. That’s about 65 miles west of New Orleans. From what I’ve been able to read, Baton Rouge is west of the…
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4th Week of August 2005 Workouts
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week: Monday, August 22: Biked 10.6 miles in 52 minutes 29 seconds. Tuesday, August 23: Biked 10.4 miles in 44 minutes 4 seconds. Wednesday, August 24: Biked 10.6 miles in 51 minutes 3 seconds. Thursday, August 25: Rest. Friday, August 26:…
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August 22 – 28, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the fourth week of August 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 for…