Operation Gadget
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2nd Week of August 2005 Workouts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week: Monday, August 8: Busy. Tuesday, August 9: Busy. Wednesday, August 10: Biked 12.9 miles in 49 minutes 51 seconds. Thursday, August 11: Busy. Friday, August 12: Mowed lawn for 2 hour 2 minutes. Saturday, August 13: Busy. Sunday, August…
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August 8 – 14, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second 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…
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How to Find Your Tour of Hope Rider’s Donation ID Number
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today, Barry Penn Hollar emailed me to ask: I’m also registered {for the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope} and have been trying to figure out this Donor ID# thing. I see you have yours listed on your {Tour of Hope Fundraising} page. How’d you get it? A rider in the Tour…
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Help Me Ride the 2005 Tour of Hope Fundraising Ride in Washington DC
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Saturday, October 8, I’m going to join the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope by participating in a 50-mile fundraising bike ride ending in Washington DC. You can help me in this effort by making a donation to the Tour of Hope to support my ride. One hundred percent of the funds…
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Replacing My Mountain Bike Tires with Performance Topo FasTracs
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve got about 90 days of riding weather left in Newtown, PA, and I need new mountain bike tires. The old, reliable Continental Double Fighter on the rear wheel of my bike has started to develop holes in the center of the tread. I’m bound to start getting flats long before I…
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Official Tour de France Replica Yellow Jersey Offered by Discovery Channel Store
Reading Time: 2 minutesReplica Maillot Jaune from the 2005 Tour de France: Lots of Lance Armstrong fans are buying a Yellow Jersey to remember Lance’s seventh and final Tour victory. [ Photo: Discovery Channel Store ] The Discovery Channel Store is commemorating Lance Armstrong’s seventh-consecutive Tour de France victory by selling official replicas of the yellow jersey…
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Trying Del.icio.us and Del.icio.us Direc.tor to Get Control of My Web Bookmarks
Reading Time: 2 minutesdel.icio.us direc.tor: I’m trying to use a new AJAX application called del.icio.us direc.tor to manage my web bookmarks. Last week I said that leaving a browser window open to an interesting web page can be a productivity killer. Since then I’ve been looking for ways to better manage and track all of…
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Polar and Adidas Planning a Line of Apparel and Shoes with Built-in Fitness Measurement
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJanus Sandsgaard pointed out that Polar Electro is teaming up with Adidas to produce a line of fitness clothing and running shoes that will have embedded transmitters for heart rate and running speed and distance. According to a Polar press release, the products will collectively be called Project Fusion, and will…
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1st Week of August 2005 Workouts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week: Monday, August 1: Biked 10.0 miles in 40 minutes 54 seconds. Tuesday, August 2: Busy. Wednesday, August 3: Busy. Thursday, August 4: Biked 8.4 miles in 32 minutes 19 seconds. Friday, August 5: Mowed lawn for 2 hour 20…