Operation Gadget
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1st Week of July 2005 Workouts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week: Monday, July 4: Spent the holiday with my family. Tuesday, July 5: Ran on the beach for 18 minutes 58 seconds. Wednesday, July 6: Ran for 1 hour 8 minutes 56 seconds. Thursday, July 7: Biked 8.6 miles in…
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July 4 – 10, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of July 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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CS Monitor Writer Took on Two of Stage 9’s Cols
Reading Time: < 1 minutePeter Ford of The Christian Science Monitor answered the proverbial question, How Hard is the Tour de France?, by renting a bike and tackling the Col de Grosse Pierre and Col des Feignes. These are the first two Category 3 climbs outside of Gerardmer at the beginning of today’s Stage 9.…
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TiVo Cuts Price of 40-Hour Series 2 DVR in Time for Most of the 2005 Tour de France
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re cursing the fact that you had to get up this morning to watch the extended coverage of Stage 9 of the Tour de France on OLN because you’d miss it otherwise, maybe it’s time for you to invest in a TiVo. You’re in luck if you’ve waited until now.…
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Endurance Sports for Charity Participation Discussed in the New York Times
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Thursday, Julie Howson (my sister) pointed out an article in The New York Times that discusses the growing tendency of non-athletes to participate in endurance sporting events while raising money for charity. Julie wrote: {Here’s an} interesting article that cites the “Lance effect” as one of the motivating factors behind doing…
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Velogal on What It’s Like to Have to Follow a Certain Vehicle in the Caravane
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDon’t miss the end of Sammarye Lewis’ Stage 8 Post on Velogal. It talks about what happens when the vehicle in the Caravane Publicitare that she is required to follow stops for a “nature break”. It’s quite funny.
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Heart Rate Monitor Data Integrated into OLN Broadcasts
Reading Time: 2 minutesPolar Electro has gotten a lot of airtime in the first week of the Tour de France by providing live data from their heart rate monitors in use by many riders. Data from their heart rate monitors appears in rider identification graphics, with the rider’s current heart rate, maximum heart rate, and…
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Back from the Shore and Finished Fixing Bugs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKathleen and I returned from the Jersey Shore on Thursday, but I wasn’t able to post anything due to a server problem. Apparently there was a bug in the MySQL database for Perl (that’s called DBD::mysql) that Movable Type didn’t like at all. I spent the time that I normally would…