Operation Gadget
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Radica 20 Questions Handheld Game Looks Like Fun
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKevin Kelly of the Cool Tools website wrote a review of the 20 Questions Handheld Game from Radica that’s definitely worth checking out. He says this is a slightly scaled-down version of the 20q.net website, which is a neural network designed to play a game of 20 questions against a visitor…
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Lopez de Munain Injured in Serious Stage 2 Crash
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI tuned into the OLN-sponsored webcast of Stage 2 of the Giro d’Italia at about 9:30am EDT because I was curious as to how good the viewing experience would be. About half an hour after I started watching Euskaltel-Euskadi rider Alberto Lopez de Munain crashed heavily on the road side and…
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1st Week of May 2005 Workouts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week: Monday, May 2: Busy. Tuesday, May 3: Busy. Wednesday, May 4: 14.0 mile bike ride in 50 minutes. Thursday, May 5: 13.9 mile bike ride in 50 minutes. Friday, May 6: 5 kilometer run in 26 minutes 43 seconds…
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May 2 – May 8, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of April 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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Giro d’Italia Graphics Show Heart Rate Monitor Statistics for Some Riders
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the coverage of Stage 1 of the Giro d’Italia on the Outdoor Life Network earlier today, the video feed from Italian broadcaster RAI showed Liquigas-Bianchi rider Marco Milesi nearing the top of a Category 3 climb which counted toward the King of the Mountains prize. While the camera was on Milesi,…
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Cipollini Farewell Ride is the Highlight of the 2005 Giro d’Italia Prologue
Reading Time: 2 minutesI watched the Prologue of the Giro d’Italia on Outdoor Life Network earlier today. I thought that the staging of the Prologue was quite imaginative. The setting was a seaside promenade in Reggio Calabria at the southern tip of Italy. According to the stage description, Gabriele d’Annunzio called this road the most…
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Google Disappeared for a While on Saturday Due to DNS Issue
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt around dinner time on the East Coast, my wife Kathleen called from Harrisburg, PA. She and her sister Mary planned a weekend away for the two of them and were looking for directions to a movie theater. I tried to pull up Google Maps and got a DNS error. Then…
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Jason Koop Provides Training Tips Useful to Tour of Hope Applicants
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJason Koop of Carmichael Training Systems wrote a really useful training article about how to train for multi-day tours and relay rides such as the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope. He ought to know, he’s the Coaching Manager for the 2005 Tour of Hope. This article provides a wealth of information–…
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26:43.3 in First 5k Running Race of the Year
Reading Time: 2 minutesI ran in the 13th Annual Joe Vastano Memorial 5k in Hamilton, NJ tonight and finished in 26 minutes 43.3 seconds. Not bad considering that I’ve run twice since January. If you read Operation Gadget regularly, you know that I do four to six hours of aerobic exercise per week. At this…