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Friday, July 29, 2005 10:25 AM

Fat Cyclist gets a new gig...

My wife and I have both been reading The Fat Cyclist , and he's now started writing a column for cyclingnews . His first entry is 2005 Tour de France Final Exam with Elden Nelson
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Monday, July 25, 2005 2:22 PM

The common desk

Not sure where I got this from: The Common Desk
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Monday, July 25, 2005 9:52 AM

BicycleClimbs.com

Last week I bought and set up hosting for BicycleClimbs.com . Thanks to all that recommended hosting services - I ended up at webhost4life , and it's been pretty painless so fair, with good tech support when I've needed it. The site is a slightly-improved
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Saturday, July 23, 2005 4:51 PM

C# team goals for the next year

Scott Wiltamuth, PUM for the C# team (and my ex-manager), has posted his goals for the next year, and is asking for feedback from the C# community.
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Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:58 AM

Fizik Microtex Bar Tape (yellow)

Last week, I ordered some of Fizik's high tech bar tape, the kind with the gel inserts under the panel. It was to replace the blue bar tape that probably looked okay on the stock Trek color scheme, but didn't look so good with the red/yellow scheme. So,
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Monday, July 18, 2005 10:16 PM

ASP.NET hosting solutions...

I'm looking for a low-cost provider with decent quality - something around 1G of disk, ASP.NET, and SQL server database included. Recommendations, or providers to avoid?
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Monday, July 18, 2005 1:39 PM

Tricks you can play on yourself, #35

I use on of the Belkin dual-head KVM switches on my main dev machine, but it doesn't work for setup, so I keep a separate USB keyboard hooked to the system. This morning, the system began to send "-" characters uncontrollably. I did a bunch of checking
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Monday, July 18, 2005 9:30 AM

Bio for my new book

When I first started writing columns for MSDN, my author bio was pretty dry. But, over time, I started to play around with it a bit. For example, in one of my columns, I ended the bio with: He's been programming long enough that he knows what 8-inch diskettes
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Sunday, July 17, 2005 5:46 PM

Bicycle Adventures Columbia Gorge Family Tour

Our vacation was, to put it succinctly, fabulous. Bicycle Adventures did a great job, our guides were great, and we had lots of fun. While some of their other tours require more bicycling ability, you could do the Columbia Gorge Family Tour even if you
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Friday, July 08, 2005 3:50 PM

Trailercycles for the Serious Cyclist

Trailercycles (aka tagalongs) - the single-wheel vehicle that attaches to a normal bicycle - have become pretty popular in the past few years. I looked at a few of these, and we settled on the Burley Piccolo , because: It attaches to a rack, and pivots
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Friday, July 08, 2005 9:55 AM

Gorge is also a noun

I'm taking next week off, going on a cycling tour along the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon (well, between Oregon and Washington). We had considered going back to Maui - which I love - but decided to go for something different this year. This is one of
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Monday, July 04, 2005 11:16 AM

What Eric's been doing...

...is none of your business. At least that's the answer I got a while back - I'm not currently at liberty to tell you much about what I've been doing. With any luck, as Longhorn gets closer to shipping, we will reach a point when I'll be able to tell
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Monday, July 04, 2005 11:12 AM

New Recommendations for Using Strings in Microsoft .NET 2.0

String comparisons are one of those topics that seem easy when you start, and then gets more and more complicated as you delve into it. Just be happy if you don't have to deal with internationalization... Via Rico , a great set of recommendations from
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Friday, July 01, 2005 8:58 AM

The Fleet type Submarine

Back when I was but a lad, I was a bit a of a WWII buff, and read through most of the WWII books available in my library. I always found the ones about submarines to be especially interesting, because of the stealth and bravery required. The US submarine
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