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Yoga Poses for Cycling

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Pada Sanchalanasana is an Indian translation for Cycling Pose.
Yoga Asanas….towards supreme fitness

The Downward Facing Dog
The Upward-Facing Dog
The Puppy Dog
More Yoga Poses for Cyclists

Dandasana
Virasana
Tadasana
Padahastasana
Uttanasana
Chaturanga Dandasana
Urdhva Mukha Svanasana
Adho Mukha Svanasana
Jathara Parvivartanasana
Malasana II
Janu Sirsasana
Paschimottanasana
Savasana
Yoga for Cyclist – Cycling & Yoga – A Yoga Sequence for Cyclist

Arms & Wrists. Your arms should be placed at right angles to your torso, in line with your shoulders. Your wrists should be in line with the shoulders or just slightly wider than them in order to distribute upper body weight evenly. If your arms are spread too wide, you can strain your shoulders. Too narrow a hold can collapse the chest, though for racers, a narrow stance improves handling when going downhill. To strive for this alignment, practice a modified Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana) with the arms bent, or a modified Downward-Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana), with the forearms flat on the floor, approximating the angle of your arms on your bike.

Torso. Your spine should be in a neutral position and your chest should be open so you can lean forward without strain. A strong, neutral spine allows the chest to open, which in turn facilitates oxygen intake. Tight hamstrings will limit how far the back will bend before forcing the chest to close. Try the standing forward bend Padahastasana or the seated forward bend Janu Sirsasana to achieve this neutral feeling in the spine.

Hips & Pelvis. The angle between the torso and the hips should not be hard or sharp—there should be adequate space for the hips to move freely. Warrior Pose (Virabhadrasana I, II, & III) can give you a sense of this open connection between the torso and the hips. Your saddle should be essentially flat-tilted slightly, to a maximum of three to five degrees. Just as the proper angle of your pelvis in Downward-Facing Dog allows you to distribute your weight evenly through your hands, arms, legs, and feet, a seat tilted too far forward tips the pelvis and adds undue pressure to the hands and wrists.
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Get into the Flow
Alignment will help you economize energy, allowing you to ride longer, more comfortably, but there are other yoga principles and practices that will also serve you well on a ride:
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Yoga for Cross Training – Yoga for Cyclists
Yoga Journal

1. Chest Expansion:
During your ride take time to periodically open the chest and pull the shoulders back and down, squeezing the shoulder blades together and contracting the back muscles. Take 10 deep breaths into opening in the chest and shoulder, which remain contracted during the ride. While riding try to keep the shoulders relaxed and open.
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2. Cobra Pose:
A chest and shoulder opener – lying the body face down on the floor, place hands underneath shoulders and gently press to arms towards straight but not all the way, keeping a slight bend in the elbows. Protect the lower back by keeping the hips on the floor and squeezing the gluteus (those muscles you were sitting on) tight.

Quad Stretch:
Lying facedown on the floor – bend one leg and grab onto the ankle – gently pulling the leg back and up – try touching your foot to your gluts. Switch sides. This can also be done standing. Be cautious if you have knee problems.

Upside Down Pigeon Poses:
Lying face up on the floor, lifting the legs to knee height off the floor, bring the right ankle to the left quadriceps – aiming for a spot on the leg midway between knee and groin. Pull left knee in towards body, push right knee away gently until you feel a deep stretch in the hip and glute are. Hold for 10 deep breaths and switch sides.

Forward Fold:
When at resting heart rate, standing, hinge at the hips folding forward – grab onto elbows, or more intense- grab ankles – with fluid breathing sink a little further on each exhale, letting the crown of the head move towards the floor and relaxing the head and neck as much as possible. Take 10 deep breaths. This poses is not recommended for anyone with a heart condition or if heart rate is higher than resting.

Lateral Flexion:
Due to the position on the cycle it is common to have tight latisimus dorsi ( Lats ) as they are contracted for most of the ride. With this stretch we can open the sides of our bodies. Standing brings both arms overhead; bring the right arm down resting the hand on the hip. Inhale, lifting out of the lower back. Exhale sink the left arm overhead until you feel a deep stretch up the left side of the body. Keep the glutes tight and the lower body moving forward as the upper body continues to lift and sink. Take 5 deep breaths and then switch sides.
Yoga For Cycling And Spinning

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Key Property on Common Controls Tab 6 Doesn’t Work With Numeric Values

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

I’ve discovered a recent defect in the MS Common Controls Tab and it seems to be undocumented. So, I’ll document it here for the next poor sap. This applies to Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft Common Controls 6.1, MSCOMCTL.OCX 6.1.97.82 February 23, 2004. Perhaps it was fixed in and earlier or later version. If so, it would be nice if that fix was easy to find on the ‘net.

If you put a string that that only contains valid number characters into a tab’s Key property and error results. If you are suppressing errors in this section of code, like we are, then you won’t notice until you pull the Key property and a blank string comes back.


Dim tabPage As MSComctlLib.Tab
If (m_col.Count = 0) Then
Set tabPage = m_TabStrip.Tabs(1)
Else
Set tabPage = m_TabStrip.Tabs.Add
End If

tabPage.Caption = sName
tabPage.Key = sName

The solution sucks. Basically, the Key property is unuseable, but lots of code is already depending on it. So, if sName is numeric I can prefix/suffix an obviously non-numeric character and then go fix all the code to look for this character. Or I can do this on ALL strings put into the Key property.

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New Bike Purchased

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

I should be riding now, but I can’t help but update the computer stuff a little..

On Friday, I was in Albuquerque and got a new bike from Two Wheel Drive. The link is below. It’s last year’s Bianchi touring bike. The color is described as Gang Green. Looks more like gangrene to me. Not very pretty, but that’s just paint. The components are better than the 2008 model and at a reduced price.

Right now, it’s sitting in the bicycle shop. They are swapping out the tires with slick 1.1″ tires, dual sided clip/normal pedals. It’ll probably be shipped Mon. and show up Wed. or Thurs. At home I have a rear carrier and fenders that I can add to make it more amenable to commuting if I start to go in that direction.

I’m excited to begin breaking it in.

It’s been two decades since the original Volpe turned heads with the then-novel combination of road bike smoothness and mountain bike toughness. The modern Volpe has evolved into a popular, go-everywhere road/trail bike. Its steel frame delivers a smooth ride plus carrying capacity for commuting or distance touring. Its wide, low gearing and 32C tires will tempt you to steer the Volpe onto dirt roads for fun. It even gives you in-season cyclocross capabilities. What’s not to like?
2007 Volpe

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Touring Bicycle Links

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

http://www.bicycletouring101.com/
The True Story of The Decline of The Touring Bike

Touring bicycles are usually equipped with luggage racks front and rear, designed to hold panniers or other forms of luggage. Because of the increased weight requirements and reliability demands, touring bicycles typically consist of steel frames and forks, comfortable handlebars and saddles for long-distance riding, combined with durable hubs, double-wall rims and 36-spoke wheels to provide the durability and reliability essential for loaded touring. Sometimes instead of panniers bicycle trailers are towed. Some riders prefer them because they provide a low center of gravity and can be detached easily. However, they decrease maneuverability.

Touring bicycle frames typically have a long wheelbase and stable steering geometry, with numerous attachments for luggage racks, fenders (mudguards), lights, water bottles, tools and spare parts. Chainstays must be long enough to accommodate panniers without their brushing the rider’s heels, and the entire structure must be stiff enough to safely handle long, fast descents with the machine fully loaded.

Touring bicycles traditionally employ wide-ratio derailleur gears, often with a very low gear, referred to in some countries as a “granny gear”, for steep hills under load. internal-geared hubs have become popular in recent years because of their robustness and low maintenance.

Touring bicycles are sometimes equipped with cantilever brakes or linear-pull brakes, instead of the caliper brakes used on racing bicycles. The need for mudguard (fender) and wide tire clearance can sometimes preclude the use of caliper road brakes, which may be excessively large and flexible if made to fit a touring bike. Some newer touring bicycles use disc brakes, because of their superior stopping power in wet weather.

Thus, touring bikes trade some speed for utility and ruggedness. This combination is popular with commuters and couriers as well.
Wikipedia

Jennifer’s Bicycle Commuting Suggestions

Hennessy Hammocks are most comfortable when suspended off the ground as a bugproof enclosed bed or folded into a chair or lounger for relaxing around camp. When there are no trees or other supports, they are superior to a bivy sack when set up on the ground as a tent.
Hennessy Hammock

Crazy Guy on a Bike

Klean Kanteen – Steel water bottle

Nordic Group Bike Recommendations

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Bike Speed

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Often I’m curious how fast I’m going. This is a simple table or calculating speed by how long it takes you to cover a mile. Bike computers are nice, but I notice that I obsess over the thing. It’s in my face all the time and this kind of takes away from the ride. How fast am I going, how much further, etc.

If you are on a route with mile markers or there are points where you know the distance you can easily calculate you speed with a watch. Highways are great for this, because they have a marker for every mile. The only time I wear a watch is on the bicycle.

This method multiplies out easily. So, you can figure it in your head with memorizing just a few numbers. Notice that the miles are almost all 1 and the minutes in the table almost don’t repeat. You can memorize 4 minutes. At 1 mile that’s 15 mph. For 3 minutes, 1 mile is 20 mph.

Example
My usual route breaks up into 3 mile segments. Let’s say, I cover one segment in 24 minutes. Divide 24 by 3 and you get 8. That’s 8 minutes per mile and for 8 that’s 7.5 mph.

How about something more common. A 3 mile segment in 16 minutes. 16 and 3 don’t divide. But, 15 and 3 divide to give 5. 5 is 12 mph. We didn’t make 15 minutes, so the speed is lower than 12, but close. Actually, it’s 11.25 mph.

mile(s) time (min) speed (mph)
1 1 60
1 2 30
2 5 24
1 3 20
2 7 17+
1 4 15
2 9 13.3
1 5 12
1 6 10
1 8 7.5
1 10 6

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Harlequinn Bugs do eat Radishes

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

I’m dealing with a major, out-of-control Harlequin bug infestation. A lot of advice I have seen recommends planting radishes to discourage them. This is blatantly false. I have observed Harlequin bugs attacking radishes of at least two varieties; Icicle and Red Cherry. The flea beetles took out the leaves and the bugs ate the sap out of the main stems. Attacks are conducted on the stems of plants. You may not see leaf damage, just a slight white discoloration on a stem. Very bushy plants give them a lot of places to hide. The orange and black bugs are colorful and very easy to spot.

With the radishes almost dead, the sunflowers have proven a major food source. 4′-5′ tall sunflowers are being leveled from the top down.

I tried old bottles of Neem oil and Garlic oil to no affect other than giving the little critters a bath. Another suggestion is dishwasher soap, which I haven’t tried.

One site mentioned the only natural predator was a praying mantis. It would have to be huge, like 3″-6″, because these aren’t tiny like flea beetles or aphids.

Normally, I would wait for a predator to appear and just damp down, but the situation is so extreme I tempted to use Sevin or something else to outright kill them. After the sunflowers, the only remaining meals are vegetables and Zinnias.

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Digital TV Transition

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

On February 17, 2009 all full-power broadcast television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting on analog airwaves and begin broadcasting only in digital. Digital broadcasting will allow stations to offer improved picture and sound quality and additional channels. Find out more about whether or not you will be impacted by the digital TV (DTV) transition.
http://www.dtv.gov/

Analog TVs Will Need Additional Equipment to Receive Over-the-air Television When the DTV Transition Ends
converter box imageConsumers who rely on antennas (including outside antennas and “rabbit ears”) to receive over-the-air broadcast signals on TV sets having only analog tuners will need to obtain separate digital-to-analog set-top converter boxes to watch over-the-air TV. These boxes receive digital signals and convert them into analog format for display on analog TVs. Analog sets connected to such converter boxes will display digital broadcasts, but not necessarily in the full, original digital quality.

Cable and Satellite TV
Cable subscribers may need new DTV equipment to view DTV programming in digital format. You should ask your cable provider what you will need and when.

Satellite subscribers may need new DTV equipment to receive and view high definition digital programming. You should ask your satellite company what you will need and when.

Analog TVs will continue to work with cable, satellite, VCRs, DVD players, camcorders, video games consoles and other devices for many years.

HiDef or HDTV, new LCD or Plasma TVs have nothing to do with digital TV.

The digital TV transition is for one purpose. To reclaim the UHF and VHF public airwaves for resale by the FCC to private telecommunications firms. Only broadcast TV carried over an antenna is affected. Cable is unaffected unless the cable company decides otherwise.

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NS: Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait.

Twenty years ago, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski of Michigan State University in East Lansing, US, took a single Escherichia coli bacterium and used its descendants to found 12 laboratory populations.

The 12 have been growing ever since, gradually accumulating mutations and evolving for more than 44,000 generations, while Lenski watches what happens.
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But sometime around the 31,500th generation, something dramatic happened in just one of the populations ñ the bacteria suddenly acquired the ability to metabolise citrate, a second nutrient in their culture medium that E. coli normally cannot use.

Indeed, the inability to use citrate is one of the traits by which bacteriologists distinguish E. coli from other species. The citrate-using mutants increased in population size and diversity.
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That meant the “citrate-plus” trait must have been something special ñ either it was a single mutation of an unusually improbable sort, a rare chromosome inversion, say, or else gaining the ability to use citrate required the accumulation of several mutations in sequence.
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In the meantime, the experiment stands as proof that evolution does not always lead to the best possible outcome. Instead, a chance event can sometimes open evolutionary doors for one population that remain forever closed to other populations with different histories.

Lenski’s experiment is also yet another poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists, notes Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. “The thing I like most is it says you can get these complex traits evolving by a combination of unlikely events,” he says. “That’s just what creationists say can’t happen.”
Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab

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The Unnoticed Passing of Tasha Enloe

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

On memorial day morning a friend of mine was riding her bike near Vega, TX, struck by a car and killed. There are many things that can be said about Tasha. She was a cancer survivor, long time bicyclist, computer programmer, charity fund raiser, and friend to many people. This story isn’t about her. It’s about the odd behavior or the media outlets in Amarillo, TX. Specifically, KFDA, KVII, KCIT, KAMR, and the Amarillo Globe News seem to all have completely missed the story.

In an age were every auto accident gets at least 3 sentences on the evening news and possibly 10 seconds of video, this story has gone nearly unmentioned. KVII has a brief mention on Wed. the 28th. The newspaper had an obituary, mention of funeral services, and a very brief piece over a wk later. The websites that these organizations participate in has been similarly brief.

Amarillo is NOT a bike friendly town, no matter what the mayor says. Not as long a bicyclist can seemingly be driven down for whatever reason and killed without question and hardly a mention in the local media outlets. As long as this story is basically unreported such accidents are likely to happen again. IMHO, all the local media have rescinded any moral or ethical obligations they may have about reporting the news here.

It is interesting to note that two weeks after the incident the Amarillo Globe News finally ran one piece on Sun. 6/8/2009. It goes out of it’s way to mention as little about the driver as possible and shows a lot of attention to Katie’s law, which gives DPS the ability (Did they need any?) to more thoroughly examine drivers over the age of 79. I’m unable to link to this article, because it does not seem to be on their website. Curious.

KVII: http://www.kvii.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=139084
Is for sentences long on 5/27/2008 and fails to mention the driver, bicylcist, or much else. And it states that the DPS troopers are still investigating. Investigating what? All the information would be available on the scene; tire tracks, witnesses, evidence of DUI or DWI, etc.

KAMR: http://myhighplains.com/content/fulltext/?cid=8749
This post also from late Tuesday, has more information. Like the name of the driver, more details of the accident, Tasha was wearing her helmet, etc.

KAMR: http://myhighplains.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=452&sid=96a8691334ddb2654416ba1c56fd34f5
KAMR also runs a forum and someone posted questions about this accident. The thread started on Tuesday. It doesn’t contain any answers.

Globe News: http://www.amarillo.com/stories/060408/new_10478422.shtml
Amarillo.com has a bit more information than the accident. Though it was posted on Wednesday, a full 2 days after the accident. It also has a number of unanswered questions in the comments section. Why was there a delay in reporting this? Is there going to be a follow-up? How fast was the vehicle going? etc.

KFDA does not seem to have any mention of Tasha or a bicycle accident on Monday. For them, it did not happen.

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FIB 32: Controlling HIV Evolution

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

These are notes I made while listening to the podcast. Some very interesting stuff about AIDS. It seems to be teaching scientists quite a bit.

FIB 32: Controlling HIV Evolution
AIDS has an uncanny ability to modify itself faster than the body can keep up. There is more diversity in one human body infected with AIDS than a year of Influenza. We can all see the difficulty our scientists have in coming up with the right Flu vaccine. Often a person has antibodies to a strain of AIDS that they had 6 months ago, but the virus has mutated away from that structure.

The problem with curing AIDS is that the virus, upon entry into the cell, bonds itself to the cell. Our current concepts don’t contain a way to excise that portion of the cell. The entire cell must be killed. That’s why current therapies only suppress the virus.

The interesting bit is that viral materials fuse within the cell. So, how much of our DNA/RNA comes from a virus? How much of our evolution comes from viral materials that represented a positive trait and were passed on to children? Obviously, to be passed on the virus must fuse with DNA in male sperm creating cell and/or a female egg cell.

1% of Caucasians seem immune to AIDS, because their cells lack CCR5 on the surface of cells. This is used by

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Working for Gratitude

Monday, June 9th, 2008

So, how does a gratitude based economic system work? Such a thing has been in development for some time. It’s in Open Source software. Most projects have taken to accepting donations. This model is not only applicable to software, but to services.

Jeff Atwood has a great post on making donations to the independent groups that make “free” software.

Some example of donation based services are the IT Conversations podcast site and the TWiT (This Week in Tech) podcast network. Both rely on small ads and donations. The TWiT site is a great example at making it easy to donate. On the left side are four links. Most of them are for recurring donations.

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Cutting the Cable?

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

So, I had to call and have them turn on the cable tonight. Bills are details I don’t like to be bothered with. Usually, I blindly send money. The City of has been overpaid by 4 months or something.

It raised an issue. What if I removed the monthly cable bill altogether. What are my alternatives? Satellite, replaces one bill with another and they don’t always play well with TiVo. What about the Internet? A lot of attention is going to this lately. AppleTV, Joost, the Roku/Netflix box, Hulu, and whatever.

What do I watch
If I wanted to dump the cable company and go with Internet+DVD+AppleTV, what would I miss?
Battlestar Galactica – new
Dr Who – new to the US
Recent random stuff; Deadliest catch, 30 days, etc.
New HBO, this is getting drastically less
Law & Order, not as good this season
ER, boooring
Random old movies, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Total Recall, etc.
Southpark – new

Local channels come through an antenna and can get picked up by TiVo. All four or five.

So, what’s available to rent purchase on iTunes?
Torchwood 1-2
Farscape 1-4+
StarGate 1-10
some HBO

Financials
Cable is $89.34/mo for Basic, Expanded, Digital Service (WTF?), CiniMax, HBO, the Box, and taxes. This would be 30 $3 movies or 22 $4 movies or ~3.5 TV seasons or 45 $2 TV episodes. Podcasts are free. Music is purchasable.

Ok, why is Suddenlink charging for Digital service when they want to switch everyone over to it for cheaper service call? And the FCC is about to mandate it next year so they can sell the UHF/VHF spectrum.

The hardware costs for AppleTV are “fixed”. $230 for 40 gig or $330 for 160 gig. Assuming that $45/mo in content is purchased the payback period is 5 and 7 mo, respectively.

Advantages
One nice feature is the integration of iTunes w/everything. The MacBook, AppleTV and RAID box can all play music and podcasts off one another. With an AirPort, this can be transmitted wirelessly w/o a computer on the other end. Some content is on iTunes that is not available on TV. That’s a surprise.

Content is not available by just turning on the TV. It’s on demand and my decisions affect cost directly. I no longer support entities I disagree with. Pick and choose TV.

Can be cheaper.

Disadvantages
Cable is really, drastically cheaper than this. TV shows should be $.50/episode and movies $1-2 for old and $3-4 for new. These are rentals and low quality at that. Rented content is expensive.

No DVD player in the AppleTV.

TiVo is far less useful. It can still download content of it’s own and I’m already locked in at a low price. So, I won’t turn it off

It’s hard to push RCA outputs over coax cable. These existing TVs in other rooms all use coax, because it’s more efficient to wire and runs longer w/o degradation.

Hours of delay in the purchase decision to viewability. Downloads are sloooow. I’m not willing to jump carriers unless NTS screws up or dies. AT&T and Suddenlink are fast, but really awful to deal with.

Overall
Local TV is about the same. TiVo will work with it. Need to look for digital antennas.

It’s a different idea. There will likely be some hiccups.

I can experiment with the Mac Mini. It does have a player and play most DVDs. iTunes is built in and all the remote controls are there. It’s just a little bigger.

Battlestar Galactica is my big hook. When they slow for a short time halfway through the season, I’ll look at cutting the cable. Most of the others, I weaned myself off of. No more Survivor, Amazing Race, Desperate Housewives, etc. And HBO keeps canceling all the good shows and throw up absolute crap for replacements. I’ve almost cut just HBO off. Idiots.

Maybe, this is something I want to do and maybe not. The 1st episode of Season 2 Torchwood is downloading right now. I should read more anyway.

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JR: No Way to Build an Operating System

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

This is no way to build an operating system. Microsoft Watch opines, based on the D6 conference stage show:
Windows 7 will ship in 2009, almost certainly in time for holiday PCs. Microsoft disclosed today that there would be no major architectural changes from Vista, which would greatly reduce development complications.
Check out this comment, in another of Joe Wilcox’s blogs, that appends some internal e-mails released during the dark days of DoJ.
MSFT has worked on WinFS for more than a decade without success in making it fast, reliable, and easy-to-use enough for release. The Longhorn “reset” in 2004 was in large part the realization that WinFS was still not ready for primetime.
At the June 2004 WWDC, Jobs blew away the MSFT engineers in attendance by demonstrating lightning fast Spotlight searches on Tiger (OSX 10.4). The court-released MSFT emails show how flabbergasted they were, and the imperative of getting the Tiger preview DVDs back to Redmond for reverse engineering. Comments by MSFT’s Jim Allchin and Lenn Pryor were priceless.
Here’s Pryor:
” You will have to take Vic’s disk…I am not giving mine up. ;) Tonight I got on corpnet, hooked up Mail.app to my Exchange server and then downloaded all of my mail into the local file store. I did system wide queries against docs, contacts, apps, photos, music, and my Microsoft email on a Mac. It was f*cking amazing. It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.”
Here’s Allchin:
“Yes. I know. It is hard to take. I don’t believe we will have search this fast.”
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/2008/05/no_way_to_build_1.html

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Amarillo Weather Today

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Record heat will be found for a second day for some this afternoon while our northern counties should keep the thermometer below the century mark. A very weak frontal boundary will work into the Oklahoma and Northern Texas Panhandles bringing slightly cooler temperatures and even a very small chance for a shower this afternoon…while our central and southern counties will be right back in the triple digit heat. Cooler weather and lighter winds will briefly make its way in by the end of the week.
http://www.newschannel10.com/Global/category.asp?C=72487&nav=menu429_3

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MR: Free iPod Touch with Mac Purchase for College Students?

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Apple is expected to launch its Back to School promotion tomorrow, and on the eve of its launch, we’ve learned that Apple is indeed going to be making it their biggest ever.

According to our sources, Apple will be offering a free 8GB iPod Touch ($299) to college students who buy a qualifying Mac (MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac Pro). Alternatively, students may choose to get an 8GB iPod Nano ($199). The promotion will run from June 3 to September 15th, 2008.
Free iPod Touch with Mac Purchase for College Students?

Apple.com Store

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