Archive for August, 2008

xkcd

I love the moments when you find something absolutely new to you on the internet that’s actually been around quite a while. Quite a while perhaps only meaning a year, but for some reason you can’t help but read through everything on that site. Lately, I found yet another web comic that had [...]

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5 x X

Well, I’m not actually bowling this year, but rather subbing for the guys in Stoughton, and tonight was night 1 of probably the next 4 since golf league is still going on for one member there.  Problem is, you see, these guys actually play to win on Thursdays as opposed to last year’s playing on [...]

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Gmail security

Via Slashdot, I’ve become aware of a new option in Gmail that allows you to do every aspect of its doings under encryption via https. This is a good thing as the same page also talks about a new tool about to be released that allows anyone to grab your google credentials when using [...]

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Yahara video

I’m finding I should really plan more in making these videos, however it’s a bit difficult when I’m seeing everything for the first time myself and have no idea what is coming up. And hell if I’m going to run ahead and plant a camera to capture me going by. So I either [...]

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Vacation: End

Ok, so the week of fun is over.  Irish Fest was fun, Door County was sweet, Kettle Moraine South was awesome and the Yahara River expedition was a milestone.  What I didn’t accomplish was actually getting into Lake Michigan in my kayak or setting foot in the upper or lower dells.  I got too distracted [...]

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Brutal

I’m wondering if I can actually live up to my vacation goals.  The past 2 days I have absolutely punished my body and I’m supposedly only getting started.  The paddling today was the longest I’ve ever done in my kayak as it took around 6 straight hours to get to Stoughton from Madison.  While I’m [...]

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Screencasts

For those wanting to know what actually happens when you create the subdomain blog or are hesitant to create one because you don’t know how to, don’t understand what it’s about, etc, I’ve created a small 10 minute screencast leading you through the steps to create one, including showing the necessary things to do to [...]

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Vacation: Start

Vacation #2 begins now… assuming I’m not called in tomorrow, which I’m fairly certain I won’t.  However, things that will be accomplished in no particular order:

Bike from Stoughton to Madison then kayak back to Stoughton through the 4 connecting lakes and Yahara River.
Paddle the Dells.
Paddle the Lake Michigan side of Door County and see Rock [...]

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On kayak size

So, after thinking about how my Kickapoo trip went, how other trips like it have went, and trying to find similar trips like it to explore in Wisconsin without being such a chore, I decided I should think about the offer that Rutabaga has about trading up.  Within two years of purchase, you can bring [...]

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It’s not the heat, it’s the…

dew point. Today just proved that I’d rather have a 0 degree day over today’s madness of 75-80 degrees, with 80-90% humidity and a dew point of 73 degrees. In other words, it was a sauna. It also stormed a couple times, which did nothing in the way of relief except make [...]

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