Author Archives: Silicon Valley Dazed
ABC News: Silicon Insider: Forbes Fumbles the Blogosphere
ABC News: Silicon Insider: Forbes Fumbles the Blogosphere So my question is how big money is going to be made through blogs. I’ve always loved using a computer to keep a personal log back to my Kaypro II days, and I love Blogger and WordPress, but where’s the money going to be coming from? Malone … Continue reading
Schwarzenegger Street
Schwarzenegger Street This is hilarious. Whatever happened to Richard Chavez from Predator and the War of the Worlds TV Series? I mention this since that War of the Worlds series was seriously scary and the 1st season DVD just came out. I mean, dead Martians coming back to life from sealed drums stored throughout the … Continue reading
Bike commuting in the dark
Daylight savings time is over, and it’s dark now when I bike home to work. I was ready to go tonight with my NiteRider light out front, and two blinking red lights in the back. One of the red lights is on my seatbag, and the other one is on my backpack. The reason I … Continue reading
Tinker doing RAAM
Wow, Tinker Juarez training for RAAM. I guess Lance has raced mountain bikes… MTB news and notes: Downhill; the Next Generation; Tinker keeps on tickin’ Tinker hits the road With the disintegration of the Siemens/Cannondale professional mountain bike team at the end of 2005, 44-year old American mountain bike legend David “Tinker” Juarez will continue … Continue reading
iBook memory removal
The iBook had a crash again last night, so I removed the 1 GB SODIMM from it, and it seems to be working fine now on 256 Mb of memory. Since I really don’t stress out the iBook with a lot of apps, I’ll probably leave the memory configuration alone or add 256 Mb at … Continue reading
Bad news for Symantec and Mercury Interactive
My office is right by Mercury Interactive and the Veritas offices of Symantec. It was a bad day for the stocks of both companies: A 19.3 percent drop in Symantec’s shares took the Cupertino security-software maker off the list of the valley’s 10 most valuable tech stocks. Symantec stock fell $4.63 to $19.37 after the … Continue reading
EPO maker to back California Tour
EPO maker to back California Tour I’m thinking of a witty quip for this, but EPO has done a lot of good for patients who need to increase their red blood cell count. It appears Amgen is aware that EPO has been abused in endurance sports like cycling, and in some weird sort of way, … Continue reading
PMU reset to fix cranky iBook
Two times last night, my iBook just froze and I received this error message telling me to restart the computer. After some research, I found that resetting the PMU might solve my problems. I reset the PMU per the instructions on this page at Apple.com, and the computer seems to be much faster now. More … Continue reading
Gimme a brake: Brake options for ‘cross
Gimme a brake: Brake options for ‘cross A good primer on brakes for cyclocross. I always wondered why cross bikes still have those old school cantilever brakes. The UCI should just allow disc brakes since they would be the best solution for the muddy conditions on some cross races.
Running all network checks through Spamassassin
In addition to Spamassassin, I’ve been running the sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org and relays.ordb.org rbls by themselves. If there were any hits on those two rbls, the mail was automatically classified as spam. Unfortunately, I think there were some false positives in the rbl hits. Now I’m assigning points to rbl hits in Spamassassin, so if a mail … Continue reading