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I just tried out the report feature of Garmin Connect. It does what I'd expect and does it pretty well. As I thought, I'm pretty behind last year's schedule. Only 25 versus 39 individual bike ride...
The Tour Tracker that was was used for US pro cycling races Tour of California and Tour of Missouri is taking on the world. The 2009 Giro d'Italia is being broadcast live online via the same Adobe ...
This is from the Wente Criterium in Livermore
Today I rode my last mile of 2008. It was a brief 18-mile loop near my home. I've been off the bike for the last 7 weeks, and in case you didn't know, here's why:On this final day of the year, I lo...
I've written a couple of time about the amazing Tour Tracker. This is an app that offers cycling fans real-time access to follow a race via their computer. the app was written by a cycling addict a...
I commute for about 40 minutes each morning and afternoon via the local BART train service. While twittering about my fellow passengers is fun and all, I have found a new way to pass the time. Laun...
Last week a new show debuted on the Discovery Channel. Prototype This! describes itself as "a team of engineers and PhD's are inventing the future one prototype at a time". I watched the premier wi...
In August of this year, Leah Buley and I presented at the Agile 2008 conference. We made a case for sketching and prototyping as a means to bridge the gap between traditional agile and UX processes...
Pile o' bikes at the finish lineAt around 10:00 this morning I was standing on the top of the highest peak in the local area. I've been there before, 10 times this year in fact. Today, however was ...
Dippity has probably been around forever, but it's news to me, and nifty. I built a timeline of my online presence.
In what is probably the largest celebration for Google Transit since their initial launch, the team announced support for the New York today. I know from the stories Chris tells me just how difficu...
Dear Yahoo!, can I please have one of your kick ass bikes? kthxbai.As part of a new viral advertising campaign called "Start Wearing Purple", Yahoo! has created some GPS-enabled bikes. The project ...
Ryan Carver takes some damn fine pix.Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
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Last Saturday I completed the Marin Century. This was my third time doing the full 100-miles. Prior to that I twice rode the 100K (65-miles). As you might guess, I am a fan of this particular event...
Still no transit love for Google Maps on the iPhone, but users of Windows Mobile phones and S60-powered phones (Nokia, etc) can now get directions via bus and train.Google Transit now supports over...
I'll start right in... this phone is freaking great. Yeah, there's little nits that I'll point out later, but I am firmly an iPhone fanboy. I've been eyeing the numerous iPhones in the office for a...
Two weeks ago I completed the San Jose LIVESTRONG Challenge. The event was a fundraiser for the Lance Armstrong foundation and thanks to my awesome supporters, I contributed $1050 and the entire Sa...
I returned from lunch to find this dialog front and center on my screen:Yikes!I use Plaxo to sync my Apple address book with Yahoo! If I believe that this isn't some sort of malware disguising itse...
I've come to a realization that I was looking for the wrong things in the N95 I'm reviewing for three weeks. It's not a computer, it's a camera phone. With that in mind, I find myself enjoying the ...
Yesterday I asked a colleague and N95 user Sebastian about pimping my N95. He said I should check out a few applications. On his recommendation, I checked out a few apps. Here's what I found.Sebast...
My daily commute is all messed up. I am someone who lives by routines and I have worked over the last year to tune my 2.5 hour commute to/from San Francisco. I know how long traveling takes, I fill...
I especially like Phizr ;-)(New) Web 2.0 Logos, originally uploaded by shopping2null.
Wow, thanks to everyone who supported the Lance Armstrong Foundation recently!Friends and family donated $325 for my upcoming century rideAbout 10 people registered for Adaptive Path events, so we'...
This was bike-to-work week and it shaped up pretty well from my view.On California's* bike-to-work day I rode the 10 miles to the BART station and back. I was on the fence up to the last minute sin...
I noticed a few weeks back that Google Street View expanded it's reach into San Ramon. At launch coverage ended in Castro Valley, about 1/2 way along Crow Canyon Road. Now, Street View extends thro...
Dan Saffer, Rachel Glaves and Andrew Crow started an online meme. All it took was a large number of followers on Twitter, a good and persistence.Andrew describes it well:It started with Dan mistypi...
Bicycling Magazine released their top cities for cycling for 2008. This year, two Bay Area cities were on the list. San Francisco made the "Still Greatest" category and San Jose came in as a "Runne...
I used to be a gamer. My introduction to computers was through gaming. My desire to learn about how computers worked was driven by new hardware required for games. My first computer program was a g...
In January I set goals for my riding in 2008: 52 individual rides 1,500 miles 3 organized rides It's May and a good time to check in and see how am I progressing. I've been tracking my rides v...
Xian sent this cycling-specific comic strip my way:Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery
Chris directed me to this. When the Google Street View car was traveling through Cleveland the camera caught something interesting. A cyclist falls off his bike. Here's how you can see it in actio...
Today it was announced by Yahoo! that they are going to, as Christian twittered, add a social dimension into their exiting platform.This is the big project that he's been working on for the last fe...
Today I completed the Primavera metric century. That's 100 kilometers on a bike, about 65 miles. My bike computer clocked in at 63.59 miles to be accurate. The ride was great, much better than e...
Maggie Mason published the "leftovers" from her photo shoot at the Adaptive Path office.I work with some funny good lookin' people.
Yeah, me too.....A review of last week's Bret Michaels concert in Salinas, CA comes from an unexpected place: Swobo. That's right, the bike lifestyle blog "How to Avoid the Bummer Life" was comped ...
In reading the recent post "Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software Engineer" I felt that there was a missing 11th trait. The RWW list is a pretty comprehensive list of the buzz in programming circles...
Congrats once again to Chris and the Google Maps team for their launch of Transit for Chicago! The launch was picked up by a few local and national news sources."Google Transit may well become the ...
Just a terrific quote from brother Khoi: What is the profile of the "new designer"? The new designer is adaptable across multiple media and multiple disciplines. She can design in a way that's tr...
According to Fortune magazine, Danville is one of the country's best places to live and launch a small business. Ranked #69 based on it's high percentage of "wealthy and well-educated people" and i...
Anyone who designs and/or develops software should check out this video. Yes, it's long at just over 1 hour, but it's worth it. Cabel Maxfield Sasser is a co-founder of Panic. In this presentation ...
Jeff Atwood just took me back to 1991. That was the year that The Sierra Networks (TSN) went live. This was a pioneer in online gaming, leveraging several of the characters from the Sierra Online f...
I found out today that REM's new album will be released on April 1. It can be pre-ordered on iTunes right now, but I've become a fan of the DRM free tracks sold on Amazon. Upon searching for the ne...
Today, I pulled the trigger on a Trek Madone 5.1, an early birthday gift for myself. It's been over 7 years since I bought my last bike, also a Trek. I headed out to Livermore Cyclery to pick it up...
The media is keeping on the "stay off the roads or you'll die" trend for cyclists. This started a week ago after three roadies were struck by a car, two fatally, in San Jose. Yesterday, The Chronic...
Dick Burke, the founder and chairman of Trek Bikes died last Monday at age 73. In 1976, with $100,000 in seed money ... and a hunch that a high-quality American-made frame could fill the gap betwee...
I've been thinking a lot recently about the size of things. In doing so, I've decided that in many cases, smaller is better. Community I live in a small-ish town. No, I don't live in one of those ...
I am sitting at the tail end of a SXSW panel tackling the question "Does A/B testing kill design?". Throughout the session I am constantly reminded of yesterday's panel on "Does Analytics kill desi...
Check out this concept bike. It starts out full sized, looks pretty dope in its bike shape and folds up to fit into a backpack. Watch the creator introduce the functionality, including integrated h...
I recently wrote a post on the Adaptive Path blog positing that calling native mobile apps dead is premature. This is the stance taken by a former Palm VP who claims that web apps are taking over. ...
Tonya just finished an Public Service Announcement for Project Blue. The video is an entry to the Surfrider Foundation's contest where the winner gets a trip to Costa Rica. I hope she wins, this is...
I was directed today towards the petition for a "bike there" feature on Google Maps. One of the Cal Poly Wheelmen directed me there. What an awesome Google already supports driving directions and, ...
There's still space available for Adaptive Path's MX San Francisco event, taking place April 20-22. This year's event focuses on the of creative leadership as an emerging discipline. This is our ...
My colleague Dan Saffer pointed out the "Stuff White People Like" blog. It's freaking awesome, especially the post about bicycles. A good place to find white people on a Saturday is at a Bike Shop....
This week Californians see the best of professional cycling in their own backyard. The Tour of California will take racers from the Bay Area to So-Cal over a 650 mile route. Yesterday I watched the...
I have terrible cellular coverage in my neighborhood. The city continues to block the installation of adequate cell towers even though nearby communities like Alamo have installed ones that REALLY ...
The city of San Ramon, where I live, is starting the annexation process of the Tassajara Valley. Just to the east of the city's current border, this area is primarily undeveloped, spotted with just...
For v-day this year I bought Tracy two chocolate Mii avatars in a Wii shaped box. Chad directed me towards this gift and although my wife is not any sort of a gamer, she did fall in love with the...
Swobo posted a user-submitted list of crazy things carried around by bike messengers. It's a freaking hilarious list. Apparently most couriers haul body parts at some part in their career. I am now...
I just signed up for a Flickr pro account at the cost of $25 for one year. That's $2 per month that Yahoo! can use to defend itself from Microsoft acquisition and Google partnership. Jerry, go ma...
Are you looking for a complete computer package including: Dell desktopLCD monitorMicrosoft Wireless Keyboard & Mouse6-color photo printerNetgear WiFi routerIf so, then buy it from me! I'll giv...
Really, what more is there to say about the potential acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft? It's been written about everywhere from the NYT to the Asshat (Scoble) to the TechCrunch to the Guardian. I...
Submit your film now for the Bicycle Film Festival 2008. Submission deadline is February 19th. Download an entry form at the BFF site. We are accepting entries for films with a strong theme or char...
Last month a twitter stats script was released by Damon Cortesi. The small script connects to twitter and downloads all of your tweets for statistical analysis. Now that I've upgraded to the latest...
Congratulations to the Menlo Park team that took home First prize in the Specialized "Innovate or Die" competition. Inventors Adam Mack, Brian Mason, John Lai, Paul Silberschatz and Eleanor Morgan ...
A recent convert to the Mac, I quickly searched for the equivalent of Trillian and landed on Adium for IM. It's solid software that does just what I need - connect to YIM, MSN, AIM and Jabber. I'v...
Scott Burken recently wrote on the topic of "personas" for his audience. He gauges the value of his content against the perspective of four imaginary people:The curious neophyte. If someone at rand...
I took this photo while wine tasting in Sonoma last weekend. It was taken at the Teldeschi winery. Um, it's pretty damn clear that they don't care about customer service. Not only is the phone elev...
My cousin emailed soliciting votes for his daughter. He submitted her photo to Jones Soda in hopes of seeing her on a bottle or two of the sweet cane sugar drink. Vote for Izzy! I followed C...
I use Yahoo! Mail every day. Scratch that, I use it every hour... really, at least every 10 minutes. In contrast, I haven't used My Yahoo! in over a year. I think that the major reason I don't use ...
Last week on the official Google Blog, one of the contributors wrote about Public transit made easy. In hopes to draw more transit agencies onto the platform, the author promotes Google's textual d...
by [Zakkaliciousness]After reading Chris Carmichael's post about setting cycling goals, I started thinking about what I wanted to accomplish this year. First, I reflected on my riding for 2007. ...
I took this photo today at Teldeschi winery in Sonoma. The winemaker is named Dan and they were handing out "I'm a Dan Fan" stickers. Tracy was kind enough to wear two of them ;)
There's has been so much talk over the last few years about globalization and it's impact on the world economy. We read about how companies are finding cost savings and new markets by utilizing cou...
I'm not alone. I'm not the only geek who likes fonts.Yesterday, Jeff Atwood on his terrific Coding Horror blog, wrote about his love affair with typography:You do have to be something of a font gee...
In 1998 I graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. I spent 5 years working on a BA in Graphic Communication (GrC). This degree is one of only a few in the country that focuses solely on the printi...
Adaptive Path has a tradition of putting personal and professional resolutions into a combined essay for the public. I contributed mine and in the interest of keeping myself honest, I wanted to re-...
If a new startup is successful, then it will be able to do what companies the size of Google have not. They will bring free WiFi to San Francisco. Meraki Networks is hoping to cover the city with f...
Webware tells us that 511.org, the local traffic and transit site "melted" during the recent storms. The story was triggered by the voicemail rant of a commuter frustrated by the outage of 511's in...
Today, Twitter gave me a ride home. On November 2nd I was sitting next to a guy on the BART train during my morning commute. Glancing at his PC I noticed that he was crafting a blog post via the ic...
I requested an invitation to Hulu a month back and just got around to taking the site for a test drive. Hulu is NBC's answer to video distribution of their content online. They joined up with New C...
I heard about a new social networking site focused around cyclists that's named "bicipeople". Since I kicked around the of building such as site at one point, I raced over an signed up. It's not ha...
I previously wrote about how my Mother-in-law was getting her first ever experience with computers. We are giving her a hand-me-down laptop, a new printer and DSL service with WiFi for Christmas 20...
I am so torn over my mobile device. I have been using an AT&T 8525 running Windows Mobile for the last year and overall, I love it. At the same time, there are some limitations and the iPhone...
Yesterday I heard a quote from Garrison Keillor:"Somewhat luck lies in not getting what you wanted this Christmas season, but what you already have which is what you needed all along if you'd only ...
Have you "Got Satisfaction" yet? You probably have, this is not news; between you and me I am just clearing out some of my stagnant blog Satisfaction is "people powered customer service". The ser...
I've been a fan of Timbuk2 messenger bags for over 10 years. I was turned onto the brand my freshman year at Cal Poly by Guy. The bag I use every day to cart around my laptop is the same bag I boug...
I just signed up for eMusic after being tempted by an offer of 25 free songs and 1 free audiobook on Bart. I'm browsing through their catalog of tunes and noticed just how well they used numerous f...
Christian tagged me with a meme. I am to publish a post containing the first word of the first post of each month for the year. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I actually had enough posts. ...
I've noticed this a few times when traveling United in the past and was reminded again this morning when checking in for my afternoon flight. On the boarding pass screen, there's a strange interact...
The seventh annual Bicycle Film Festival just rolled into Tokyo. A message from the festival's director points out some of this year's stats. It's great to see that this event is so successful.We h...
The Core77 Design Blog ran two posts today about bike theft. The first was a quick review of Biomega's ride sold under the Puma brand. I've seen this the San Francisco Puma store and didn't even re...
Guy recently attended the 2007 Video Game Awards in Las Vegas. The show was put on by Spike TV and hosted by none other than Sam "Snakes on a Plane" Jackson. Guy appears on the show, next to a scan...
Khoi Vinh tells us about how bike riders in Paris have found a "hack" for their popular rental service. If there's something wrong with the ride, then the seat is turned around backwards as a sign...
I wanted to quickly write about two interesting interactions I noted over the last week. Nothing too crazy, but they both caught my eye.First, I was playing with the new Flickr Places feature. I se...
My favorite feature of Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) is Spaces. On Tiger, I had developed the habit of "hiding" an application before switching to a new one. This helped to reduce interface clutter. On the...
I bought one of the new aluminum Apple keyboards a couple weeks back for my home office. It's a very slick keyboard that feels like a large laptop keyboard. I like the limited key travel, the dedic...
Chris alerted me today that Google Transit is no longer a lab project, it has today become a full-fledged feature of Google Maps. Congratulations!!!! It was also announced that the Santa Clara VTA ...
Today, I launched Yahoo! Mail and found that my account has finally been moved onto the new version announced a few weeks back. One feature, that appears to be brand new, is Yahoo! Mail Shortcuts. ...
Ask a NinjaBuzz Out LoudDiggnationEast Meet WestFLOSS WeeklyThe FredCastMacBreak WeeklyWait Wait Don't Tell MeSModcastSpeaking of BeerStartup StudioThis American LifeThis Week in TechTiki Bar TVVel...
I know that the meme of "too many social networks" is getting played out, sorry to add to the chatter. Today I received an email from my Alma Mater touting their new alumni networking site, dubbed ...
+ Holy crap. I'm looking forward to offline Yahoo! Mail coming soon. This is a VERY promising merger and I am really excited about the potential.
I noticed today that the Tour of Missouri bike race is using the same Tour Tracker app that was developed for this year's Tour of California. The app (probably built by Adobe) uses flash to mashup ...
Over at Problogger, the author of Lifehacker and a VP from Feedburner were posed the question "Full feeds or partial feeds". As a heavy blog reader, I come down squarely on the side of full feeds. ...
As noted over on Khoi Vinh's blog Subtraction, the basic credit web form has been improved. The great news is that PayPal did it. Why is the PayPal connection important? Because others will soon fo...
On August 27th Yahoo! announced BIG news. It was HUGE. I mean, REALLY, REALLY BIG news. Y! Mail was finally out of beta and ready for the general public!Normally, I would be thrilled about this. I ...
My mother-in-law (Joan) is getting her first computer this Christmas. She's in her early sixties and has never been exposed to technology. It's not because she lives in the mountains or anything li...
I am attending the Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose today and tomorrow. After watching the opening panel and checking out the attendees, this is definitely a developer focused event. We'r...
I was just alerted by someone who appears to work for the Thousand Oaks, CA transit authority that they've been added to Google Transit. Those guys are on a roll!!
Woo Hoo! I found out over the weekend that my home turf is finally available via Google Transit. This is awesome news and a huge win for the team... congrats!! I know that it's been disappointing ...
The MX East conference will blaze a trail this October 21 – 23 into the new frontier of innovation and design management. MX East takes a strategic look at the business value of design, and how des...
Vote for my South-By-Southwest panel! Agile User Experience -- Bigger! Better! Faster! More! Agile development likes to move fast. Sometimes design and IA seem to move s-o s-l-o-w. With experts f...
The Google Transit team has been busy. In the last month they have added some new locations. I am especially interested in the Las Vegas monorail since my college friends are heading to...
For some reason my feed for Swobo's "How to Avoid the Bummer Life" was messed up and just yesterday two weeks worth of posts came through. This article caught my attention as I am a Cal Poly ...
Monday's edition of Buzz Out Loud by CNET featured Google Transit. Apparently Boing Boing wrote up the site and CNET covered that. There no new updates or news, so I am unsure why both ...
Wow, did I underestimate the difficulty of Saturday's ride. I really found the limits of my fitness, much more than I have in the past. I left my front door with my local riding partner...
While working for Extractable I collected a series of interesting cartoons and such on my office door. It was always a topic of conversation when something new would appear. One of the ...
This morning I purchased a new BART train ticket. I average one ticket per 7 days since I buy high value tix, so its possible that this is old news. It appears that the BART and Oakland A's partn...
I am attending this year's UX Week conference presented by Adaptive Path. This is easily our best UX Week ever. If you don't believe me, just look at the program. For keynoters, we have Deborah A...
Tonya will be heading to Russia soon. Apparently there is a Sierra game development studio in that country and she will visit with them to create a behind-the-scenes video. What's Russia known befo...
In keeping with this week's theme of Tonya-specific posts, I bring you a game trailer. See, Tonya makes these for a living. She's a video editor for Sierra. Check out some of her work for titles...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus&v3 300 200] Girls like unicorns, right? And I know that girls like pink. Following in my week of Tonya themed posts, here's a bunch of lin...
OK, I know that I said that I wouldn't write about bikes, but in brainstorming for this week's posts, Tracy recommended a sports bra review. Tonya and I rode 65 miles last year to raise money for ...
For a couple weeks I have been hearing from Guy that his girlfriend Tonya likes following my blog and Twitter feed but thinks that it is a little bit too geeky and technology focused. As a respons...
Posted by mobile phone:I am writing this on an iPhone in the Walnut Creek Apple store. My blog has a plugin that displys a mobile interface on phones. I found that opera mobile was detected as a d...
I juts updated to the 3.01 version of this blog.txt theme. I couldn't find a complete change list, but it's supposed to be more compliant with WP version 2.2 and higher. I need to upgrade to Word...
I'm halfway through my third week in a new job. I'll write more about that in the next post. The new place is primarily a web design shop and everyone here uses a Macintosh notebook. Not one t...
Xian added Suicide Food on his daily link list. This site is wicked funny. It's probably not supposed to be funny, but a blog dedicated to meat product logos just makes me laugh. p.s. Apologies ...
Jesse James Garrett, President and Founder of Adaptive Path, wrote a great article for Business Week. The article outlines the challenge faced by a design agency to help Kensington re-invent it's ...
Posted by mobile phone: Tracy and Nicole were having a good time with Mark. He had the critical combo of good looks and free wine. He convinced Tracy to get a tattoo. Update: Here's a photo of th...
Last weekend, Chris and Sara came over for an early birthday celebration for Hanna. Today, May 15th, she turns two!! Chris and I got talking about tech and the new transit icons that have been in...
Posted by mobile phone:Thanks Swobo for telling me about this.http://www.driveyourbike.org/
On Monday I updated the firmware on my phone. I have a Cingular/AT&T 8525, built by HTC, one of Extractable's clients. The firmware adds a couple apps, but it mostly seems to just push the ne...
I was never a member of the Cal Poly wheelmen, but I should have been. I just wasn't that big into cycling back then. Well, I am now following the club/team via their Yahoo! Group mailings. I...
Yesterday, eBay launched a new service calld eBay To Go. The online auction giant jumped onto the bandwagon of offering their content to bloggers in an easy-to-consume manner. Every social networ...
On by bike ride yesterday I composed this post. I was thinking about the steps I went through to determine where to ride. This story starts during a discussion with my Dad about recent bike rides...
I just clicked on an advertisement and watch the trailer for "The Flying Scotsman". I'm a bike geek, so I'll definately see this.
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Posted by mobile phone: Today MobileCrunch announced version 1.2 of the WordPress Mobile plugin. I was just talking with Todd about my desire for a mobile interface for this blog, so the timing is ...
I wrote back in December about how I liked the Y! Mail feed reader. Funny thing about that.... I never use it. Even though I bothered to write a review, I don't think I've used that feature more ...
I created a twitter account about 5 weeks ago. I used it for about 4 days and got bored. Then twitter blows up at SXSW so I feel compelled to sign up again... luckily my usernamewas still availab...
So Damn funny.... this was fowarded to me by Tonya. The Landlord, on Funny or Die (I changed from an embed to a permalink offsite since it would only autostart and that's super-annoying)
Now you too can create a map mashup.... sort of. Visit the main Google Maps site and you'll see a new tab labeled "My Maps". You can add some points, lines and polygons to build your own custom m...
I was reading the Y! Mail updates blog today and it apears that a bunch of enhancements are out. Too bad I don't see them :-( . I seem to be on web farm 503, based on the "f503" in my URL and I h...
Today Yahoo! released their API for mail. Developers can now write apps that read, search and write mail messages to/from the Yahoo! Mail service. I'm a big fan of Y! Mail (though I wish that the...
Google just released support for KML overlays via their API. Google Maps has supported the overlay of KMLfor a while, but I have been waiting for API support since Fall of last year. I am using t...
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