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Looks like I won’t be returning to Mexico for a 50-miler anytime soon. Someone came into our building, cut the lock and made off with my bike. The worst part is I just spent a few hundred dollars on upgrades.

I’ve created a best of Maui photo gallery from my 2004 trip to Maui.

Maui - Best of

My photo gallery provider SmugMug just did a massive upgrade. They’ve designed the site to load photos much faster using client-side javascript calls. Without being too technical, they are only redrawing the portion of the screen you want updated, not the entire page. For media rich sites this equates to rocking fast page draws.
I encourage [...]

Since I left my last job on May 5th 2006, I haven’t heard from anyone in the company. However, I have noticed that the stock tanked shortly after I quit. The red dot on the chart below is the day I left.

Too bad I didn’t think to short the stock.

Four years ago I wrote this:
Regular readers already know I drive a car that gets 49 MPG. Last month I went all out to lower my gas and electric consumption. To lower the house gas use, I used 2 programmable thermostats to only heat the house during a few key hours in the morning and [...]

January is a great time in San Diego to head out east to the desert. Today we went out to the south portion of Anza-Borrego and hiked Canyon Sin Nombre. This hike has a killer slot canyon that at one point becomes quite difficult to wiggle your way through. If you got a [...]

On Monday we decided to give our cat Rainman back to his original owner. We adopted Rainman in 2001 when he was 9 nine years old. His first nine years were spent as an outdoor cat in Jamul, CA.
For three weeks we dealt with health problems, vet trips and eventually behavior problems. The health problems [...]

Someone tinkered with one of the tables. The damage was very limited and I was able to restore everything and tighten up security in the process. For a more technical analysis head over to Digital Colony.

The photo gallery from my 2004 skiing trip to Mammoth Lake has been remastered. During this trip to Mammoth we went snowshoeing, cross country skiing, regular skiing and snowboarding. All were first time events for me. I enjoyed regular skiing and snowshoeing the best. Snowboarding was a disaster.

Mammoth Lake 2004

I just realized I didn’t post (brag) about all the books I read since August 2nd. While in South America I was on a reading tear. It seems I like to wake up a good hour or two before most twenty-year olds. And I’ve got the skill to read a book on a bouncy [...]