Road biking is pretty popular up here and one of the cool things that the city/county does is to close off La Canada Road every Sunday for bikers. Even though the road is paved, it would be a good way for us to get some good miles in. We decided to check it out.
We ended [...]

Posted by Roger at 5:06 PM.

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Latte received a new toy today. It’s a rubber cube that has some slots in which you can smear peanut butter (or some other food that will stir the olfactory senses). The dog can sniff the food, but has a hard time getting to it. So the idea is that the dog’s owner gets some [...]

Posted by Roger at 6:52 PM.

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Today, we rode the Gazos Creek trail at Big Basin State Park. According to our book, you can ride it as a 12.9-mile round trip loop with an optional 8.8-mile out-and-back for a total of 21.7 miles. Our plan was to see how we felt when we got to the out-and-back trail and then decide [...]

Posted by Roger at 7:43 AM.

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For a really cool example of the latest web technologies in action, check out this page (I know it works on Firefox. I don’t know about IE). You can drag and drop many of the elements on this page. Remember, you’re doing all of this through a web browser!
Another cool example is here. This guy [...]

Posted by Roger at 3:18 PM.

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Apple confirmed the rumors today and announced that they will be switching from the PowerPC processors made by IBM and Motorola to the Intel processors that power nearly all Windows PCs. Many people thought that this day would never happen. My thoughts? It’s about time!
There’s plenty of articles and opinions across the net about this [...]

Posted by Roger at 8:52 PM.

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Our goal is to ride at least once a week, and since we didnt’ have a whole lot of time this weekend, we decided to check out one of the local trails. Water Dog Lake Park is a wooded area near our house that’s close enough that we could ride to. Our book gave only [...]

Posted by Roger at 7:17 PM.

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My iMac arrived today! How exciting! Being the Mac geek that I am, I documented the unveiling process. It’s like opening a Christmas present. I can’t really explain it, but there’s just something special about getting a new Mac, opening the box, taking it out and setting everything up. PC users are unlikely to understand, [...]

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A few weeks ago, Judy finally decided that it was time to quit her job. She gave her company a very generous two months notice to give them ample time to find a replacement and to get that person up to speed. Her last day will be July 15, and she wants to take the [...]

Posted by Roger at 6:40 PM.

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