I just posted a mountain bike ride report on a blog I created to record my outdoor adventures. If you like to read about me doing outdoor/adventure/fitness type things, then you should probably consider subscribing. I expect the post volume to increase, as my "training" volume has been. My Garmin records, which are incomplete, say I've logged ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting thought in passing: HTTP stacks in our kernels, for clients and for servers, with appropriate syscalls. If TCP is in there, why not HTTP? It's fast becoming a "baseline" protocol underneath applications.
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Dear Lazyweb,

I'm looking for an HTTP client library for ruby which handles HTTP caching fairly transparently. It should work basically like a browser, in that if I hit a URL, it should cache the results, and if I try to GET it again, it should do a conditional GET with If-None-Match or If-Modified-Since. Does such a beast exist? I really don't ( Read more... )

From their early 20s, many people go through a process I call lifestyle inflation. Flush with cash (and possibly credit) from their first jobs, they often buy nicer cars (maybe their first new car, and often on credit), jack up their rent or acquire a mortgage (thus extending expenses to include all sort of tools or paying others to do maintenance ( Read more... )

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I bought Cowen's Create Your Own Economy shortly after arriving in DC and have read about half of it. I'm enjoying it so far, but I think that's partly because I identify as someone with certain autistic cognitive and personality traits.
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I'm now starting my fourth Cory Doctorow book, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. This is a fairly blazing pace of fiction reading for me, and I'm beginning to think it's mostly down to how easy it is to read on the iPod Touch (I use Stanza), especially in bed. This is the absolute best laying down reading experience I've ever had, and ( Read more... )

I have to confess I've never really cared much for "challenging" movies and music. I don't mean mere intelligent stuff, but barely-narrative movies that "make you think", or assorted noise that is supposed to be "challenging to listen to" (not in the same way that G.G. Allin is).
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Weather today's pretty much amazing: wispy clouds hanging in a perfect blue sky, 57 degF, and alternating between still and a mild breeze. I walked about 5km on the beach to reach town and return, and was in short sleeves for most of it. Saw some great waves out here on the west coast and am now back at Birdsong with a bottle of local brews set ( Read more... )