For those of you who might be in SF, I'll be there from Sept 26 onward. Date of departure not yet established, but I'll be there at least two weeks. Give me a shout if you want to hang out.

I’ve been swimming at the Uptown Y to keep in shape while not biking. This morning the guy in the lane next to me introduced himself and started chatting. It turns out he’s running for US Senate. He’d just gone through a hectic Labor Day weekend, and had offered a fulltime job to his ostensible campaign manager who ended up turning him down because ( Read more... )

My bike was stolen. It was in an unlocked garage in Uptown Minneapolis. My friend's bike was there too, but I didn't notice it was locked to itself, and maybe the garage until after my bike was stolen ( Read more... )

Well, I'm biking around northern WI right now and writing about it at jforbess.org.

Jofish should take special note of the posting of 15 Aug, wherein I write: "Also, I am beginning to regret ever meeting Jofish. Well, ever hearing that damn song of his, “On the cover of Wired Magazine”. It’s the default song to get stuck in my head right now, and ( Read more... )

So one of the few reasons I wish I had a fixed address was so that I can subscribe to cool magazines like practicalpedal.com. More bike magazines need to be like it. Where else could you read about cool bikes like this dutch cargo bike instead of a comparison of carbon fiber racing forks ( Read more... )

So, jforbess.org has shuffled from one subhosting option to another, and the new one made me install wordpress without a shell, and then told me that it required a mysql version > 4.0.0. Which is quite an old version. And I can't figure out how to figure out what mysql version is actually being used. Which made me reconsider this subhosting option ( Read more... )

29 june 2007 (my laptop *and* my server died last week in totally unrelated events ( Read more... )

So I have a gap of over two months between weddings ( Read more... )

So for anyone who has stumbled across my livejournal page without also stumbling across my personal blog jforbess.org should go check it out. Chock full of entries about biking (and kayaking and sailing and ice-climbing) around NZ. (Ok, I only ice-climbed one day, but it was awesome.)

I'm about to head to Phnom Penh to meet up with eto_theipi for a month of ( Read more... )