I love my iPhone, but it can really suck down battery juice with heavy use. Most of the time I’m close enough to a computer during the day for me to use a USB cable to keep the battery topped off. But I decided to get a few external batteries for those other times. The first [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
Setting up Yet Another Webcam
Well, not exactly. Remember my older post about installing a new webcam for the cabin backyard because the old webcam overheated, resulting in blurry optics? Today I found a use for the old webcam – placing it above the garage door to check for snow in the driveway and street. It’s pretty helpful to know in advance how [...]
Review of BikeBrain (Archived from 2001)
Bike Brain – for Palm handheld PDAs – product review (no longer available – review archived from 2001) I just received BikeBrain as a gift last week, and I thought I’d give some first impressions. BikeBrain is program that is run on a Palm-series handheld organizer that provides basic cyclocomputer functions and ride routing. It [...]
How I Blogged Bicycling Across the USA in 2001
(This page was originally written in 2001 to describe the setup I used on my cross-USA bicycle tour. The content on this page is now hopelessly out of date, but archived for historical interest. My modern day version of this setup is described in an another blog post.) When I travel, or go on multi-day [...]
Another Old Chess Game – Almost Made the LA Times!
Here’s another old chess game for your enjoyment! Following the “post-game recap”, a friend had given a copy of the scoresheet to Jack Peters (yes, that Jack Peters), and he annotated it for the weekly LA Times chess column! Unfortunately (for me), some major international tournament had just finished at the same time, and my [...]
Embed Chessboard Plugin for WordPress
I found the Embed Chessboard plugin for WordPress and figured that would be a good excuse to move a couple of my old chess games from my old HTML pages over to here on the blog. (For some reason I was originally having problems with version 1.0.6 which was released today, so I reverted to [...]
Alternative to Evite: Facebook or Socializr?
I recently had occasion to invite coworkers and other friends to an event, enough for me to want to use a site like Evite. But I’ve always been annoyed when receiving Evite invitations at work. That is not because the link in the message from Evite is blocked by my employer – I can’t blame [...]
2010 Tour of California – How I Did Guessing the Stage 6 Routing
In a previous post back in October, I speculated on the Stage 6 routing of the upcoming Tour of California. The route details were released today. So how did I do? From Pasadena to Wrightwood, I guessed that the route would go east along the foothills, then take Highway 39 to Highway 2. Instead, it [...]
The Cabin Webcam – Reloaded
In a previous blog entry from December 2008, I described how I made an outdoor enclosure for an indoor Panasonic webcam at my mountain cabin. Since the camera was rated for operation down to 40F and exposure down to 32F, I added insulation inside the enclosure to keep the camera warm. This worked well in [...]
Why You Haven’t Seen Gmails From Me – Solved!
Over the past few days I sent some emails that I thought would stimulate some discussion, but I heard no replies. OK, well people are busy, no problem. But then when I sent something from my iPhone today, I got some pretty quick responses. After checking with a couple of folks, it became clear that [...]