Monthly Archives: September 2007

So who DID win the 2006 Tour de France?

2007-09-27 – 21:37

I wrote a slightly longer post on this topic but lost it to a rare browser crash. It included nice links to the news story of Floyd Landis’ lost appeal to the USADA, as well as to news of all the doping sanctions, accusations, and outright rumors of cheating, poor handling of athlete samples, and […]

By frank | Posted in Cycling | Comments (0)

Newsflash: trashifarians (freegans) stealing food from the truly hungry

2007-09-27 – 18:52

Via Newsweek by way of getrichslowly.org a well-written, gentle criticism of the Trashifarian movement:
The freegans, most of whom are educated and capable of contributing to the economy, aren’t sharing the surplus wealth of the West with those who are destitute by circumstance rather than choice. They are competing with them for it.

The freegans’ Edenic […]

By frank | Posted in General | Comments (0)

Google 411

2007-09-26 – 06:55

Scott recently mentioned Google had a free mobile 411 service.
Yesterday I tried it out on a couple of local places. You can say “Map it” when you get the results, and they send you a text message containing the phone number, address, and a link to the location in Google Maps. This technique seems […]

By frank | Posted in Gadget, Geek | Comments (0)

iPhone agony

2007-09-07 – 19:15

The iPhone is very slick and the available features are intuitive and easy to use. It’s an awesome, Internet-enabled, media-playing monster monster of a modern telephone.
Unfortunately, features that aren’t readily apparent just aren’t there. For example, Google Maps recently gained the ability to adjust routes for its directions. Do you want to travel from […]

By frank | Posted in Gadget | Comments (1)

Martini

2007-09-07 – 18:52

I have a few extra minutes this evening since Andrea is working on another of Rachel Ray’s 30 Minute Meals.
My favorite cocktail is pretty simple - gin and tonic. I’ll try other things and certainly enjoy many of them, but it remains my steady favorite. Over the last few years, I’ve been slowly working […]

By frank | Posted in Food and Drink | Comments (0)