I’ve been looking for the right keyboard for a while, most recently reviewing the Microsoft Arc. The Arc was a decent keyboard but left my wrists a bit sore still and the keys on the outer edges were lacking.
My latest keyboard is the Kinesis Freestyle Solo for Mac.
tl;drI love it but if you
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Update May 15, 2012: About 2 weeks ago I blew through 2 more rear spokes on the non-drive side at the head (not the nipple near the rim). Mavic offered to take it back and rebuild it, then decided to simply ship out a new one. I was going to leave the update on this
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Normally I’m a voracious reader, to the tune of at least a book a week. I read everything from The Natural History of BC to Professional WordPress Plugin Development. I throw a bit of fiction in from time to time but really I normally try to make my reading learning focussed.
Recently I just was bored
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I recently published a review of RunKeeper during which I concluded that it really was mostly useless to me as far as tracking cycling performance.
GoodStrava’s big feature that set’s it apart from other offerings is their focus on climbing. Strava categorizes climbs on your route and will find out who is the King of
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If you’re training with any amount of seriousness you start tracking the distance, time, heart rate and anything else that you can. For a while now I’ve used RunKeeper to do all my tracking and workout comparison so let’s take a look. The Good RunKeeper starts off with a great design and lots of information. Want to
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UPDATE April 17, 2012: I’ve now done a 5000km review of the wheels. The short version is I repeat what I think below and highlight a problem.
While I haven’t blogged about each time I’ve broken a spoke, I’ve been through almost 10 spokes in the last year. Most of the spokes I’ve busted have been
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Today’s review of training log software looks at the offering from Bicycling Magazine. You can view the training log here.
GoodOne of the features that this training log provides is the ability to log workouts on different bikes. So you could have different mileage reports for your road bike and your time trial bike, or for
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If you follow me you’ll notice that I’ve been playing with Vim lately. For almost a year now I’ve been a TextMate fan but something about Vim just called to me. Maybe it was the feeling that knowing Vim increased my geek cred just like terminal hackery does.
Vim and TextMate sitting in a tree
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We’re now on the third code editor in our epic hunt for a great windows editor. If you’d like to catch up and see where we’ve been:
The Great Windows Code Editor Hunt: Part 1
Dreamweaver
Komodo Edit
Now it’s on to InType.
InType is still in Alpha and is similar to Textmate for OSX. In fact it’s
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Second up on my list of code editors to review is Komodo Edit. No we’re not talking about the paid IDE but the free version. The Good Komodo Edit is developed on the Mozilla platform which means it’s a cross-platform code editor just like Firefox is a cross-platform web browser. As I said when
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