Author: Curtis McHale

  • Hill and Headwinds – This Separates the Weak and the Strong

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    I remember heading out on my first group ride after getting a road bike. I was totally worried about getting dropped the group or about them talking behind my back when I left and saying how slow I am. The reality is that I held my own through most of the ride. The only thing

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  • Make Blogging Easy with MarsEdit

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    Let’s face it many of us plan to blog way more than we do, at the very least it applies to me and this blog (well me and all the blogs I have). The original plan was to have something out each Tuesday but life, stuff, StarCraft II, seem to get the way. Since I

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  • I love Vim and Textmate

    I love Vim and Textmate

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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. Why Vim Really anyone doing any type

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  • WordPress Stackexchange Question of the Week – October 3 – 9

    WordPress Stackexchange Question of the Week – October 3 – 9

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    Over on my blog I started highlighting a question a week from the stackexchange group. Now I figure why not do it for the WordPress Stackexchange group? This weeks question deals with creating a separator in the WordPress admin menu. Basically you have to write your own function to add the separator since WordPress doesn’t

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  • Great TextMate Tricks to Increase Productivity

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    Yeah I use Textmate everyday and it’s got lots of features. In fact it’s got so many that I discover new ones on a regular basis. Here are some of my favourites. Vertical Editing Ever wanted to edit a vertical line of code? Well TexMate lets you do that. Hold alt and drag your vertical

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  • Timing Your Intervals

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    Most of my riding is done early in the morning in the dark which means I can’t read my watch or see my cycling computer so watching my intervals is a bit of a challenge. I do also listen to music (yeah I know some people hate it) while riding though so my iPod is

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  • WordPress Multisite Domain Mapping with Media Temple

    WordPress Multisite Domain Mapping with Media Temple

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    While there are lots of tutorials out there that teach you how to setup domain mapping on your WordPress Multisite install there really aren’t any that deal with a particular issue (let’s call it ‘feature’) on Media Temples servers. It’s not really a bug and I’m sure some Unix guy out there can tell my

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  • WordPress Admin Bar – A Wicked WordPress Plugin

    WordPress Admin Bar – A Wicked WordPress Plugin

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    I just finished installing a WordPress Mutlisite system and mapping a bunch of domains so I could consolidate a few sites I keep up to date for friends/family that have businesses and needed a quick web presence. While the consolidation and mapping will save me a ton of time (don’t have to update every site

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  • The Week Ahead – Speed Training

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    So I just came off 3 weeks of working on hills. Really I need to get my overall fitness back to where I was when I raced (guess I never mentioned I race x-country MTB in my younger days). Right now I feel pretty dang slow, at least compared to where I want to be.

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  • Busted Spokes

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    Again today on my ride I ended up with a broken spoke. This is the 4th one in 2 months. All have been on the non-drive side of the rear wheel and all have broken at the nipple. Yeah you’re right that’s totally an odd spot for it to continually happen, but that’s where they

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