Category: Random
2012 Tour de France Prologue – Cancellara is back and Wiggins is Strong
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Coming in 2nd, just 7 seconds behind an unbeatable Cancellara, Wiggins has shown that he is still on form and deserving of his moniker as the favourite for the Tour win. Out of the rest of the GC contenders Evans is the next best at 17 seconds down, followed closely by Hesjedal at 18 seconds…
Thoughts on the Tuts+ Breach – Be Your Own Security
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After reading about the Tuts+ security breach I got wondering. How many of the real angry people were actually using proper password security? Yes as detailed in their post, they stored passwords in clear text. Yes that’s a beginner stupid move. Yes the plugin they were using had an update that fixed the cleartext passwords,…
Do We Support Older Browsers?
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I’m sure that most of you have heard about Kogan charging IE7 users extra ‘tax’, to support that old browser. My friend Eric wrote a good post on this. This stuck out to me (and made me laugh out loud). I’m in the business of building applications, not supporting someone’s fetish for being stuck in…
Why Microsoft Word is not a Tool for Me
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This article got me thinking again about my workflow. I don’t use Microsoft Word at all. I’m not sure I’ve ever even purchased a copy of it. I only use Pages (AppStore) for client proposals and contract since I want them to look really nice and they are presented via PDF. For most people now,…
Beginning Cyclist Training – Training to Train
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If I could do one thing when I meet a new cyclist, it would be to impress upon them the need to rest when training. In fact a new cyclist needs to rest much more than an experienced cyclist. Their body has not even learned how to train yet. Your first year (maybe 2) of…
Adobe Takes Mobile Testing Forward with Adobe Shadow
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Like many web devs, I work locally. That means all of my current projects are running on my laptop with MAMP (MAMP Pro for me) and I can work on them even if I’m offline. I also domain map, which means the location of this site on my laptop is dev.curtismchale.curtisdev.ca and my laptop just…
Peter Sagan vs Mark Cavendish – Finally a Sprint Competition
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Typically I’m not much in to the sprint stages in the [Tour de France][tdf] races, actually in any race. They follow a predictable path. 1. There is a breakaway 2. It’s caught in the last few km leaving everyone to wonder why it even happened 3. Sprint to the finish and [Cavendish][cav] takes it At…
Back Up and Legal Stupidity
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I’ve gone over my back up solution before. If you’re not backing up in 3 spots with one offsite, then you’re simply doing it wrong. Seems there is a lawyer in my country of Canada who was doing it wrong and now wants Apple to pay for his stupidity. The short version of the article…
Bruyneel Tries to Fix the Horner Debacle
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So Johan Bruyneel [responded][res] to the whole Chris Horner misunderstanding. It seems that not everyone may have been quite truthful in what they knew about and did not know about in regards to the requirements laid out by the team to be included in the Tour de France. I don’t actually care where the truth…
Can RadioShack Nissan Trek Survive it’s Dissent?
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I’ve wondered how things were going with [Team RadioShack Nissan Trek][rns] (RNS) for a while now. Forget the lack of results for the team this year. Sure it’s disconcerting given the deep roster of athletes. The real issue seems to be in fighting and doing it publicly. First during the [Critérium Du Dauphiné][cdd] there were…