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…
Training for What????
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If you’re checking out this site you can see that I’m riding a fair bit and I’m not just riding, but scheduling different workouts. Certain weeks are intervals, other times I’m working on hills. Basically I’m following the periodization method of training. Honestly I have no idea what (if anything) I’m really training for. I…
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…
Cycling Question of the Week – October 3 – 9
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This week the question I was most intrigued by was about the pros and cons of building your own bike from scratch or buying your bike prebuilt. Below are a few of the pros and cons for building. See the full answer. Pros Get the exact components you want Choose where to compromise based on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…