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Archive for February, 2009
New Commuting Setup
This winter I spent some effort getting a more comfortable commuting setup for riding my bike to work. Since I no longer have a scooter, my only other viable method for getting to work is to drive our van and I’m really not that keen to do that. It chews up a fair bit of gas and money, and more importantly I would like to reduce my personal pollution as much as possible.
I had decided a bit before Christmas that I was ready to bike to work again. My leg and overall fitness were doing well, and I was finally comfortable enough with my shoulder to ride my bike on the streets. However, I didn’t want to wear a backpack and I was tired of being cold and wet on soggy winter commutes. I decided to switch to pannier system for the commute and get a decent gortex cycling jacket since I needed a new outdoors waterproof jacket anyways. As well, my accident chewed up my rainproof pants so I opted to get some waterproof/breathable cycling pants. I asked Santa (my wife) for some new panniers for xmas. I’ve always had panniers from MEC Read the rest of this entry »
Social Networking Conjunction
The last couple of years has seen a huge number of social networking websites pop up on the internet. Some of the more popular ones include Facebook, Delicious, Twitter, and Flickr. A common theme in several of these sites is that they display a “status” of each member. Sites such as Twitter are built around this concept, where a person posts frequent answers to the question, “what are you doing now?” One puzzle that I had fun working on in the past couple of weeks is how to streamline and update several social networking sites with my “status.”
My journey down this path started when I first wanted to add a quick blurb at the top of my blog called “My 411.” I realized that this 411 was essentially the same as the “status” setting on my Facebook profile. Before solving the status issue, I first found Read the rest of this entry »
Kids Hike 6.6km, Dad says “Wow.”
I took the kids hiking on the North Shore yesterday. As part of my plans to get them into hiking and backpacking, I had both of them carry daypacks and I carried my pack with a stove and hot chocolate ready for brewing.
We drove to the top of Londsdale and over to St. Mary street for the start of the hike. Initially I thought we would do 1 or 2km. We started off along a trail that would take us to the Baden-Powell. The kids were kicking it and I hardly had to slow my pace down. Eventually we met up with the BP. I put down some plastic to sit on, got out the stove, and started heating some water. The kids climbed up another path that looked like a mtb downhill trail. After some hot chocolate, Grady wanted to do some more hiking before heading back so we headed east for bit. After another 15min I got us turned around. Instead of following our original tracks, we headed further west. The plan was to check out a viewpoint that is near another trail that would take us back to our starting point. Some other hikers said the viewpoint was about 5min away, which I assumed would take us maybe 10 or 15min.
The viewpoint turned out to be more like 30min. There was some snow which made the going a bit slow Read the rest of this entry »
Another New Look For dryfly.ca
I’ve finished up a new theme for dryfly.ca, one that integrates with smugmug. I’m tying out smugmug for an online photo gallery. I’m tired of running my own gallery with all of its quirks and troubles.
