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Entry #534 @ 2007-12-18 15:46:57 UTC
Long live blog.zentience.org.
I've wanted a more interactive kind of weblog for quite a while,
but I never found one that I liked or which I could make work like I
wanted. The closest I got was TextPattern,
which is excellent, but I just couldn't bring myself to trust
PHP.
So, I have to write my own software, which takes quite a bit of
time, but I can't see myself having that kind of time anytime
soon, so as a stopgap measure I've created blog.zentience.org at blogger.com for the next two years
or whatever.
This weblog is dead, essentially frozen, and will not be updated
ever again.
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Entry #533 @ 2007-10-16 10:55:57 UTC
I saw the Hawaii Ironman on the web. Well, at
least until the pro men were about one hour into the run. That
was just past 1 o'clock in the morning and I was too tired to
watch the rest, and Thorbjørn
Sindballe was no longer in the lead and I expected him to be
able to just hang on to a top 5 place. In the end he did even
better by coming in third!
It was great to see that Thorbjørn has finally figured out how to
beat the heat and run a sub-3 hour marathon. He's a big guy
(only 2–4 kg lighter than my old race weight, which is big for a
pro) and I can relate to those problems. He ran in all white;
short tights and the suddenly trendy almost knee-long compression
socks and a long sleeve Craft Pro Cool
shirt, which I know from personal experience works extremely well
(cooler than running
naked).
On to the really hot thing for me, apart from the race itself
which many other people has written about, the bikes:
Lots of new models this year, and I like the way they're
beginning to integrate the brakes in the aerodynamic design of
the frame by tucking the front brakes in behind the fork and
below the bottom bracket. It looks cool, and apparently reduce
drag significantly. Examples include Argon 18 E-114
and the Kuota Kueen
K, both really sweet bikes. The Cervélo P3C is
starting to look slightly outdated, although it might still be
the frame I would buy if I were in the market for a €3000
triathlon frame.
On the wheel side of things Zipp dominated as always, with
at least two pros riding the new 1080
rear wheels. As always disc wheels are banned at Ironman Hawaii
because of the often strong winds.
Thorbjørn Sindballe rode 808s last year, but this year
he's on the new FFWD wheels that I'm sure
are a little slower, but he's a pro and needs all the
sponsorship he can get. And he still managed averaging over 40
km/h
for 180 km…
And FFWD wheels are quite cheap, relatively speaking.
All in all it was an exciting race, but not that many ground
breaking technical news that surprised me, just a steady
evolution in the state of the art, which is really nice.
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Entry #532 @ 2007-09-18 22:51:51 UTC
I've tried to use cron(8) on
Mac OS X a few times without
succes. I did feel a little stupid too, cron(8) is
normally very easy to use.
But now I just discovered that crontab
-e doesn't work, saying—after having edited and
saved the file—that “crontab: temp file must be edited in place.”
And when you edit your user crontab(5)
directly cron(8) naturally doesn't pick up the
changes, and that is as it should be. This is what you have to do
instead:
$ crontab -l > ~/crontab
$ $EDITOR ~/crontab # Do your editing here, then save and quit.
$ crontab ~/crontab
I think that's stupid.
I've never used cron(8) like that, but I can see
that it's a supported method of operation on other systems
with a Vixie cron, I've just always used
crontab -e.
Why did Apple break the -e option for
crontab(1) like that? It seems completely pointless,
so I assume they did it by accident. I should probably file a bug
report, if it hasn't already been done.
Update: I filed a bugreport with Bug ID# 5489942.
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Entry #531 @ 2007-09-11 22:04:35 UTC
It is somewhat sad that that sane organizers seem to think
there's not enough interest in
SANE to warrant sticking to their bi-annual schedule.
That's too sad, because when I was there it
was a really great conference.
I just hope that they'll really be back in 2009 as they write
on their
websites frontpage.
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Entry #530 @ 2007-07-30 23:02:22 UTC
Gerard Vroomen, one of the two founders of Team CSC's bike
sponsor cervélo, sums it up in
“Where to start”, pretty much
hitting the nail on the head with every point. I totally agree.
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Entry #529 @ 2007-07-26 10:37:03 UTC
Ever wondered what it
would feel like to be doped like a 1998 pro cyclist?
It's easy to understand why professional cyclists would want
to use illegal performance enhancing drugs, especially in the
light of the above article, but impossible to understand why they
think they won't get caught eventually. They must be stupid.
And
Michael Rasmussen is fired wearing the yellow jersey in the
Tour for … a flippant attitude towards drug testing and lying it
seems. I think they were right in firing him, as Michael
Rasmussen at least
intended to use HBOCs in 2002, even
trying to trick a friend into smuggling it into Italy for him.
Not a very nice attitude, and the exact same crime—intending to
dope—that landed Ivan Basso a two year ban.
I believe in the new generation of riders exemplified by Linus Gerdemann and his
great stage victory in the alps, and I really hope that T-Mobile doesn't loose their
sponsor because of the Sinkewitz
case, as they're really onto something good, having
recruited a businessman
instead of an old cyclist as team manager. It makes a huge
difference in attitude.
Team
CSC are doing good things in their fight against doping too,
but they're greatly encumbered by Bjarne Riis.
In the mean time I can just be happy that I didn't return to
cycling from my 10-year hiatus from training, and instead choose
to go back to triathlon again. Not that triathlon is 100% clean,
of course, but it's not a sick sport like pro cycling.
Still, I'm incredibly pissed off whenever I'm out on a
training ride and some idiot shouts EPO!
at me.
And that has happened every now and then for the last 10 years
solely because of the mentally challenged doper culture rampant
in pro cycling. It must stop. Now.
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Entry #528 @ 2007-07-02 08:08:29 UTC
Cut'n paste from #mongers in my irssi
session:
Day changed to 30 Jun 2007
Day changed to 01 Jul 2007
Day changed to 02 Jul 2007
What a delightfully quiet week-end not just on IRC, but in general. Mette Marie and
Tobias has been in Holstebro since friday and until tomorrow, so
the only thing interrupting my sleep was a few texts from
Nagios
that I didn't have to take action on.
And yes, I'll try and write more often here.
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Entry #527 @ 2007-04-27 10:27:27 UTC
By way of
Gordon Byrn I found a very interesting
article in
The New York Times. It is basically the history of the
science of food and a look at the politics of the American
recommended diet. Because politics distort the science, and the
science is obviously incomplete. Read it.
Then read “The Paleo Diet”, and
if you're just a little athletic or just interested in
knowing more, read “
The Paleo Diet for Athletes”, they're sensible books
built on common sense and what seems to me to be good,
non-reductionist science, and can be boiled down to this: eat
lean meat, fruit and vegetables. Avoid legumes, starchy foods
(rice, pasta, potatoes), dairy and salt.
And if you're an athlete, starch and sugars are beneficial
just before, during and shortly after training and
racing.
That's the “how”, the “why” is somewhat more blurry.
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