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Motorcycle course, part 1: preparation
Last weekend I took and passed the Ottawa Safety Council’s Gearing Up motorcycle course. I had meant to post an entry on Saturday night and an entry on Sunday night but I was too tired to think, so you get the whole thing in review instead. Wednesday night was the safety lecture and equipment inspection. […]
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Photos of online photo stores
I usually wouldn’t post something here that’s already made it as far as BoingBoing, but this is seriously amusing. If you’ve ever shopped for a digital camera online, you’ve probably noticed that there are an awful lot of reasonably-large photography websites for stores based in Brooklyn. A Brooklyn resident who participates in rec.photo.digital has taken […]
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trace! can you dig it?
How did I make it ten years without knowing about dig‘s +trace option? :) fishsticks$ dig +trace www.livejournal.com ; DiG 9.2.5 +trace www.livejournal.com ;; global options: printcmd . 7869 IN NS a.root-servers.net. . 7869 IN NS b.root-servers.net. . 7869 IN NS c.root-servers.net. . 7869 IN NS d.root-servers.net. . 7869 IN NS e.root-servers.net. . 7869 IN […]
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js/uix
JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). Seriously wrong. Be sure to try vi. [via Simon Cozens]
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Now this kicks ass.
I just got a call from the Ottawa Safety Council, and they had a cancellation for this weekend’s motorcycle course, so I get to do mine this weekend instead of the end of June. Of course, that means I’ll be riding on an M1 for a month longer than planned, but it will also mean […]
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Motorcycle license!
I got my M1 license on Friday! The M1 license is the first step toward the M (Motorcycle) license in Ontario’s graduated licensing system. It lets you ride a motorcycle unaccompanied, without a passenger, during daylight hours, on roads with a speed limit of 80 km/h or less, with zero blood alcohol. It’s a short […]
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Potential ride
I might have found a bike — an ’89 Suzuki GS500E, with 35k km, new tires, new chain and sprocket, red, for $2200. That’s a bit higher than I was thinking of buying (I’d planned to top out around $1800), but it’s also five to eight years newer than I thought I’d end up with, […]
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Photoshop fun!
not-actually-riding, originally uploaded by mendel. I had to do it. :-) (No, I don’t have a bike yet, but I have Photoshop, Google Images, and a chair!)