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Cycling: Transit for Women with Groceries
There has been much debate in America over the years on how to integrate bicycling into urban transit. There is debate among cyclists about the value of multi-use-paths (MUPs). This article seems to draw the current trend, to design cycle oriented transit towards a typical user being a sixty year old woman with groceries. http://www.humantransit.org/2010/04/can-we-all-cycle-the-last-mile.html…
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Cycling Power in Watts
If you had to generate electricity with a bicycle, how many light bulbs can you power? Well, consider that an average bicycle on level ground in still air needs 100 Watts of power to cycle at 12mph. If you wanted to add an electrical generator to your normal cycle, the effect would be like going…
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Transition Whatcom Saturday, Quick Insights
We the family went to the Transition Whatcom event at Bellingham High and it was pretty neat. The high school had bicycles locked up against every tree and every light post, plus a field in the front courtyard with scrap-built wooden bicycle stands! Inside the door was an electric bicycle dealer booth, followed by a…
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Love Visual Studio, Crashes!
Moving the Call Stack window while debugging was crashing VS2009. Luckily, there was a KB article about it.
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What Prizes Will LinuxFest Northwest 2010 Behold?
I enjoyed taking Liam to LinuxFest Northwest 2009. I won i Core i7 system at the raffle there! I don’t expect to win such a thing again. I thought I’d just post a screenshot, because Compiz is just so cool. It runs BOINC pretty well: top – 21:07:17 up 2 days, 9:08, 2 users, load…
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Checking the Ends of Files
Bash command displays the end of files written recently: find -type f -mtime -1 | xargs ls -tra | tail | xargs tail
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What Every C# Dev Needs to Know About Dates
There’s a big difference in what a M, MM, MMM, and MMMM mean in a date format. Also, you can say: String.Format( “{0:yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss}”, DateTime.Now ) to convert a .Net date into a MySQL format date, without needing to pass a format string to the DateTime.ToString() method.
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Search Highlighting in VS 2008
I found a way to highlight search results in Visual Studio 2008, using the RockScroll add-in. I still miss the Highlighter plugin in jEdit, tho.
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