Le Tour 2007

What a year, rocked by scandal, the tour in 2007 comes to a anti-climatic close?

Final results Alberto Contador takes home the white and the yellow, Levi Leiphimer gets a stage win and stands on the podium, and Team Discovery comes home in first place.

I really should spend this time to reflect on sportsmanship, the nature of competition, and what's going on with professional cycling...

Read an amateur's test with EPO, HGH and Steroids

Pearls Before Breakfast

So... the Washington Post published an article Pearls Before Breakfast.

And I finally understand what "good Journalisim" is all about.
I was reading a peice on CNN about the Post having difficulty remaining solvent as advertising revenue for print goes the way of the dodo. The interesting parts of the CNN article dealt with why losing the post (more specifically it's investigative division) would be a tragedy. They also aluded to (Pearls (PBB)) to demonstrate how presenting mixed media was possible on the web, and in some kind of bid for relevancy.

When I've picked up the times or the post I've enjoyed their writing, but I don't make time for a paper anymore (not that, frankly I ever did). however it would indeed be a tragedy if writing of this caliber were to no longer be made due soley to the invention of a new communications style.

Todo:
"Chaconne" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor.
"AVE MARIA"
Manuel Ponce's sentimental "Estrellita,"
Jules Massenet
Bach gavotte
"The Voice of the Violin,"

Ripped from the article:
The song that Calvin Myint was listening to was "Just Like Heaven," by the British rock band The Cure. It's a terrific song, actually. The meaning is a little opaque, and the Web is filled with earnest efforts to deconstruct it. Many are far-fetched, but some are right on point: It's about a tragic emotional disconnect. A man has found the woman of his dreams but can't express the depth of his feeling for her until she's gone. It's about failing to see the beauty of what's plainly in front of your eyes.

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
-- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies

Currency issues

The problem with DCIst is that Invariably I've already made plans by the time I find out about something interesting happening in the District.

Possible solutions:

1. Paralyze my schedule such that nothing is planned and everything becomes "spontaneous" (downside: yeah, that never works, I wind up watching too many re-runs of old movies).
2. find some way of shortening my planning horizion to 12 -24 hours (This doesn't work with Cycling with friends, or with biking into work, or any of a number of events that require more than 12 hours of planning).

The issue is (obviously) I'm missing information. Someone (perhaps the DCist) is telling folks about events ahead of time, and I'm just not seeing them.

enter RSS + filters?

Duff's Device

Duff's Device quite possibly the coolest thing since jump vectors.

On Collaboration

A group is it's own worst enemy (via Joel) which is an outstanding read if only for the goldmine of ideas it presents.

linkage from within the essay:
The Well which I'm calling an analog to NPR, that thing that I know I should be a member of, and listening to more, but aren't

Assuming Infinites

Web 2.0 : free bandwidth to your pocket! wherever you are! (if that's what Web 2.0 really means). (with NEW accurate positions!
(slashdot on techconsumer)

So.. you will always know where you are(Bruce Sterling) be able to watch youtube, and know the location of the nearest sushi restaurant.

So will everyone else (assuming infinite bandwidth)

which is hard to imagine given current technology
google free wifi in mt vista
google plan for wifi in San Fran

On Blogging

Yay! - test
Boo! mobile doesn't work!

Note: mobile doesn't mean via a phone... must be due to Scripting within blogger.