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Stud Test
This morning, at long last, I was able to give my studded tires their first true test. We got around an inch of snow Saturday, followed by a nice glaze of ice, plus a little bit of melting and re-freezing action on Sunday and Sunday night. As a result, I had a nice variety of…
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Mid January Biking Report
Thanks to our continued warm winter weather, I’ve started off 2012 on a biking tear. I’ve already ridden to work 9 times, reaching that mark a week earlier than any previous January. The spreadsheet I use to track my rides tells me that I’m on pace for 259 total rides and 5617 total miles in…
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Another GIMP Trick
Recently, I had occasion to convert a few shapes extracted from a flash movie to PNG format. I used the excellent swftools suite to extract the shapes from the movie, and then I used Gnash to render the shapes and save PNG format screen shots. This works great, but unfortunately, the resulting image is missing…
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Happy New Year
Well it’s 2012, and I’m back to work, and by extension, riding to work. My 2-week holiday break was great, and much needed, but it seems that the older I get, the less my body likes changes to its routine. I don’t miss work much for its own sake, but I miss the day-in, day-out…