May 2008
The Archives
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Cycling
Livestrong Day a Success
Wow, thanks to everyone who supported the Lance Armstrong Foundation recently! Friends and family donated $325 for my upcoming century ride About 10 people registered for Adaptive Path events, so we’ll donate about $1000 3,590 new LIVESTRONG Challenge participants signed up (goal of just 2,000) $157,000 was raised on one day (goal of just $72,000) [...]
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Cycling
A Good Week for Cycling
This was bike-to-work week and it shaped up pretty well from my view. On California’s* bike-to-work day I rode the 10 miles to the BART station and back. I was on the fence up to the last minute since the train regulations stipulate that you can’t take a bike between 6:30 and 9:30am. I left [...]
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General
Street View in San Ramon
I noticed a few weeks back that Google Street View expanded it’s reach into San Ramon. At launch coverage ended in Castro Valley, about 1/2 way along Crow Canyon Road. Now, Street View extends throughout San Ramon and all the way out to Livermore. Since I had some substantial work done to my front yard [...]
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General
When Obama Wins….
Dan Saffer, Rachel Glaves and Andrew Crow started an online meme. All it took was a large number of followers on Twitter, a good idea and persistence. Andrew describes it well: It started with Dan mistyping Alabama as Alobama. The joke was that when Obama wins, things would be renamed. Like Californobama, etc. We then [...]
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Cycling
Bay Area Tops for Bikes
Bicycling Magazine released their top cities for cycling for 2008. This year, two Bay Area cities were on the list. San Francisco made the “Still Greatest” category and San Jose came in as a “Runner Up”. San Francisco All bike infrastructure projects here have been halted since 2006, when two “concerned” groups sued the city [...]
