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hunting…
spent the past two days hunting for apartments in brooklyn…this has been a rough process made more difficult by the current heat wave…smarmy. the iphone and it’s access to craigslist and google maps has really helped, but the battery dies about the same time that my stamina goes out…so i suppose it’s only fair. another […]
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i’m going slightly mad…
…sitting here looking for apartments 100 miles away. i suppose it could be worse – it could be 200 or 2000 miles away. regardless, weeks of filtering out all the noise in the available listings is taking it’s toll. understanding the situation in my neighborhood i fully expect brooklyn to be similar in that things […]
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Recovering
The initial reports of the GoldenCheetah beta for Windows are pretty positive. At least, it’s working for most people. The biggest comment is confusion over installation of the ftd2xx.dll driver. Another user had difficulty with write permissions in his home directory on Vista, however after being unable to reproduce the issue on my test system […]
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perspective
After the days of hacking away at Golden Cheetah and C++ on Windows, doing some html/css/php/js coding is like a breath of fresh air. There is something somewhat comforting about how rigid C++ is…I can quickly find where I’ve messed up, even if it takes me a bit to figure out how to correct my […]
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Drawing Automata
Of course, I can’t leave well enough alone. It was inevitable that I’d shirk other responsibilities to play and tinker with the drawing automata program. I’m happy with the results (so far), and am planning on printing these two as a diptych in a large format. A slightly altered version which shows the animated drawing […]
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More fun at ITP
ITP had their 2008 Spring Show this Monday and Tuesday. I went yesterday to check out the projects and to confirm if this was indeed the place where I want to be. Again, I was very impressed with most of the work and the enthusiasm of the students, and had a good time chatting with […]
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More debugging…
…needed. GC is still reporting a timeout when trying to download from the PowerTap. Today I got it to work by first opening HyperTerminal, connecting to the PT and sending a ‘V’ char, which caused the device to respond with it’s firmware version. Then, I disconnected and quit HyperTerminal and opened the download from device […]
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GoldenCheetah…on Windows
Very exciting development….GoldenCheetah has been ported to Windows. Justin Knotzke did most of the leg work and got the first build going. He helped hold my hand through getting my Windows development environment set up. Through much debugging I was able to pinpoint where the device communication was failing…and realized that there was an issue […]
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Wheel Building!
I finally built my first bicycle wheel. I’ve wanted to do it for a long while, but never got around to doing it. The opportunity presented itself after the Zipp 404 clincher rim laced to my PowerTap hub cracked, again. This has happened more than a few times to me, so I requested that Zipp […]