Bicycle Commuter Route via Google Maps API
Wednesday, June 29th, 02005Google announced the availability of an API to their Maps product today.
It's pretty sweet. I've used it to map my bicycle route to and from work.
Archive for June, 02005
In North Carolina for a few days
Monday, June 20th, 02005I'm in North Carolina (Raleigh area) on business for a few days. Just got in, and everything's real green.
I spent most of the fight working through the pickaxe book. Ruby's really growing on me.
Oak Flats and Back
Saturday, June 18th, 02005I got ~37 miles in this morning from my house to Oak Flats and back. I rode with full panniers about 1/4 loaded.
This is what an elevation profile looks like:
Ladron Peak
Sunday, June 12th, 02005
Training for RAGBRAI
Friday, June 10th, 02005I really need to begin training for RAGBRAI (I'm starting tomorrow, I swear). I googled for New Mexico bicycle touring routes and found this tremendous resource: New Mexico Touring Society. Awesome. I'm thinking the Tijeras Trot shouldn't be too difficult of a start tomorrow morning.
Updates:
| Days Left | Date | What I did |
| Sat June 11th | My house to 4 Hills Smiths, 4 Hills Smiths to Tijeras Ranger Station, and back: ~ 20 miles | |
| Sun June 12th | My house to 4 Hills Smiths, 4 Hills Smiths to Tijeras Ranger Station, and back: ~ 20 miles | |
| Mon June 13th | --- | |
| Tue June 14th | 30 minute run on treadmill: speed "4.5", incline "4" | |
| Wed June 15th | 30 minute run on treadmill: speed "4.5", incline "4" | |
| Thr June 16th | --- | |
| Fri June 17th | 30 minute run on treadmill: speed "4.6", incline "5" | |
| Sat June 18th | Bike loaded - my house to Oak Flats and back ~37.2 miles | |
| Sun June 19th | --- | |
| Mon June 20th | 30 minute run on treadmill: speed "4.6", incline "5" | |
| Fri June 24th | 30 minute run on treadmill: speed "4.6", incline "5" | |
| Sat June 25th | 40 minute run on treadmill: speed "4.8", incline "5" | |
| Sun June 26th | 40 minute run on treadmill: speed "4.8", incline "5" | |
| Mon June 27th | 30 minute run on treadmill: speed "4.9", incline "5" Bike ride to work and back |
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| Tue June 28th | Bike ride to work and back | |
| Wed June 29th | Bike ride to work and back | |
| Thr June 30th | Bike ride to work and back | |
| 22 | Fri July 1st | Bike ride to work and back |
| 21 | Sat July 2nd | Bike ride: NM217 Rollers ~ 50 miles |
| 20 | Sun July 3rd | --- |
| 19 | Mon July 4th | --- |
| 18 | Tue July 5th | Bike ride to work and back |
| 17 | Wed July 6th | Bike ride to work and back |
| 16 | Thr July 7th | Bike ride to work and back |
| 15 | Fri July 8th | Bike ride to work and back |
| 14 | Sat July 9th | Tijeras Ranger Station and back + Bike ride to work and back |
| 13 | Sun July 10th | Doc Long Picnic Area and back |
| 12 | Mon July 11th | work and back |
| 11 | Tue July 12th | work and back |
| 10 | Wed July 13th | --- |
| 9 | Thr July 14th | work and back |
| 8 | Fri July 15th | work and back |
| 7 | Sat July 16th | --- |
| 6 | Sun July 17th | --- |
| 5 | Mon July 18th | --- |
| 4 | Tue July 19th | Oak Flat and Back |
| 3 | Wed July 20th | Tijeras Ranger Station and back | 2 | Thr July 21st |
Google Sightseeing
Wednesday, June 8th, 02005Why leave home, when you can use Google to go sightseeing.
Theremin
Tuesday, June 7th, 02005When we were in college at ISU, Beef tried to convince me to build a Theremin. It never happened, but it would have been cool.
Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Monday, June 6th, 02005I've been learning the Ruby language over the course of the past couple days. I was inspired to do this mostly to better understand the hot new Ruby on Rails web application framework. It's been a very interesting learning experience. Is Ruby a sane Perl or a better Python? I'm reserving judgment until I can study it for a little while longer, but I remain stoked after a few days of fairly in-depth analysis.
Updates:
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby :: Expansion Pak #1. The Tiger’s Vest (with a Basic Introduction to Irb) has some excellent material on two great Ruby development tools: irb and ir (also covered in the Pickaxe book).
The Unoffical Ruby Usage Guide
PDF Slides for a Ruby course + a great example of presentation output generated from LaTeX
GMail
Sunday, June 5th, 02005As an experiment, I've configured my personal email addresses to forward a copy of every email I receive to my gmail account. I'm going to try and use only gmail for the next few weeks and see if it's everything that people say it is. I'm really, really, really, used to composing email text with mutt and vim, so it might take some getting used to, but we'll see.
GreaseMonkey
Wednesday, June 1st, 02005I encourage my readers who use Firefox to check out GreaseMonkey.
