http://blog.onno.com Anything I feel like Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:24:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (you should read this at the speed it was typed: slowly) After a hiatus of about four weeks, today at last I had time to ride the bicycle again. The RBC’s schedule featured a 54 mil ride from Geneseo called Killer Hill. Very appropriate for a glorious return to turning the ... http://blog.onno.com/?p=350 In my previous post I wrote about assisting with the Quadzilla bike race. A couple of the riders blogged too. To read about the event from a participant’s perspective: Leslie: http://andrewholton.blogspot.com/2010/08/quadzilla-400.htmlJud: http://www.njrando.com/blog/?p=133Oh and I can report that Dennis did indeed break the record!! Quadzilla has its own web site: http://www.quadzilla.us/ http://blog.onno.com/?p=346 On Saturday I helped out with the Quadzilla bike race: a 400 mile ride from Ithaca, NY circumnavigating all the finger lakes which riders need to complete in 40 hours. Tough? Nah, as Mark Frank the organizer says: “Anyone can do 400 miles at 10 mph.” Right. Sure. I was stationed ... http://blog.onno.com/?p=343 One thing I miss since the onslaught of digital photography is playing in the darkroom and doing black&white photography. Occasionally when editing a project I think “oh, that should look good in black and white.” In the photo editing application, I convert the image to black&white but seldom does it ... http://blog.onno.com/?p=340 Over the coming weeks I’ll be re-posting my favorite entries from an old blog. This is the first one, first published on March 14, 2007. The weekend of Feb 24-25 was the FOSDEM conference in Brussels. Just a train ride away from Amsterdam, so I flew over a day earlier to ... http://blog.onno.com/?p=337 Today was the Tour de Cure ride, in support of finding a cure to diabetes. I signed up a long time ago for the century ride (for the unwashed: that’s a 100 miles) assuming I would be riding 3-4 times a week and completed 2 or 3 centuries before then. ... http://blog.onno.com/?p=336 ...or maybe just a little of it... Last night my friend Mark returned to the live performance circuit with his brother-in-law, Jeff. Their acoustic duo is called Head Space. The performance was at the Cottage Hotel in Mendon, according to Mark’s email “a cool, roadhouse kind of joint. Good food, ... http://blog.onno.com/?p=334 After yesterday’s geeky day at RIT (BarCamp Rochester, talks ranging from how to hack the phones in the elevators at RIT to needing more technologists in politics - see my work blog) today is again a day of cycling. First of all the Tour of Flanders is on! The all-knowing steephill.tv ... http://blog.onno.com/?p=328 This is a call to action for all knees! Join in protest before it is too late! We have just become aware of this year’s Highlander Tour. Were previous editions already cause for concern, this time the course is truly offensive and entirely disrespectful of us knees. Not only does it ... http://blog.onno.com/?p=326 Last night was ROC Twestival, part of a worldwide series of charity events to promote the cause of education. These are entirely volunteer organized and hosted events. Our local hero you see pictured here, Matthew Raw, who again pulled of a great event and doing it while appearing as relaxed ... http://blog.onno.com/?p=322