After some pain, I now have all the pictures posted and available from this past weekend’s 2004 Reno Air Races.
Go take a look at the fast, cool planes.
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Air Race Goodness
I spent Saturday at the Reno Air Races and it was pretty darn cool. Seeing 5 to 10 airplanes racing head to head at over 200 mph just 300 feet off the ground is pretty hard to describe. It is just flat out amazing.
Most of the pictures I took don’t convey the sense of speed nor distance between the racers, but this is one of the best of the bunch that try: biplanes racing.
It's back!
Thanks to the quick work of one of the hosting site support guys I have most of my blog back. I’m still not sure how it got deleted, but I am going through and changing all the passwords and such now. Hopefully this will cut down on incidents in the future.
Oh, and I’m going to start doing backups now, too.
Calling it Fixed
I’m sure this will jinx it, but I’ve driven the 4Runner enough by now to call it fixed. It’s still the slow, top heavy, cargo hauler it has always been, but at least it is running right. I am sort of baby-ing the shifts a bit right now, but it seems to be back to normal.
Good thing, too. All this home improvement is eating into the budget. Next car stop (hopefully) is the fabled sports car. Mmmm, sports car.
See the World, Pick-up the Miles
I’m off on yet another business trip this week. This time around it’s a visit to Microsoft, then on to Canada for another LAN gaming show. With any luck I might spend a huge 10 hours in the house this week. On the other hand, I’ll have another 2000 miles on American Airlines.
I wonder what will kill me first: the job or the airport food?
On the Road Again
I’m sitting here on a smoggy Sunday afternoon, 33 stories up in a hotel in Taipei, Taiwan. Thanks to the busy travel season I’m here two full days before I normally would be. I contemplate the mound of work I should be doing as well as the plethora of crummy television on in Asia.
One thing that I am reminded of is how poorly Amercians are perceived outside the US. Bush has basically burned bridges the world over, and the general public will be paying for this long after he’s gone. It’s really, really sad, actually.
In the meantime I think I’ll find something more productive to do. Like breathing in some toxic local air, maybe.
Can Tivo Survive?
There has been some news of late (here and here) where it looks like DirecTV and Tivo may be on the outs. This matters a great deal to me because I love my Tivo, and it is a strong reason for having DirecTV.
But, that aside, Tivo’s very livelyhood rests on the ability to keep subscribers (and thus revenue) flowing to the company. So why does this matter? Well, DirecTV = 1 million Tivo subscribers. Tivo on its own has only 500K subscribers. I think you can see why it would be bad for DirecTV to leave Tivo in the cold.
I hope that Tivo wakes up and understands that their business policies (read: high pricing) are what is killing deals between themselves and would be subscriber magnets like cable companies. It is only a short time before they are rendered irrelevant by the coming freight train called Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition. Do they really want to fight their friends too?
New Gadget Lust
It’s hard to believe that I would be tempted by the potential goodness of new, unreleased and untested products (really!) but two have caught my eye recently, and I don’t know how I can live without them.
Motorola V600 GSM camera flip phone
Apple Airport Express WiFi G + audio extender
Now, go find and discuss. I’ll just wait here until someone gives me one of them.
Privacy Online
I received an email last night from a guy who has his email address posted on another site I manage. He was concerned that there weren’t safeguards on the email addresses and that they could be picked up by spammers. Good point.
In fact, as I look through several sites I find this to be a common problem: it is hard to be both open and informationally available while also being closed off from ill doers. As I search for the solution, if there is one, I suppose I’ll err on providing less information for the sake of better privacy.
It makes me wonder where the balance point is online. Isn’t being on a public network an admission of no privacy by proxy?
Drinkin' in Lincoln
As I sit here in my hotel room at 11:51pm I now realize how little there actually is to do out in the midwest. I am in Lincoln, NE and there is two things I’ve seen to do (and confirmed with a local): drink and tip cows.
Let it be known that I have verified these facts first hand, or at least the drinking part. Now I recall why I left this region in the first place 