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		<title>Cypress Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Part of the start line for the Cypress Challenge, Photo courtesy Glotman Simpson Cycling
I discovered something this weekend &#8211; maintaining an average heart rate of 170 for 49 minutes really takes a lot out of you!
For a change of pace, the friends that I ride with on the weekends decided to enter the Cypress Challenge, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving LA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Venice Beach
Getting out of LA was nowhere near as simple as one might expect.  First off there was the problem of buying gas for the rental car.  I drove into a nice looking gas station, swiped my credit card, and it asked to authorize a 75c charge &#8211; weird, but I thought OK, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LA day, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Grand view over LA &#8211; I&#8217;m curious if we got lucky, or if the skies are clearer?
Sunday we woke up, barely.
After breakfast we went to Venice Beach &#8211; Ling and Tim weren&#8217;t sure about going to a beach, but I insisted. This is *the* crazy beach in LA.  The one you see in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA in a day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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You can&#8217;t get more &#8220;LA&#8221; than this!
Here we were in LA.  Moderately rested, and rather suddenly I must admit (the Monday work conversations were interesting &#8211; &#8220;What did you do on the weekend?&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Flew to LA&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Huh?&#8221;
We got up the next morning, and immediately hit google to figure out what we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What am I doing in LA, and how did I get here?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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Walking over some of the most famous people in the world
The idea came about on Tuesday:  Ling&#8217;s sister Lu Yuen was going to be in Los Angeles (she was touring the US on vacation), and maybe we could drive down there for the weekend and visit her.  A quick check of the driving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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The story is written, and it is coming.  I just need to do some editing.  This is a teaser  
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		<title>Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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When looking at just about anything that changes regularly, you can divide the world into two groups:  traditionalists, who are apoplectic when things change, or pragmatists who recognize and move with changes.  Of course there isn&#8217;t a clear definition, and in some cases the same person can be a traditionalist in one area, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do we consider a Drivers Licence a licence to kill?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is an article that I've been drafting in my head for a long time, no recent events have led to it.  I actually had it written around mid-march, events since then have consistently conspired to leave me feeling like it was an inappropriate time, but I've finally decided I need to increase my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no way I can improve on this title</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad&#8230; 23 years ago
One interesting characteristic of Star Trek: The Next Generation—one that separated it from the original series and most of the early films—was its widespread use of smooth, flat, touch-based control panels throughout the Enterprise-D. This touch interface was also used for numerous portable devices known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello?  Sorry, didn&#8217;t mean to be rude</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favourite science site (and by science I mean everything &#8211; technology, physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, you name it) has been doing a long running series on the history of our reactions to new technology, and demonstrating how little attitudes change.
Their latest entry is looking at how telephone etiquette has been defined through the decades
Well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Focal Length 18mm @ f/5.6
What I&#8217;ve long taught at workshops is this: the wider the lens you use, the closer you probably should be to the nearest thing in your scene. And there should be a nearest thing in your scene!
&#8211;Thom Hogan, Lens Week

I&#8217;m still working on my &#8220;back to basics&#8221; and thinking about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speak of the devil&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ourlog.ca/?p=1458</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, dad and I were talking about old movies that we have gone back to watch and see how they hold up, or are curious to see again.
One of the ones I mentioned was &#8220;Something Wicked This Way Comes&#8221;, which I remember absolutely terrified me as a kid, and I&#8217;m curious &#8230; is it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe I should have followed my parents more</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw this in the news yesterday &#8230; a few years ago a man in California bought a bunch of pieces of glass (about 60) that had some nice looking landscape pictures on them, he paid $45 at a garage sale.
It&#8217;s now been confirmed that they are actually some of Ansel Adams lost glass negatives, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False Flats</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Attacking?
One of Ling&#8217;s co-workers sent me an email on Saturday, asking if I would mind if he followed us on our Sunday bike rides, and took some pictures.  The request is not so odd when you consider that two of my other riding partners also work with Ling [1].  We all agreed, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Requirements</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a geek / engineer at heart.  When Ling was going through her project management stuff today, I pointed out that last year when looking at what smartphone to get, I actually produced a requirements document / competitive comparison between the iPhone and the Droid (at the time the top of the line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ship on time, ship often</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently playing with the new iPhone OS, and marveling at how much faster it feels, and at the new features.  The changes in it remind me of a paradigm in software development that Apple does better than nearly everyone else (and places I have worked are trying to hard to do):

Don&#8217;t deliver a feature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consistently the most intelligent comic I read</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>He&#8217;s sure not mine&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you about the dog that lives in this house.
He likes to run around in the back yard and dig.  Since we have a large patch of dirt (that I am currently working on seeding) in the back corner of the yard, that&#8217;s a problem.  He runs in it, he digs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Essence of Planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translink never ceases to amaze me in it&#8217;s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The Canada Line has been a rousing success &#8211; from the day the line opened it has had far more riders than they expected, and is way ahead of schedule.  Translink had planned for it to take 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New Commute</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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This is my new commute, from Richmond into Burnaby (BCIT area).  Since I was on the bike today, and most of the way there, I wanted to try it out to ensure I knew how to do it, and what was in store for me.
The good news is the entire distance is on designated [...]]]></description>
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