The University of Iowa opens the 2007 Football season this weekend (Sat, Sept 1st @ 2:30 PM Central) against Northern Illinois University in the fine city of Chicago. It should be a great event to attend. If you are in the Chicago area, you can join in preparation with the Hawkeye nation by wearing black [...]
Eddie Griffin died in an auto accident on Aug 17th, and for several days the world was unaware. Unfortunately, it took that long to identify his charred remains. His vehicle burst into flames after ignoring a [...]
Ever wonder how fast you are running? Everyone does it. It’s natural, particularly once you have become fatigued enough to start to slow down. Here’s a quick and dirty way to get a gauge on your pace.
In order to calculate your pace, you need to know two things: time spent and distance covered. The idea [...]
This announcement arrived in my inbox yesterday:
NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2007 – NBA Commissioner David Stern announced today that the NBA has named Lawrence B. Pedowitz, a former Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and current partner at law firm [...]
Once upon a time, I wrote a little blurb on Piggy Bank and Solvent. Piggy Bank is a tool for maintaining RDF information taken from web pages, or data sources. Solvent is a tool which helps in the creation of RDF information through the use of Javascript “scrapers” designed for a given page or site. [...]
Yesterday, I pushed the big, red, candy like button and killed the first of the extra hosting plans. The funny thing is I am still trapped between Lunarpages and GoDaddy since [...]
Tuesday, for some inexplicable reason, I signed up for next years Lifetime Triathlon — the olympic distance. The lengths are 1.5K swim, 40K bike, 10K run. 1500 meters of swimming in Lake Nokomis should provide enough motivation to make anyone want to get out of the water just as soon as possible.
I suppose [...]
Well, the plan to post something each day from RAGBRAI may have been a good one, but it proved to be hard to execute. The start of the plan was to get some [...]
