Perhaps an obvious analogy, but it made me laugh nonetheless:
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Another Successful STP
Yes, another 200 mile bicycle ride from Seattle to Portland is in the books. On the 12th and 13th of July 9500 cyclists got up early and started pedaling to Seattle. I did the same routine as last year, stopping at the halfway point in Centralia for the night on Saturday, but with my new LeMond, my average speed was significantly faster. My speedometer calculated an overall 16.4 mph for the trip, but I was told that was pessimistic since it included all of the 1 and 2 mph segments where I walked my bike from a rest stop back to the road. Removing those, someone in my group calculated that we were running closer to 17.5 mph. Pretty awesome. The below picture shows the four of us that did this together — Edmund, Eric, me, and Malcolm. Next year, perhaps we’ll think about doing it in one day instead of two :-)
Tim Russert Dead at 58
Bummer. I always enjoyed listening to him and thought that he was a class act. More at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25145431/.
Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed
I’ve been goofing around with Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed and microblogging and there’s clearly a few things I just don’t get. I started with Twitter, before Facebook, and thought it would be really cool to share status and microblog from my phone. But when Facebook arrived, where all my friends are (it turns out), I wonder what Twitter has to offer. Facebook status is essentially that microblog. I can get an RSS feed of that status (posted on this blog on the left). That status can be imported (via RSS) into FriendFeed, where others can see it along with my blog posts and other stuff. Since I can update my Facebook status via my cell phone, I’m just not getting the Twitter thing anymore. What am I missing?
One thing is that I don’t get status updates from others on my cell phone. It would be nice if there was a cell phone feed from FriendFeed. But is that it? Seems like a simple thing to add to FriendFeed.