the personal blog of Greg Bassett, IT Security, Travels & Endurance Sports

Month: January 2009 (Page 2 of 2)

Cool Dive Gear

If my dad were still around, he’d be all over this. Tres Cool!

Spectrum: Winner: Poseidon Discovery – The world’s leading designer of scuba gear brings closed-circuit rebreathers to the masses

Microprocessor-powered dive gear. What an amazing age we live in!

Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream – NYTimes.com

Nice article about Ubuntu

and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream – NYTimes.com

I’ve been pretty happy since switching over my main “surfing” lappie to Ubuntu. I still have some strange stuff once in awhile (Firefox taking over the entire screen) and some stuff that took some hacking to figure out (Skype doesn’t like the default sound package) and other stuff that just doesn’t work reliabley at all (printing on shared Windows devices). However 90% of the time, it just works, which is all I ask of an OS.

Project Blackbird – Phase II

Scored a fine race wheelset from a very generous TRI-DRS member (thanks stv!)
Got them mounted on Blackbird!

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Shiny!

Weekly WTF – MTB Edition

I LOVE the ” Picture” series of posts from the Boston Globe’s website. Sometimes, however the pictures can be, umm odd:


Still, the site is well worth adding to your RSS feeds!

Good vibrations.

Must be something in the air, Kahuna is feeling it:
and Iron Wil is feeling it: Through Th3 Wall (Changes post) and your’s truly is feeling extra good about himself, his place on the planet and his foreseeable future.

For me, it’s probably related to getting back to a 2-a-day training regimen. I’m more focused at work and almost always “in the flow”. I look forward to my workouts, no matter how challenging or difficult. I’m REALLY looking forward to the upcoming race season.

So maybe is workout endorphins, or maybe it’s just New Years optimism, but I’ll take it!

Happy New Year

As I was clearing out my Google Reader page, and finally got caught up on my APOD feed, I ran across this bit of beauty:

Picture of the Day – The Sky in Motion

Happy New Year to you!

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