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Google Drive was released yesterday and I have had a chance to check it out on a limited basis. If you aren't familiar with Google Drive, it is basically a cloud storage system that is somewhat of a replacement for Google Docs. They now have a desktop client for Windows and Mac, so you can keep files locally and sync them to your Google Drive. So ...

I've know about Google Cloud Print for awhile and I even tested it just to see if it works. It allows you to do stuff like print documents from you Android phone or Chrome browser to a home printer... Even if you a thousand miles away. Pretty cool, eh? For me, I hate printing and I am usually at home or at work with tons of printers, so I haven't ...

I've been working on a problem that involves translating an Oracle database into MySQL. The conversion process has been working great – thanks to the great conversion tool provided by Intelligent Converters. Unfortunately, we hit a snag with it earlier this week. Because of our specific requirements, we are storing som docs and images in the ...

The NAS project I started awhile ago was settled when we picked the Netgear ReadyNAS line. Or so I thought. The issue was recently reopened when our HQ turned on mandatory SMB Signing and "broke" our NAS units out in the field. I was tasked to come up with a fix and that is where it got complicated. When we noticed the new security standard had be ...

This was a fun ride... until the end... We started in Glendale and headed out to Morrison and back. The first leg of our ride took us on the Cherry Creek Trail up to the REI downtown. This is a nice trail to ride except that it can get crowded with other cyclist and pedestrians on Saturdays.  It can actually be more stressful to ride on a cro ...

This week, we joined up with our Colorado Springs counterparts for a joint ride. To make things easy we met at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Our Denver coaches were out of town this week, so we were led by Ben - the COS coach.  Because we were scheduled to only do 50 miles or so, we were going to to try to shorten one of the Elephant Rock r ...

This week we revisited a ride that I absolutely hated at the beginning of last year. Deer Creek was the first real climbing we did last year and it was the first for many on this year's team. And this year we started further up the Platte River Trail (at Overland Pond Park). The ride down the Platte River Trail looks flat but it is actually a slig ...

I had this copy of my Moab Century video on my hard drive since last year, but I didn't want to upload to YouTube since I used copyrighted music. But from what I understand, You tube won't necessarily delete a video with copyrighted video, but they will show links for people to purchase the music. Just to be safe, I uploaded this with my other acco ...

This week we met at a church in Superior and then did an out and back to Hygiene. This is normally a fun ride and a chance to practice our team pacelining. Unfortunately, the weather wasn't going to cooperate. Not only was it cold (about 32 degrees), the wind was bad. The whole time we had about a 22mph cross wind with 32mph gusts. My neck and shou ...