The Great Bike Ride (round the river, 10km, 53km or 106km) is on the 22nd of November.

Entry for the 53km is $65, was it that expensive last year?

I've talked to a few people about bikes recently. This one is probably a little high on the price bracket (RRP US$1150), but definitely interesting:

Trek Soho
Flat bars. 8 speed internal geared hub. Belt drive. Roller brakes. 700x32 wheels. Comes with mudguards.

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Thanks to the generousity of grahame, I now have a DTV tuner card for my myth box.
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There's a 30km ride for the opening of the Perth-Bunbury highway next Sunday. Details.

Tempted, main annoyance would be getting home sensibly.

During business hours, so probably of minimal interest, but respammed here just in case. (No endorsement implied.)

Women only workshop - How to maintain your bike.
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Thinking about the AMD X2 4850e for CPU. Supposed to be energy efficient (45W), and Austin at least will sell me one for $85 (haven't started looking further afield yet ( Read more... )

Thanks to a very productive discussion with a workmate, I have some plans for new DVR hardware:

Asus M2N68-VM motherboard (HDMI, DVI, SPDIF) My preference has been for Intel processor, but I've been talked around by the fact that this will be $180 for motherboard and processor and it has everything I want (except possibly serial port header, but ( Read more... )

Local governments are doing free recycling of computers et. al. this weekend. Details.

The "intended for a bike" version: Broder pole and bike holder.
Alternatively: The DIY adaptation of a Stolmen pole (via treadlyandme).

The subject isn't always true - on my first visit to the new Ikea store they hadn't yet installed the bike racks (2 weeks later they had).

Thanks to a suggestion from themink17, I ended up as Dr Horrible at Swancon. (Indeed, thanks to some interesting scheduling, I ended up in said costume on 3 separate days.) I went with the "levelled up" red coat, both for aesthetics and because it's much easier to find black boots than white ones. So many people said positive things about my costume, which ( Read more... )