I am currently looking around to see if I can get Mozilla Thunderbird and Sunbird to sync with my Sony Ericsson s710a phone. Currently I can sync with Outlook, but I like Thunderbird a bit better. So far I have found two approachs:
1) MobileMaster: Lets you sync both you calendar and address book. The only problem is that it costs $29. That is not so bad I suppose, but still… http://www.mobile-master.com/index.html
2) Sync4j: An application framework that lets you sync a lot of different programs and devices together. It looks like it is just getting started, but I think it could be pretty interesting in the future: http://www.sync4j.org/
I think I am just going to use Outlook for a while longer until this is sorted out.
Remember those train set from your childhood? Now imagine if they were steam powered and gave off little puffs of steam while going chuga-chuga… pretty cool right? Well these trains have electric boilers that produce steam, that drives that train. A little round-about, but pretty fansanating!
http://www.hornby-usa.com/cs_ls.asp
Good to know:
“Pennies made before 1982 are better for squishing because they are mostly copper. Newer pennies are mostly zinc, which doesn’t crush quite as well.”
To the tune of Row-Row-Row-Your-Boat:’
Bike, bike, bike your bike steadily down the street,
Merrily, merrily, merrily, this ride is quite a feat
If you are a good computer user you should have a different password for each account, and should switch them frequently… which makes it pretty close to impossible to remember them. The KeePass program helps you remember them all and create better passwords, ie not your birthday. It secures them all using really strong encryption and all you have to remember is the Master Password for the program. You can keep it on a flash drive, that way you can simply plug it into a computer and go.
I am going to give a try and report back.
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
The Tour of Hope DC Charity ride took place last Saturday. Or should have taken place. Unfortunately Tropical Storm Tammy decide to stop by and deliver 7+ inches of rain. It ended up still being a good experience, all be it a little soggy. The good news is that the ride raised over $1.4 million, and I helped collect $709 which I think is amazing!! Thank you to everyone who contributed!!
Ride Photos: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=b39fgtf.9369nttf&x=0&y=mnieq8
The Recap:
I woke up at 3am on Saturday in order to catch the bus to the start of the ride in Columbia, MD. It was pouring out and it had been raining for the past day. The rain wasn’t too bad though because it was 70 out. The bus left from the J.W. Marriott in Downtown DC so I biked down there. There roads were empty, so it was actually sort of fun, even though I got soaked. When I got down to the Marriott there were already about 500 people waiting to load up their bikes into a moving truck and hop on a bus to the start. There was coffee and pastries so it wasn’t too bad a wait.
The amazing thing about all of this is that people were not complaining, at all. Everyone seemed to be in good spirits. A lot of people were just happy to have a concrete way to help out, especially against something so random.
Once I got on the bus, I ended up sitting next to one of the riders from last years cross-country ride. For the entire bus ride he was telling great stories, about his ride, the people he meet and of course riding with Lance. The thing that amazed him the most was the kind of support they got while riding. School marching bands would setup and play from them as they rode by. Farmers would line up there tractors along the side of the road. His favorite time was when they had been bike through the night in Iowa. The sun had just come up and they were riding through the fields. As they got close to the edge of a town they could see a sea of yellow. An entire elementary school had come down to see them ride by. ( of course they stopped 
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Anyhow to continue, by the time we had made it up to Columbia, MD we had all pretty much come to terms with the fact that we would be riding in the pouring rain for the next 4 hours. Also the bus had the AC on so I was near hypothermia with my wet clothes on… or at least it seemed. So we can see the tents for the start and are about to pull into the driveway when a lady comes on the bus and announces that the ride has been called off. A number of the roads we were going to use had been flooded and the local police had revoked the permits. Everyone was pretty disappointed but took it pretty well. So it is about 6:00AM and we head back to DC.
Sitting across the aisle were two ladies who had driven down from Minnesota for the ride, and took the news surprisingly well, considering. That was one thing that became apparent from the start, it is tough to complain because someone there had either done more to be there or been through worse. One of the ladies who had driven down lost both her grandmother and mother to breast cancer and had tested positive for the gene herself. Things like that make four hours in the rain not seem so bad.
I made it back to my place around 8:30 and took a long, warm shower. After breakfast I went back downtown to watch the cross country riders arrive. I got some photos of that and a rally afterwards. I also managed to get some photos of Lance but unfortunately I didn’t see Sheryl! Next time !! So basically I was really glad I was able to be a part of this and I want to thank everyone for there contributions that allowed for that. I would have been nice to be able to ride, but it was still a great experience.
The Photos:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=b39fgtf.9369nttf&x=0&y=mnieq8
Thanks!
-Luke Klein-Berndt
Don’t you hate un-level sideburns? Well my “Big Idea” is have a small level built into the head of the razor. You would level the razor and then cut away. Of course you have to make sure you head is level too… can’t solve every problem!
Things learned while researching how to make Beef Stew:
- The best cut of beef to use is Chuck. There are a bunch of different names for it including: boneless chuck-eye roasts, cross-rib roasts, blade steaks and roasts, shoulder steaks and roasts, and arm steaks and roasts.