2000–2009
1,347 posts
2009 232
December 2009
- Review: Treason
- Bequia 30
- Canouan to Union Island
- Young Island to Canouan
- Young Island
- Review: Snake Agent
- Review: Stabilizing an Unstable Economy
- Review: Passage at Arms
- Wallilabou Bay to Young Island
- Christmas Day
- Wallilabou Bay
- Wallilabou Bay
- La Soufriere
- Port Elizabeth to Wallilabou Bay
- Bequia
- Review: Transition
- Rodney Bay to Bequia
- Rodney Bay
- Marigot Bay to Rodney Bay
- Rodney Bay to Marigot Bay
- Prologue
- 2009 Books of the Year
- Review: Better
- Review: Connected
- Review: PlayStation 3 + Accessories
- Review: How The Mighty Fall
- End of Year Financial Advice
- Review: The Six Directions of Space
- Review: Your Money and Your Brain
November 2009
- My Book Project
- Review: Mercury Falls
- Honda Fit first impressions
- Programming Tools
- Some conversations are too funny not to post
- Review: Dark City, Director's Cut
- Review: Stop Acting Rich
- Review: The Investor's Manifesto
- Kindle App for your PC
- Review: Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide
- Review: LG WM2016 Washing Machine
- Review: Honda Fit Floor Mats
- Review: Crazy for God
- 2010 Tour of the German-Speaking Alps Proposal
- Review: Engineering your retirement
- The New York Times once again carries water for the Republican party
- Review: First American Home Buyers Protection
October 2009
- Piaw buys a car
- Review: Stories of Your Life and Others
- Review: Enough
- Review: The Luck Factor
- Review: More than you know
- Gastronauts Launch Party
- Reverse Brain Drain?
- Review: Kool-Stop Salmon Brake Pads
- Review: The Numerati
- Upgrades should always have a positive connotation
- Sting Followup
- International Kindle Launches
- San Jose Rock & Roll 2009
September 2009
- Why you should not tour like Piaw
- Thoughts on Cycling in Hokkaido and Japan
- Touring Hokkaido Tips and Resources
- Review: House of Suns
- Review: Born to Run
- Tour of Hokkaido 2009
- Review: Roku Soundbridge
- Epilogue
- Lake Shikotsu "Lapland" to Chitose Airport
- Yubari Forest Youth Hostel to Lake Shikotsu "Lapland"
- Shintoku "Drum Kan" to Yubari Forest Youth Hostel
- Ashoro to Shintoku
- Teshikaga to Ashoro
- Rausu to Teshikaga
- Utoro to Rausu
- Kotan to Utoro
- Bihoro to Lake Kusharo
- Sounkyo to Bihoro
- Biei "Tomato" Minshuku to Sounkyo Hot Springs
- Asahidake to Biei "Tomato" Minshuku
- Biei "Potato" Hostel to Asahidake Hot Springs
- Tokachidake Hot Springs to Biei "Potato" Hostel
- Furano to Tokachidake Hot Springs
August 2009
- Yubari Forest Youth Hostel to Furano Highlander Onsen
- Sapporo to Yubari
- Sapporo
- Chitose to Sapporo
- First day in Hokkaido
- Prologue
- Why all the moaning about Kindle DRM is a crock
- Pre-Japan Shakedown Cruise
- Review: Squeezebox Duet
- Review: Wireless
- The Joys of Homeownership
- Yellowjacket Sting OWOWOW
- Review:Schlage Keypad Locks
- Management
- Gazos Creek Loop
July 2009
- Comments Vampirism and the Segregation of Communities
- Review: Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream - A Day in the Life of Your Body
- Hubs
- More Right Wing Stupidity
- Review: ProBar High Performance Nutrition Bar
- Politics
- Review: The Language of Power
- Review: After the Software Wars
- Review: Virtuality
- Review: The Lost Steersman
- Doubts about Asset Allocation
- Bicycle Wheels: Loctite or Not
- Review: Pushing Ice
- Paris 1998
- Crater Lake National Park and the Northern California Coast
- Paragliding off Big Sur: A Photo Essay
- Sailing in the San Juans
- Cycling is not good for your bones
- Coast to Coast Pictures (Consolidated)
- Why the Buying Frenzy?
- When do you need a financial planner?
June 2009
- Review: Century Rain
- Cranks, Bottom Brackets, and Upgrades
- Review: Zima Blue And Other Stories
- Review: Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
- Purissima Creek Hike
- Tour of the Alps 2005 Pictures Redux
- Review: The Outskirter's Secret
- New Zealand 2000: Flying Kiwi
- This year's bike trip...
- Review: Defense Grid, The Awakening
- Netgear Fail
- Tuition and Alumni Giving
- New England 2000 Bike Trip
- South Africa, February 2001
- Review: The Age of Entanglement
- The Miscellaneous Collection
- Review: The Graveyard Book
- Tour of Hokkaido Solicitation Letter
- Dead Kindle
- Pictures from my first bike tour in Europe
- Tour of the Alps 2003 Updated
May 2009
- Mountain Charlie Loop
- Review: Samsung SBH 500 Stereo Bluetooth Headphones
- Review: The Steel Remains
- Review: The Lost Fleet, Relentless
- Working with your hands
- Review: The Prefect
- Review: Soon I Will be Invincible
- Short Mt. Tam Ride
- A Quick Tutorial on ND grad. filters
- Grand Tetons and Yellowstone Trip, September 2002
- Review: The Steerswoman
- Review: Absolution Gap
- Review: The Science of Fear
- The Relay, 2009
- Review: Black Diamond Orbit Lantern
- Cazedero LDT
- Kindle DX a massive boon to travelers
- Review: My Life as a Quant
- Review: Escaflowne
- A Consolidated Cycle Touring Page
- Review: Almost Perfect
April 2009
- Review: Redemption Ark
- Australia: A Photo Journey
- Black Mountain Summit
- Review: HP m9600t Desktop PC
- The Promise of Sleep
- The lifetime of bike parts
- Review: Chasm City
- Review: Tivax Digital TV Converter Box
March 2009
- Review: Stephenson Warmlite Tent
- The Out of Shape Ride
- Australia Impressions
- Australia Index
- New Computer
- Review: Galactic North
- The Red Center
- Review: Revelation Space
- Warning to Australian travelers, avoid AAT Kings
- Review: Fight Club
- Review: The Order War
- Exmouth, Australia
- Review: The Magic Engineer
- Margaret River Area
- Review: The Towers of Sunset
- Perth
- The Great Ocean Road
- Review: The Magic of Recluce
February 2009
- Tasmania (Part IV)
- Review: The Talisman
- Review: Daemon
- The Overland Track (Tasmania Part 3)
- Tasmania (Part II)
- Tasmania (Part 1)
- Melbourne
- Review: JAG in Space novels
- Atherton
- Kindle 2 Launch
- Review: Stark's War, Stark's Command, and Stark's Crusade
- Cairns
- Aboard the Spirit of Freedom
- Jenolan Caves and More
- The Blue Mountains
- Singh-Ray versus High-tech
- Katoomba in the Blue Mountains
- Sydney III
January 2009
- The food of my youth
- Sydney (Part II)
- Sydney (Part I)
- Review: FDR
- Why the tech pundits got the Kindle wrong
- Going to Australia for 2 months
- Should a startup take outside investor money?
- Angel Investing
- Review: The Best of Michael Swanwick
- Tax Resources, Inc without Turbotax
- How I deal with Sleep Apnea and Cycling, Backpacking, and Sailing
- Review: Blackmark
- Windy Hill OSP
- In memoriam: Nikola Postolov
- The Serial Angel Investor
- Up and down Highway 9
- Stitching Software
- PG&E Trail Hike
- Review: Incandescence
- LDT Shoreline
- Health is a wonderful thing...
- My digital conversion (part IV)
- Black Mountain Hike
- 2009 Book Reviews Index
- Review: Thirteen
- Arastedero Loop
- Stock Compensation At Startups
- My Digital Conversion (Part III)
2008 312
December 2008
- 2008 Books of the Year
- Inflation
- Tax Loss Harvesting
- My Digital Conversion (Part II): "Film" is Cheap
- Review: Happiness
- Castle Rock to Big Basin HQ
- My Digital Conversion
- Review: The Dragons of Babel
- The Cheapskate Guide to Getting a G1 Running
- Saratoga Gap Hike
- Why Investing is Hard
- Review: Archform: Beauty
- Review: A Splendid Exchange
- Chrome 1.0 is Superfast
- A Book Reviewers Linkup Meme
- The Limits of Financial Planning
- StreetView Trike
- Why I love YouTube, part whatever!
- Review: Canon G9 Digital Camera
- Munich Trips Index
- Another Kindle Mystery Solved
- Review: The Buried Pyramid
November 2008
- Review: Adiamante
- My signed Krugman book
- Review: Talent is Over-Rated
- Review: Valiant
- Miyuki Nakajima
- Snow in Munich
- Snow
- Review: The Audacity of Hope
- Pulp Fiction in trouble
- Review: Brain Rules
- Hofer Hike
- K.D. Lang is Amazing Live!
- My last weekend ride in Germany
- Review: Buyology
- Review: Wild Cards
- Beautiful Moonlight Commute
- Review: The Farthest Shore
- Radstadt/Salzburg Tour
- Health Insurance, Healthcare, and Policy
- Bonds FAQ
- Review: The Tombs of Atuan
- Wolfrathausen/Stanbergersee/Holzkirchen Ride
- Review: A Wizard of Earthsea
- Review: Sweet Silver Blues
October 2008
- Review:; My Name is Legion
- Review: The Story of the Tour De France (Vol 2)
- Hollriegelskreuth to Wolfrathausen
- Review: Interzone Magazine (Subscription)
- Review: Courageous
- Zugspitze Trip
- Long Term Review: Kindle
- Review: The Art of the Start
- Review: Flash
- Review: Orphans of Chaos
- Review: Starfish
- Review: Dauntless and Fearless
- Review: The Trouble with Physics
- Review: The Story of the Tour De France Vol 1
- Turkey Sailing Trip
- Accept no substitutes!
- Review: The Snowball
- Doyenz exits stealth mode
- My Commute Got Prettier!
- Garmisch Fall Hike/Bike Ride
- Roberto's Tour Across France pictures
- Funny quote w.r.t. Richard Morgan
- Review: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- Review: Star Guard
- Review: The Business
- Review: The Lion of Farside
- Review: Touch of Evil
- Review: Lord of Light
- Review: Lamb
- Get Rich Slow
September 2008
- Review: Everything's Eventual
- Review: Zoe's Tale
- Conclusion
- Review: Exposure Lights Joystick Maxx
- Bourg-en-Bresse Rest Day
- Athens Slideshow
- Remuzat to St. Julian en Vencors
- Orange to Entrechaux
- Long Term Review: Custom Frame from Carl Strong
- Review: Traffic
- Equipment Review: Vibram Five Fingers
- Assling-Chiemsee-Grafing
- Pictures of my feet on Guy Kawasaki's blog
- Equpiment Review: Bagman Saddlebag Support
- Luz-St.-Sauveur to Arreau
- Cycling Culture Differences
- Bielle to Luz-St.-Sauveur
- Day 3: Oschagavia to Bielle
- Appendix B: Tour of the Pyrenees Statistics
- Day 2: St. Etienne to Ochagavia
- Introducing Piaw Routing
- Day 1: Hendaye to St. Etienne-de-Baigorry
- Tour Across France 2008
- Tour Across France Pictures
- More Greek YouTube Videos
- Nantua to Geneva
- Bourg-en-Bresse to Nantua
- La Tour du Pins to Montagnat
- St. Julien-en-Vencors to La Tour du Pin
- Neil Med Sinus Rinse Nasal Irrigator
- Greece Vacation Slideshow Video
- Entrechaux to Remuzet
- St. Marcellin
- Ales to Orange
- Causse-de-la-Selle to Ales
- Montepellier to Causse de la Selle
- Rest Day: Tour du Madaloc
- Gincla to Argeles-Sur-Mer
- Tarascon-sur-Ariege to Gincla
- St. Lary to Tarascon-sur-Ariege
- Arreau to St. Lary
- Tour of the Pyrenees so far
- Pyrenees
August 2008
- Satellite tracking for the 2008 Pyrenees trip
- Review: Matter
- $70 off Kindle
- Review: Grossan Nasal Irrigator
- Review: Waterpik Ultra
- Wolfrathausen/Schielersee/Holzkirchen
- Panoromic Photos from Rosenlaui
- Review: Soul, by Tobsha Learner
- Review: To Home and Ehvenor
- Trip Report: Rosenlaui
- Another Rosenlaui Picture
- Back from Rosenlaui
- The True Cost of Cheap Parts
- The Security Boondoggle
- Walchensee Loop
- Review: Steel Beach
- Holzkirchen Loop Ride
- Review: The Munich/Paris Night Train
- Commuting
- Is housing a good investment?
- Breaking News: Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund just became more tax efficient
- Review: Tarzan of the Apes
- Erding Radmarathon (not quite a century)
- Review: The Last Unicorn
- Cultural Differences III: Messages Society Sends
July 2008
- The Spreadsheet Asset Allocation Tool
- Review: Guardians of the Flame - Legacy
- Chronicles of The Black Company (Books 1 - 3) Kindle Edition
- Salzkammergut Bike Route
- Cultural Differences II: Appliances
- The Perils of Ordering from Amazon.de (when you own a Kindle)
- Hotel Recommendation: Hotel De La Paix Montparnasse
- Review: The Guardians of the Flame
- The Paris Bicycle Transport System
- Review: Hungry for Paris
- Misunderstandings of the Efficient Market Hypothesis can be a serious threat to your financial health
- Is the Kindle starting to tip the Publishing industry?
- Review: The Best of the Year: Science Fiction 2007 Edition
- Kindle Battery life
- Thoughts on Financial Planning
- Review: Value Averaging
- Lauterbrunnen Trip
- Review: Fantasy - The Best of the Year 2006
- Review: Book of Lost Things
- Review: Saturn's Children
- Navigating the incredibly complex European train system
- Review: In the Midnight Hour
June 2008
- Navigating the incredibly complex Munich public transit system
- Review: Gomadic Charging System
- Review: Battlestar Galactica
- Wolfrathausen to Holzkirchen
- Walchensee Hike
- Cultural Differences
- Review: Duma Key
- Nordlingen to Rothenberg
- Sinking Saddles Returns
- Review: How Doctors Think
- Review: In the Garden of Iden
- Review: On Writing
- Review: Nudge
- Lufthansa Misplaced my Tandem
- Sinking Saddles
- Follow up Mint.com Review
- Riding the Frankenbike
- Review: Look to Windward
- On ipods and cities
- Raising the Bar Revisited
- Holzkirchen Loop Ride (2)
- Interesting Sights
May 2008
- Review: Market Forces
- Tips on using the Garmin 76CSx
- View of Munich
- My solution to my banking problems
- Review: How to Rig an Election
- The Perils of International Banking
- Riding my gloves to destruction
- Review: Science Fiction, The Best of the Year 2006
- Review: Skoody
- Review: Farthing
- Black Forest Tour
- Review: A Song of Stone
- Deutsches Museum
- Review: Northanger Abbey
- Munich
- Munich: Impressions
- Review: Little Brother
- Full Feed Available
- Review: My Own Kind of Freedom
- Review: Woken Furies
- Ebersberg/Salzburg/Traunstein Tour
- Goethe Institute 2 week Superintensive German class
- Iron Man Movie Review
- Review: Rolling Thunder
- Another Bavarian Ride
- Review: Broken Angels
April 2008
- Garmisch Partenkirchen to Bad Tolz
- Review: Altered Carbon
- More YouTube Loving
- The Council Wars
- Amazon Kindle back in stock
- Review: The Salmon of Doubt
- Day riding in the Bavarian Foothills
- Review: Crystal Rain
- Review: Bringing Down The House
- Munich
- Review: Spin Control
- First Ride in Munich
- Review: Spin State
- Sydney Pictures and Honking Cool Lizard!
- Berkeley Hills Ride
- Australia - Part 10 - Diving the GBR
- Lea is Famous!
- The Most Expensive GPS Mount...
- Kata Tjuta Pictures
- Australia - Part 9 - Kayaking, Daintrees, and a Nice Dinner.
- Pictures are up!
- Australia - The Daintrees ( Part 8 )
March 2008
- Saturday's Ride
- Review: Welcome to Your Brain
- Review: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
- Review: A Feast for Crows
- Review: Kindle
- Ayer's Rock II - Part 6
- Australia Log Part 5
- Touring Configuration
- Australia Log Part 4
- Australia Log Part 3
- Australia Log Part 2
- Tax Implications of Moving to Germany
- Tax Time
- Review: Planet Bike Super Flash
- Australia log part 1
- Pigeon Point LIghthouse Tour 2008
- Diver Dan's Beginning Open Water
- On interviewing
- FrankenBike is done!
- Analysis: Long Leaf Partners
- Review: In Defense of Food
- Why reinvestments mess up your taxes
- Review: Turbo Tax Premier Federal + State 2007
- Retire Early on DFA Advisors
February 2008
- Review: Inside Intuit
- Cycle Touring and the Spriit of Adventure
- Review: Creative DECT Skype Phone
- Review: Fatal Revenant
- Review: SKS Race Blades
- My first carbon failure
- Review: Declare
- First impressions: Strong Frame
- Lumotec Light Problems and Diagnosis
- Review: Halting State
- The Ti bike is ready
- Review: The Runes of the Earth
January 2008
- Review: The Atrocity Archives
- Moving to Munich
- Review: Three Days to Never
- Casual Programming in Windows
- Macbook Air Analysis
- Review: The Jennifer Morgue
- Mossberg pans the EEE PC
- Review: Sigma 2006MHR Bike Computer/Altimeter
- Building a Custom Frame (Part IV)
- Review: Picasa
- The Bicycle Wheel
- Review: Garmin GPSmap 76CSx
- Resources
- Things I learned on this trip
- Day 13: January 5th, 2008
- Day 12: January 4th, 2008
- Review: You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop
- Day 11: January 3rd, 2008
- Day 10: January 2nd, 2008
- Day 9: New Year's Day, January 1st, 2008
- Frame under construction
- Day 8: New Year's Eve, December 31st 2007
- Day 7: December 30th, 2007
- Day 6: December 29th, 2008
- Review: Dive Shops in the Virgin Islands
- Day 5: December 29th, 2007
- Day 4: 27th December 2007
- Review: EEE PC
- Day 3: 26th December 2007
- Day 2: Christmas Day
- 2008 Book Reviews Index
- Review: Spin
- Review: Canon WP-DC 70 Waterproof Housing for the SD500
- 2007 Books of the Year
- Day 1: Christmas Eve, 2007
- Pictures: Virgin Islands Trip
- Prologue, Dec 22nd-23rd, 2007
- Index to the Virgin Islands Trip
- The Voyage of Rya Jen
- Life on Mars TV Series Review
2007 171
December 2007
- Virgin Island Pictures, Part the First
- Book Review: While I was Gone
- Rainbow over St. Croix
- View from Cessna 402
- Sunset at St. Croix
- Why I love Youtube
- The Witcher Review
- Steve Yegge on Code Size Bloat
- Krugman unearths more Obama history...
- Paul Krugman @ Google now live on you tube
- Review: The Accidental Time Machine
- Review: Agent to the Stars
- Review: The Android's Dream
- Paul Krugman Visits Google
- Gtags 2.0 released
- Review: Topeak Road Morph v2
- The Asus EEE PC
- Au Revoir, Mac OS X
- John Gruber on the Obama Health Plan
- Changing my position on Obama
- Book Review: The Conscience of a Liberal
- Book Review: One Economics, Many Recipes
- Book Review: iWoz
November 2007
- My Culinary Internship
- Review: The Trouble with Islam Today
- Review: Schulz and Peanuts
- My thanksgiving present
- Review: Bicycling and The Law
- Obama Visits Google
- Review: Argonautika
- Review: The Age of Turbulence
- You cannot outsource financial work part II
- Warren Buffett Interview
- Outsourced: The Movie
- Greg Mankiw keeps digging his hole
- A must read for would-be investors
- Steve Levy Reports on the APM World Tour
- Dead iPod
- Why Financial Planning is Important
- Highly Concentrated Portfolios: A Case Study
- John Doerr Visits Google
- Tax planning II
- Farseer Trilogy
October 2007
- Berkeley Hills Ride
- Is it too late to join this hot startup?
- Review: Acacia Book One: The War Against the Mein
- Interview with Paul Krugman
- James Lovelock thinks global warming is irreversible
- Sailing on the Bay (again)
- Fall Ride
- How to be lucky
- Review: Take a Nap! Change your life.
- Tax Planning and other financial matters
- You cannot outsource financial work
- US Productivity Slowing
- Review: Order of the Stick Print Comics
- 1:57:26 for 13.1 miles
- Feeling wealthy
- Review: The Other Boleyn Girl
- Building a custom bike, Part III
- Review: The Birth of Plenty
September 2007
- Fall Riding
- Review: The Looming Tower (Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11)
- Practical Bikes
- Retirement calculators
- Conversation with William Bernstein
- Review: Mint.com
- Review: The Blind Side
- Joel figures out how to beat Google
- Review: The Dynamic Path
- Too little, too late (Republicans are Evil, Part VII)
- Building a Custom Bike Part II
- Follow up: More Dinotte Nastiness
- Review: Making Comics
- Engrish
- Review: The Fall of Kings
- Queuechup is unethical
- Review: The Bottom Billion
- First sail of the year
- Meng gets famous!
August 2007
- King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Movie Review
- As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes - New York Times
- Review: Cyclist's Training Bible
- Review: James Tiptree Jr, The Double Life of Alice B Sheldon
- Building a Custom Frame (Part 1)
- Review: Stardust
- Review: The Privilege of the Sword
- Review: Old Man's War
- Review: Glasshouse
July 2007
- Sunrise from Mt. Hamilton
- It's Captain Switzerland... er... SwitzerAmerica... er..
- Review: Avocet 700x28 Fasgrip Tires
- Review: Postively False
- Review: Pimsleur Italian
- Book Review: Lark and Wren
- Thoughts about the Tour de France
- Back from the Kiss of Death
- Mike's Trip Report
- Tour of the Alps 2007 Trip Report
- Tour of the Alps 2007 Photos (Edited)
- Roberto's pictures are now up...
- Mike pouts at the Bludenz Train Station.
- Wacky Hotel Room in Bludenz
- Timmelsjoch
- Lake on top of Fedadia
- Approaching Passo Gardena
- Allpenglow from Canazei
- Pouring Rain on Passo Costalunga
- Yes, we know our gender.
- Roberto on top of the world on Gavia
- Last 22 Hairpins up Stelvio
- View from Albula Pass descent
- View of Grimsel Pass from Furka Pass below Hotel Belvedere
- Mike & my brother on top of Grosse Scheidegg
- Rosenlaui Valley
- Riding towards Tannalp
- Initial Climb up to Melchsee-Frutt
- Back in Zurich
- You only hear from me when its bad news...
- Stuck in Canazei
June 2007
May 2007
- Review: Banjo Brothers Handlebar Bag
- Review: 1001 Nights of Snowfall and Other Fables
- Review: Raising The Bar
- Review: The Ghost Brigades
- Review: Fables In Exile, Vol 1-3
- Review: The Last Colony
- Review: Plan B 2.0
April 2007
- Review: Campagnolo Carbon Record Brake Levers
- Review: The No Asshole Rule
- Charity Rides aren't necessarily good for cycling
- Review: Dinotte Taillight
- Review: The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual
- Big Sur Trip
- Co-Motion provides new details
- How not to manage product defects
March 2007
- Marathon Pictures!
- Review: Shen Wei Dance Arts
- An explanation of the mortgage alphabet soup
- The high prices of plane tickets...
- Review: Rising Stars
- 26.2 in 4:30
- gtags 1.0 released
February 2007
- The 1.5% Real Return Estimate
- Phil teaches Emacs
- Beautiful Aptos Beach
- Turbo Tax 2007 Review
- No, I did not cheat...
- Review: Dreaming In Code
- Review: Ex Machina
- Review: Whistling Past Dixie
- Review: Nintendo Wii
January 2007
- Review: Jersey Boys
- Michael Pollan on Nutritionism
- Review: Pan's Labyrinth
- Scott Burns: Americans not that badly off
- China's Capitalistic Healthcare System
- Review: Ship of Fools
- Review: The Perfect Thing
- Review: Battlestar Galactica Mini-Series and Season One
- Nike+ Resolution
- Review: Battlestar Galactica Season Two
- Little Asia on the Hill - New York Times
- 2007 Book Reviews
- Review: Magic for Beginners
- Ramen Inventor Dies!
- The Queen's Classroom or JuuOu no Kyoushitsu Review
2006 295
December 2006
- Books of the Year
- Review: Veronica Mars Season 2
- Gapminder's Video on Global Poverty
- Review: MacTech magazine
- Review: The Way to Win
- New Wheels for the Fuji
- Review: The Long Tail
- Review: Rainbow's End, by Vernor Vinge
- Rotadent Review
- Nike+Ipod Review
- Guu vs PowerGel vs HammerGel
- The New York Times magazine about Philantropy
- Brad DeLong tears Alan Reynolds apart
- Review: Warped Passages, Unraveling the Mysteries of The Universe's Hidden Dimensions
- An article about Passive Investing
- I can tell that the end of the year is approaching...
- The Worst Investment Strategy
November 2006
- Lick Observatory In Sight!
- Enjoying Tea with Elinor on top of Mt. Hamilton
- Piaw & Sy on Mt. Hamilton
- Piaw and Lisa on Mt. Hamilton
- Review: Smallville Season Four
- Review: Making Globalization Work
- Edward Scissorhands Musical Review
- Review: Castle Waiting
- Greg Mankiw loses credibility
- A satisfying election...
- Turning off full site feed
- Review: Smallville Season 3
- Diversifying Away from Company Stock
October 2006
- Anecdotal data is very misleading
- Review of Prima Taste
- Review: Kingdom Coming, by Michelle Goldberg
- Dan Gilbert on Happiness
- The Omnivore's Dilemna
- Joseph Stiglitz @ Google
- Movie Review: MirrorMask
- San Jose Rock & Roll Half Marathon
- Fall bike parts inventory
- Review: The Polysyllabic Spree
- Neil Gaiman Talk @Google
- Pigeon Point 2006
September 2006
- Are human lives too short?
- Review: Smallville Season Two
- Wheelbuilding with the Park TS-2
- Guest Poster
- A Moment With You movie Review
- S&S couplers revisited
- Time to plug the gtags internship again
- Review: Smallville Season One
- My 15 Minutes of Fame
- Lisa shot this image while descending the cables...
- At the foot of the cables at Half-Dome
- Piaw & Lisa Enjoy the Sunrise on Half-Dome
- Rainbow at the Foot of Vernal Falls
- The Economist does an about face
- Product Endorsement: Tax Resources, Inc Audit Protection
- Ongoing Mac Mini Review Part IV
- Tanya & Lisa at Overlook & Canon
August 2006
- View of Montebello Road from last Wednesday Morning's Ride
- The wedding took place at the Greens Restaurant
- Congratulations to Christine & Tom for their wedding
- Video Review: Root of All Evil
- Sylvia Nasar & David Gruber discuss the unravelling of the Poincare Conjecture
- Review: Accelerando
- Exit Clov at Google
- Review: Tomorrow Happens
- Review: Neverwhere DVD
- Review: Wonder Woman: Second Genesis
- Book Review: Anansi Boys
- Noam Schreiber on The Pro Growth Progressive
- WSJ.com - Web Start-Ups Lure Executives At eBay, Yahoo
July 2006
- Movie Review: Big Fish
- Review: The Two Income Trap
- Review: A Long Way Down
- The Landis Case: Waiting for the B sample; Pereiro reluctantly poised to take jersey; Landis takes pass on Leno
- Another lameness about the Mac Mini
- Morning Ride up Montebello Road and Black Mountain
- Review: The Hallowed Hunt
- Mike Samuel tries the recumbent
- Matt tries a recumbent.
- Lisa tries a recumbent
- Cyclists descend Hwy 84 to La Honda
- Luck plays a major role in success
- Review: Trinity: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman
- "Why Conservatives Can't Govern" by Alan Wolfe
- Movie Review: Who Killed the Electric Car?
- Movie Review: Aeon Flux
- Larry Summers Visits Google
- Movie Review: American Splendor
- Book Review: The Paladin of Souls
- Book Review: The Undercover Economist
- Book Review: The Developers
- Book Review: The Curse of Chalion
- Matt Stanton and Katelyn on the fire road
- View of Almaden Valley from the dirt trail betwen Bohlman & Montevina
- Katelyn approaching the On Orbit intersection
- At the Intersection Bohlman Road and On Orbit
- Pharyngula: Noted without comment
- Mt Tam Hike July 2nd
- Superman Returns
- Princeton University - Link between income and happiness is mainly an illusion
- The Lonely American Just Got a Bit Lonelier - New York Times
- Mt. Tam Ride
- Manchester Public Urinal
- Manchester Mounted Police
- Cycle Response Unit
June 2006
- Packhorse versus SherpaVan
- Patterdale Rest Day
- Grasmere Rest Day
- Coast to Coast nominated 2nd best walk in the World
- Confusing places in Stedman's book
- Egton Bridge to Robin Hood's Bay
- Blakey Ridge to Egton Bridge
- Orton to Kirby Stephen
- Tales of the Slayers
- Pictures from today's Ride
- Shap to Orton
- Grasmere to Patterdale
- John Bogle interview podcast
- Tips for the Trip
- On British National Parks
- Interesting B&B notes (Coast to Coast)
- Quicken for Macintosh is an Unacceptable Product
- Coast to Coast Index
- I'm back!
- Equipment Recommendations
- Osmotherley to Blakey Ridge
- Group Photo at the Bay Hotel
- Robin Hood's Bay
- We arrive at the Coast!
- View of the North Sea through Wheat Fields from Hawkser
- The Hermitage in Little Beck Woods Nature Preserve
- Lisa climbs the 33% grade up from Grosmont
- The Stepping Stones at Egton Bridge
- Peter & Margaret Morris and Piaw at High Blakey House B&B
- Along the dismantled Iron Ore Track
- View along the Yorkshire Moors, National Park #3
- View from the Alec Falconer memorial bench
- Coast to Coast Completed
- Danby Wiske to Osthmotherley
- Richmond to Danby Wiske
- Lisa finds another horse to pet
- The Wheatfields came up to Waist High!
- Departure from Richmond
- Retro post: Patterdale to Shap
- Reeth to Richmond
- Keld to Reeth
- Richmond Castle Ruins
- On top of Richmond Castle looking at the Market Square
- Artist's Light on the way to Richmond
- Eric, Ray, Katie, and Piaw in front of the Black Bull pub in Reeth
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Lisa demonstrates that the Coast to Coast path is not for the obese
- Descending into Swaledale
- Piaw, Tan (the lamb), and Tracy (the owner) at the Tan Hill Inn
- Heading towards the Nine Standards
- So hot we had to use umbrellas as sun-shades
- Fields of Buttercups alongside Sheep Farms
- Limestone Scars in the Moors
- Shap Abbey
- Woods along Hawsewater Beck
- Dinghy Sailing on Ullswater
- Hellvelyn and Striding Edge
- Kirkby Stephen to Keld
- Open top double decker bus (Grasmere)
- Stonethwaite to Grasmere
- May 31st: Ennerdale Bridge to Stonethwaite
- Grasmere from Helm Crag
- Grasmere Lake
- Stonethwaite (Coast to Coast Day 3)
- Piaw heading down towards Hornister Mine
- Lisa near the top of Loft Beck (Coast to Coast Day 2)
- Lisa demonstrates use of the Trekking Umbrella
- Quick Post from Kirby Stephen
- Quick post from Orton
May 2006
- Scott Burns agrees with me on the new issue of I-bonds
- Day 1: Coast to Coast
- Nannycatch Beck
- Descending towards Raven Crag
- On the Coast trail, with Ireland (or is it the Isle of Man) in the background
- Gorse + St. Bees Beach
- Lisa enjoys the view of St. Bees beach
- The start of the Coast to Coast Trail
- Going on vacation...
- More Mac Woes
- Replacement Mac Mini
- Berry Creek Falls, Big Basin State Park, CA
- Greg Mankiw agrees with me
- Scott Burns is Disingenous again...
- Black Mountain Today
- The Paradox of Choice
- An interesting financial question
- Another AppleCare Success Story. NOT!
- Book Review: The Four Pillars of Investing
- Brad DeLong: Immigration is a good thing
- Lisa's Laptop
- A dead Mac
- This new issue of I-bonds might be a good buy
- There is no such thing as talent
- Review: Everything Bad is Good For You
- Is Mandantory Financial Education A Solution?
- New Computer
- It's easier to rig an election than to fool a slot machine
- California Poppies at Morro Bay State Park
April 2006
- My next desktop....
- My Home Computer is Dead
- Marooned in Realtime
- Being ill...
- Review: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
- Review: Alan Moore's Writing for Comics
- Head to Head: Montebell Trekking Umbrella versus Go-Lite Dome Umbrella
- Rainbow over San Antonio Park
- The Ownership Society is not a good deal
- Book Review: The Man Who Folded Himself
- Gladwell on Nassim Taleb
- Al Gore on the Climate Crisis
- Movie Review: Howl's Moving Castle
- My Endorsement: John Forester
- Conventional financial planning might be bad for your financial health
- The Redwoods on Steep Ravine
- Climbing out of Stintson Bach
- Lisa & Patti enjoy Stintson Beach
- Lisa on the Matt Davis Trail
- Review: The Cosmic Landscape
March 2006
- Review: Superman: Secret Identity
- 2006 Book Reviews
- Review: The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks
- Rebalancing a Portfolio is hard...
- Trouble comes in threes
- Review: Hiding in the Mirror
- More views from the road up Fremont Peak
- Views from the road to Fremont Peak
- Harvey Wong at the top of Fremont Peak
- More beautiful green hills
- Riding in the beautiful green hills of Hollister
- Snow on Serra Azul
- Saturday's Ride
- Piaw on Morgan Territory road
- Roberto Climbing Morgan Territory Road
- Ok, now I need a gtags intern
February 2006
- Review: Local Heroes, Kurt Busiek
- Review: What's the Matter with Kansas
- Figure skating: Sport or Art?
- Review: Shock Rockets
- Review: Akira
- President's Day Ride
- Snow on Skyline Blvd
- Those fluffy things are called clouds...
- Yet another Black Mountain Summit picture
- Snow on Black Mountain
- Einstein's Dreams
- Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith
- Dick & Donna Matthews
- Eric & Cynthia up Canada Road
- Riding along the farmlands of Morgan Hill/Gilroy
- "That's all folks!"
- Route-Sheet Bingo
- The Merchant Princes Trilogy (parts 1 & 2)
- West Old La Honda Road on Saturday
- The South Bay, Moffett Field, and Mountain View on a Clear Day
- Lisa & The Pacific on the Black Mountain Summit
- Silicon Valley and the East Bay Hills from Black Mountain
- View of San Francisco from Black Mountain
- Review: Coraline
- Two interesting articles in this week's New Yorker
- Review: Singularity Sky
January 2006
- Review: Unconventional Success
- West Old La Honda Road
- No, these are NOT natural rock formations
- View from Harkins Ridge Trail
- View of the Pacific from Windy Hill OSP
- Talking with Grant at the Rivendell Social 1/22/06
- Movie Review: Brothers Grimm
- My other 20% project
- A funny post on the Bush presidency
- Rivendell Social Ride #1
- Winning the Green Card Lottery
- Review: Serenity
- New Cell Phone
- Review: Bend it like Beckham
- Republicans are Evil: Part V
- Yajie gets her boots wet
- Review: Perfectly Legal, David Cay Johnston
- More Bike Mainteneance
- Waking Life
- Review: Veronica Mars, Season 1
- Vanguard on the 401(k) versus Roth 401(k) trade off
- Scott Burns reflects on what he's learnt
- Black Mountain, again
- Human beings are Bayesian thinkers
- The American Pika will soon be extinct
- Movie Review: Lost in Translation
- Movie Review: Batman Begins
- Ipod photo 60GB review
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December 2005
- Stereo Systems
- Excession, by Iain Banks
- Republicans are Evil Part IV
- Vehicle Hell
- Philip Pullman in The New Yorker
- Christmas Eve Steep Ravine/Matt Davis
- The start of a beautiful hike
- Larry finishes descending the ladder on Steep Ravine
- Along the Steep Ravine Trail
- Looking down into Stintson Beach
- Stintson Beach on Christmas Eve
- Stintson Beach
- Along the Matt Davis Trail
- The Dreamy, Misty Light of Christmas Eve
- A shaded view of the Pacific
- Matt Davis & Coast Trail Intersection
- Piaw & Larry
- View of San Francisco
- Courtesy of Larry Hosken
- Lone Tree & Santa Cruz Mountains
- Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
- Best books of 2005
- Brad de Long on why the last decade has been so good to investors
- 2006 prediction generator...
- The Dover Court Decision
- An eloquent essay on fantasy and childhood
- Cheryl & Steve Prothero at the Western Wheelers Holiday Party
- Ex-Googlers Blog
- Google blamed for jump in high tech pay
- Coast to Coast Trip Planning
- A full rainbow...
- 7 Hills of Saratoga
- 7 Hills of Saratoga Ride
- A little about you
- Billionaire Investors start paying attention to peak oil
- Yajie at Windy Hill Summit
- Artist's Light
- View of the Pacific from Windy Hill OSP
- The Beautiful South
- View from Kings Mountain Road
- Christian Overtones in Narnia
- View of the beach from Highway 1 along the San Gregorio Coast
- Tanya makes it to the coast.
- Free WiFi coming in Sunnyvale!
- Cultural Controversy in "Memoirs of a Geisha"
- British Walking Series: Coast to Coast Path
- View from the top of the PG&E trail
- First rain cape ride...
- Richard Thompson Live
November 2005
- The Coast to Coast Walk
- Fortune on Andrew Grove as a manager
- My favorite view of Mountain View.
- Black Mountain Summit
- Black Mountain
- Yes, it was this cold in Tahoe.
- Another view of Lake Tahoe from Kings Beach
- Lake Tahoe from Kings Beach
- Fantastic Voyage: The Science Behind Radical Life Extension, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman
- I am in awe...
- Slate on Cycling in LA
- View from Black Mountain
- Why I'm not rich and famous
- Piaw & Lisa attending a wedding dinner
- The perils of wearing Google stuff in public
- Tossing out my dress shoes...
- 26" wheels versus 700c wheels
- Are you happy now, Christine?
- Buffy: The Chosen Collection
- Hwy 9, Skyline, and Black Road
- At the Lexington Reservoir, around 10:00am.
- Tanya enjoys the view
- Another view of Big Sur from Skyline Blvd, this time at 9:30am
- View of the Golden Gate Bridge from Alcatraz
- Questions from someone looking for
- Perils of having blog someones been
- Take that seattle ites sorry scarlet
- Scott burns on retirement i definitely
- Headphones
- View of santa cruz pier from boardwalk
- View of monterey bay big sur from top
- More riding up old la honda down 84 up
- My favorite halloween picture
- Scott burns predicts recession and i
October 2005
- Scott adams starts blogging and it is
- To best of our knowledge interviews
- Review: Freakonomics
- Climbing black mountain
- Family pix on surrey
- Riding surrey at monterey
- View from overlook on waterfall trail
- Big sur roadside view
- Hidden order economics of everyday
- Talent myth gladwell came to give talk
- Ok this takes cake mixing of apple
- Republicans are evil part iii well u
- List of 2005 Book Reviews
- John varley reader john varleys recent
- Ran into neil julie did it in 130
- Silicon valley shrouded in fog
- Climbing out of foggy silicon valley
- Shyam on top of black mountain
- Ride to coast leaving my house around
- Black mountain hike i hiked up black
- Future of success by robert reich this
- Drawing of dark by tim powers i first
- I wore out pair of cycling glove for
- Iron sunrise charles stross stross is
- Piaws home page revived its quite bit
- Buffy soundtrack surprisingly good
- A bit of Cycling History
- Now i feel really cool
- Deepness in sky prequel to fire upon
- Orson scott card raves about serenity
- Religious socities are worse off many
- Which serenity character are you
- Bill bushnells pictures from saturdays
- Adams curse by bryan sykes sykes is
- Neil gaiman has lunch with members of
- Shaking hands with dream king
September 2005
- Neil gaiman right piaw left after
- Advanced you scored 92 beginner 92
- Cheating of america charles lewis so
- Distant soil 2 ascendant by colleen
- Orbiter warren ellis and colleen doran
- Search by john battelle i was eager to
- My 20 project makes new york times
- Ok now that ive hiked half dome i dont
- First view of half dome along trail
- Piaw after 8
- View from top of half dome el capitan
- Come to yosemite national park
- Patri provides more details on my 20
- Christine davis blog yes scarlet i
- Now i can talk about it every so often
- Handling boat in evening near angel
- Lea enjoying herself as she maneuvers
- Years best science fiction 22nd annual
- Rhythm section quick read in la femme
- Heres original version of picture
- This is why im taking so long to
- Wright exit strategy this is great
- Castle waiting best of recent graphic
- Distant soil colleen doran started
- Batman child of dreams kia asamiya
- Which dd character are you courtesy
- Constantine ok i guess i might as well
- Hanging out with dream king interviews
- Astonishing x men gifted joss wheldon
- Republicans are evil part ii howard
- Time up old la honda road 2455
- What great trip when new york times
- Chain replacement my chain is worn out
- Difference between liberals and
August 2005
- Paul graham makes republican mistake 1
- Flight vol 2 not nearly as good as
- Tough ride went on western wheelers
- Dealers of lightning michael hiltzik
- Google driving up cost of silicon
- Thoughts about canon 5d with full
- Lacing new rear wheel
- Thomas marsten
- Cyclists enjoy sunrise from jeanne
- Bob
- Self portrait piaw lisa and tandem aka
- Piaw 112468359830442680
- San antonio valley shrouded with fog
- Piaw 21
- Flight vol 1 anthology of short comic
- Fire upon deep vernor vinge i first
- Planning next trip next trip is likely
- Amy platts blog
- Climate crash abrupt climate change
- At granite portions of ten lakes hike
- At top of climb
- Stream feeding into main lake
- Second highest of ten lakes
- Piaw
- Evening reflection on first of ten
- Ridges from climb up from ten lakes
- Lisa enjoys fields of flowers on ten
- Fooled by randomness by nassim
- Why i am die hard canon loyalist after
- Fabulous joss wheldon interview you
- Ss couplers
July 2005
- Blink by malcom gladwell interesting
- More thoughts on american trade off
- Krugman points out american trade off
- One of friedmans better columns but we
- Shimanos new generator hub is dreamy
- Mammoth by john varley another book
- Difference between you and joe sixpack
- Gut south yea verily i say gut south
- I was right i was absolutely right
- Ill stop complaining about how
- Disaster in making with those credits
- Why i will never be electrician i
- Bottom bracket creak for last few
- Tour of alps trip report its not
- No more sd500 it got smashed on
- Lea larry piaw dan
- Dan hill
- Vianna lea larry
- Piaw describes something amusing
- Eric case
- Dan stands with golden gate bridge
- Dan
- Vianna
- Eric case behind wheel
- 10 speed chains are evil why use
- Initial tour of alps proposal
- Tour of alps photos mike samuel steve
June 2005
- Trains in zurich are very bicycle
- After many wrong turns i make it to
- Zooglers 17
- Zooglers
- Foosball is always welcome
- Zurich googlers
- More zurich googlers
- Friendly faces at zurich google office
- Rob
- Ken lee
- James porter western wheelers
- Long emergency james howard kunstler
- Another day anothe stoker i took
- Sequioa century stats 105 miles door
- Wall street journal on class mobility
- Vanguard re opens energy fund it was
- Time travelers wife audrey
- Idlewild by nick sagan yes hes son of
May 2005
- World is flat by thomas friedman as
- Steve
- Western wheelers gather for ride
- My view on most climbs desperately
- Climbing climbing climbing
- Mikhail climbing kings ridge road
- View of ocean from kings ridge road
- Cheryl prothero climbing kings ridge
- Mike samuel enjoying nap while
- Convocation of cows on tinbarn road
- Steve purcell admires dog carrier
- View from seaview road
- Mike pauses for moment to look at view
- View from top of meyers grade
- Dinner at negris 23
- Dinner at negris
- Mike samuel
- Lyresa
- Cyclists climbing coleman valley road
- View from top of coleman v 111690990793736285
- Cheryl prothero
- View from top of coleman valley road 23
- Steve prothero
- View from top of coleman valley road
- New bike 1500
- Fitting by terry shaw 100
- Campsite at cassini ranch for 2 days
- Keeping up with lyresa
- Bill bushnell climbing little knoll up
- Chris hill of western wheelers
- View of coast from highway 1
- View of san francisco bay on way up mt
- View from top of mt
- Rivendell reader 35 ultimate destiny
- I dont believe it if youre rich you
- Scott burns endorses my position on i
- Why we buy by paco underhill great
- Cavedwaller by dorothy allison i wont
- Ee bonds go into fixed rates this
- Collapse how societies choose to fail
- Shimano touts dual control levers do
- Joe
- Dick
- Joe enjoying view after brisk descent
- Springtime in california desert
- Fields of yellow lavendar and green on
- Joe gross enjoying view just before
- Western wheelers taking break at rest
- Mike fixing his second flat of day
- 3 of us at end
April 2005
- I am24republican
- Back to waterbottles i experimented
- Booty from cupertino bikes swap meet
- Tripel karmeliet beer for non beer
- Never let me go kazuo ishiguros new
- Vanguard reduces hurdle for admiral
- Fuji after all adjustments replaced
- Totoro
- Me with my fuji team sl steve prothero
- Fantastic new restaurant scoop lisa i
- Joining svbc as life member
- Lyras oxford set in oxford of his dark
- Stress test on fuji did 51 mile ride
- Car politics my suspicions are true
- Quote from Alan Moore
March 2005
- Fitting fuji id already fitted bike as
- Amber spyglass book iii of his dark
- Subtle knife book 2 of his dark
- Another pleasant surprise on fuji team
- Golden compass book one of his dark
- First ride on fuji team sl 8 grade
- First ride on fuji team sl after years
- Elfenland elfengold what great game
- Spring trip report two of us were
- My ultralight showed up
- Take quiz at dicepool
- Socialized medicine works surveys by
- Silver spike i should really have read
February 2005
- Shadow games continuing on my black
- White rose what greater of two evils
- Shadows linger book 2 of black company
- Black company inspired by black
- International bond funds
- 80 people in western wheelers morgan
- Monk and riddle randy komisar writes
- On way to steamboat springs colorado
- Piaw
- Lisa near stinson beach
- View from top of matt davis trail