Jun 24 2007

New bike Monday

I got a phone call yesterday that my new bike I ordered came in. Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to pick it up until Monday. It is a Trek 1500 Discovery Edition (sponsored by the Discovery Channel for the marathon). The bike is an aluminum frame and has carbon fiber forks. Personally, I like the idea of having a complete Shimano drivetrain. That’s something I’ve never had on a bike before. I know it isn’t the best drivetrain components that they make, but it way better than anything that I’m used to.

For more information about the bike, visit Trek’s site on it at: http://www2.trekbikes.com/bikes/bike.php?bikeid=1440000&f=3. When you look at the site, be sure to note the differences in the form of the Discovery Edition and the standard edition of the 1500. You can easily see some differences just by changing the image colour.

Here’s a picture of the new bike (click to enlarge):
Trek 1500 Discovery Edition

Let me know what you think. 🙂

|:| Zach |:|

Jun 21 2007

Which flavour to choose?

Well, most of you probably know that I’m a Linux freak, and personally prefer Gentoo over any other flavour (aka distribution or distro for short). Considering there are a huge amount of different tastes and preferences out there, there are, consequently, a huge amount of flavours from which to choose. I recently found these really funny images–in the style of those motivational posters–that poke fun at some of the heavy-hitting distros. Apparently this guy (the creator of the images) doesn’t really care for any of the major flavours. Anyway, I just thought they were funny. 🙂

Click each image to show a larger version.

Caldera Linux

Debian Linux

Fedora Linux

Gentoo Linux

Mandrake or Mandriva Linux

Redhat Linux

Slackware Linux

Ubuntu Linux

If you don’t get the jokes on any of them, just comment and I will try to explain them. 🙂

|:| Zach |:|

Jun 21 2007

FLV Player is back

Well it seems like I’m limited to making one new button for the sidebar per day. I decided that the one that needed to be brought back the quickest was the FLV Player. Since so many people like to download the video clips from the Z-Issue, it only makes sense to have the link to the good FLV Player. 🙂

|:| Zach |:|