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Executive Summary / TLDR version: After a great 15 years I’m leaving Microsoft– my last day at the company is Friday September 14, 2012! Long and rambling version: Just over 15 years ago (June 30, 1997) I moved to Seattle to come work at …
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Thanks to the increased US television coverage of cycling events like the Tour de France, (due in no small part to the recent decade-long domination of that event by a certain Texan named Lance Armstrong) more Americans than ever before know at least a little …
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I recently overheard a friend complaining about how frustrated he was that there wasn’t better coverage of the Giro D’Italia on television in the US. I agreed, but added the perspective of someone who is simply glad to be able to get any news about …
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For the past few months, I’ve been keeping an eye out for a new commuter bicycle / winter training bike. As much as I dislike riding my bike in the crappy Seattle winter weather, I hate being fat and out of shape even more. And …
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I’m on the lookout for a new bicycle. The mission: find what bicycle racers in the Pacific Northwest call a “rain bike” – something to ride during the eternal gloomy wet months, a bike intentionally sacrificed to the rain gods. And I do mean sacrifice. …