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Communities and stuff

I was in National Harbor, Maryland last week for Sun's sales meeting and technical training. It was a very long week with a lot of old friends but also some very good content. I helped with sessions that talked about everything from Project Darkstar to the Open Solaris Web Stack project. We had some amazing presenters and terrific content for the systems engineers from all over the Americas.

The end of the week was a session that included a panel discussion with a Snowman , a Doctor and a Mink . It was a lot of fun getting to lead a discussion with these guys about technology, architecture and open source. And yes, those are all hockey jerseys and mine does say "Sokol" in Cyrillic letters for the Sokol-Kiev hockey team.

Posted at 01:53AM Aug 13, 2008 by bs in Web.next  | 

Summertime, not so much in the city

I've been trying to follow Fausto Coppi's advice: "Ride a bike, ride a bike, ride a bike", which isn't all that different than Eddy Merckx's advide: "Ride lots". It's sometimes tough to follow their advice, but I've had some good motivation watching Le Tour de France this month. I think I actually had withdrawal issues afterwards, not having a new stage to watch when I got home. I didn't have high expections for the Tour this year, but it was pretty exciting - lots of changes in the yellow jersey, excitement in the mountains and a winner that could have changed until the very last stage.

After the Tour was over, I needed to focus on my big ride for the summer. This was my fifth time riding in the Princeton Event . I've chosen the century route every time and finished most of time, except when we got lost and when it was nearly 100 degrees and 100 percent humidity. It's a good, mostly flat course and goes through some beautiful farm and horse country. We had a little rain at the start but was a gorgeous summer day.

Now that the big event is done, I can get back to mountain biking and enjoy myself for the rest of the summer but not so much in the city!

Posted at 01:24AM Aug 13, 2008 by bs in Cycling  |