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20080411 Friday April 11, 2008
Skate: Fail! Hockey

Long, long, ago, I used to play roller hockey with Joe, Rama and Will.  We played in the parking lots between Sun's Mountain View buildings (now all Google buildings).  Eventually I moved to ice hockey and hadn't touched the roller gear in years.  This week my wife's cousin needed a sub on his roller hockey team.  Not wanting to break my ankle trying to do an ice stop, I laced up the old pair and headed down the street with my dog running along side.  I took a few test turns, and then *snap* - I was on my butt.  Fortunately, it was not my ankle, but the skate itself.  The entire bottom half of the skate just broke off.  It was a cheap, plastic boot, not leather, and I guess we now know the lifespan of a cheap roller hockey skate.

The good news is I had two pairs of skates (outdoors and indoors) so I was still able to play since the game was indoors.

Broken skate

 

Broken skate 

 


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20080128 Monday January 28, 2008
Be Careful What You First Name Your Blog Entry Humor

Be careful what you first name your blog entry.  When Roller saves your entry for the first time it creates the Permalink URL from the blog title.  This URL never changes, even if you change the blog entry's title.

I can't count the number of times I've had a spelling error, or some other issue, that's preserved for all time in the Permalink.

Take this blog, for example.  It started off with a much different concept.  You'll have to examine the Permalink to see what it was.

Now if anyone diggs or slashdots this entry (no real chance of that) that's the URL people are going to see. :)


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