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Severe focused blunt force trauma. That’s how my orthopedist described what caused my fracture. Apparently I broke it in an unusual location where the clavicle is in fact much thicker and closer to the center of my chest. He thinks I don’t need surgery, but I’ll find out for sure next week […]

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I’ve been thinking about Google a lot recently and how my personal online life is dominated by Google tools. The list is impressive. Here are the Google tools I use most:

Search - Google.com
Google Toolbar for IE and Firefox
GBookmarks for Firefox
Google Apps for your Domain for brevoort.com (GMail, Docs and Spreadsheets, Calender, GTalk)
Google Reader […]

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When I crashed yesterday I wasn’t of the presence of mind to stop my GPS. Here’s the official record of my travels:

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Today was the last race of the Winter Park Mountain Bike series, the King of the Rockies. This race is a classic running annually since that late 80’s and that VeloNews has ranked as one of the top five mountain bike race courses in the world. In 1999 after winning his first Tour […]

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I have yet to lay my hands on an iPhone… I’m a little scared that I’d want one too much, and I’m not willing to go cabbage patch kids on it. This is really cool though. I use Meebo regularly; it’s a client-less, AJAX IM aggregator. In short time, it looks like […]

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I logged onto LinkedIn last night and one particular network update caught my eye. My friend Pete, who several years ago decided to switch gears, give up the IT salary and become a teacher. He went back to school meanwhile paying the bills doing freelance design/development work. So in my network updates […]

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Today marks the first time I pre-rode a course at Winter Park and did not get lost! Glorious! I planned to get up there super early, but Jeanie was laid up pretty good after her triathlon yesterday. She felt sick the night before and even worse the morning of, but still did […]

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Today was the first chance I had to check out Google Mashup Editor since it was released into beta two and a half months ago. I was disappointed to find that Google limited the number beta testers and has declared the Beta group “full” so I signed up to be notified when “spots are […]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about this blog recently, that is instead of writing new posts! First, I wasn’t happy with the presentation. Today I replaced my current WordPress theme with Cutline. It’s much cleaner. What do you think?
Secondly, when I first decided to begin a blog, I didn’t have a […]

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This is a public service announcement. Apparently the Forest Service is considering banning bikes from the Continental Divide Trail (CTD). The banishment from this HUGE trail would be devastating to the cycling community and is truly a national issue.
Here’s a link to the directive. Also here is a very easy […]

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