http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress We know it's wrong — but we're gonna do it anyway. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:58:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK, so I didn't tackle the software update. So sue me. After spending the morning IM-wrestling with tech support, an experience for which "Brazil" only partially prepared me, I decided I was approaching this whole site-repair thing from the wrong angle. So instead of risking the destruction of two years' worth ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4248 OK, boys and girls, we're gonna try a software update bright and early tomorrow morning, see if we can flush a few of the gremlins out of this here WordPress blog, which lately seems to demand optimization and/or repair of its tables on a disturbingly regular basis. If worse comes to ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4240 Yay! We've had our first multivehicle pileup of the winter driving season. It wasn't especially massive — only 34 vehicles, including four semis, and 12 people hospitalized, just two of them in serious condition. Still, way to go, guys. Keep speeding and hugging that bumper in front of you, regardless of ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4235 Judas Priest. Today's Superprestige cyclo-cross in Hamme-Zogge looked like a cross-country run through an open sewer in Hell. If you missed the live streaming video, you can catch an edited recap at the series website. It's worth watching, believe me. One of the running sections took a minute-fifteen to cover, and ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4228 [caption id="attachment_4225" align="alignright" width="282" caption="Miss Mia Sopaipilla contemplates a dreary future."][/caption] Some of those tasty middle-class gigs that went away during The Great Recession aren't coming back, says Kevin G. Hall at McClatchy. It's not exactly news — the author of the report cited, MIT economist David Autor, says the trend has ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4223 If I didn't have to work weekends I'd be up in Fort Collins today and tomorrow, spectating at the New Belgium Cup. But I do, so I'm not. If you're in the same boat you can catch the action live via streaming video over at VeloNews.com. • Late update: Jesus, these guys suck. ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4214 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="384" caption="Nearly three decades old, covered with maple boogers, leaves and acid rain ... and it still runs."][/caption] Wow. Color me amazed. I hear that the temps are dipping down to 19 tonight and I think, "Hm, probably be smart to run the ’83 Toyota in for a ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4208 Thanks to all of you who — without a single bit of prodding by me — contributed dollars or tools to Brian Gravestock's Bike Clinic Too. Your example caused me to haul a couple of beat-up old bicycles, soon to be parts donors, down to Old Town today. Well, OK, I ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4203 One of the Old Town Bike Shop wrenches scored some nice ink in today's Colorado Springs Independent, the local alt-weekly. When he's not puzzling over one of my beaters, Brian Gravestock spends a couple days each week refurbishing donated bikes for the homeless, with the help of three volunteers and two ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4194 [caption id="attachment_4192" align="alignright" width="223" caption="Blue skies (not) smiling at me."][/caption] That's the last of the blue skies around here for a bit. The temperature just dropped like a poisoned pigeon, Herself reports that she is driving home from Denver in a snowstorm and the forecast calls for rain and perhaps an ... http://maddogmedia.com/wordpress/?p=4189