Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping, and always have a mountain in life to climb
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The following picture is from the front of a bike store in Peoria IL where wife and son are shopping.
From the Greenbird blog was the following post.
As land yacht pilots from all over the world gathered for this renowned land sailing event, the Greenbird team went for another land speed world record attempt – AND SMASHED IT!! This is where the record of 116 mph was set ten years ago, and on March 26, 2009, British engineer and land yacht sailor Richard Jenkins recorded a speed of 126.1 mph.
The surface at Ivanpah Dry Lake in California, 40 miles south of Las Vegas, and the winds came together to produce ideal conditions.
Read about how they set the record in California on the blog >>
http://icehot.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-best-ubuntu-video-editors/ Check out this post to find out details on a group of video editors, while they have instructions for loading with Ubuntu, they are available on multiple distros and some even multiple platforms.
Joomla Developer’s Toolbox
from Smashing Magazine by Steven Snell
By Steven Snell
Joomla is a popular free and open-source content management system (CMS) that can be used to power all kinds of websites. After we published developer’s toolboxes for a variety of other CMS’, many readers requested a collection of resources for Joomla users and developers, so here it is. Joomla grew out of the Mambo CMS and has since built a large and loyal group of users, much like the other popular open-source options. What this means for users and developers is that there is a wealth of information and resources available, and in this post we’ll take a look at many of the best.
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Adobe PDF is the best format for sharing documents because they are compact, the formatting is preserved and most computers / mobile devices / ebook readers can easily handle PDF files. Here you’ll learn how to do just about everything with Adobe PDF files without Adobe Acrobat.
Karl Bacon was a quiet guy who never wanted much of a fuss. So when he died last month at 98, he almost slipped away from us without being noticed.
And that just wouldn’t have been right.
Bacon was a Silicon Valley inventor who did as much for the business of laughs, squeals and butterflies in the stomach as Bill Hewlett and David Packard did for the test instrument business, or Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore did for the business of computerizing almost every aspect of our everyday lives.
Like what? Like building with his partner Danny the Dragon at San Jose’s Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, among other things — which I’ll get to.