Tempus Fugit

Maybe I should use this technique? update

If you followed the 2006 Tour de France or Floyd ,or you weren’t living under a rock, you’ve probabley heard about the doping alligations and probably think the issue is all over, he’s guilty (according to the press) and that it’s old news.

I picked up a Cycling magazine the other day to learn it’s far from over. The challenge and hearings are just heating up. Did you know that there still has not been a tour winner declared and that no prize money has been awarded pending the outcome of the hearings?  Check out the other side of the story, the one the press really has been ignoring.

floydlandis.com

FLOYD LANDIS HEARING WEB STREAMING INFORMATION May 14th, 2007 Malibu, Ca., May 14, 2007 – The American Arbitration Association – North American Court of Arbitration for Sport will convene today to hear the case of the United States Anti-Doping Agency vs. Floyd Landis. Scheduled to run from May 14-23, the proceedings will be heard each day form 9:30am-5:00pm PST. Landis, the 2006 Tour de France champion, has invoked for the first time a rule of the American Arbitration Association – the legal body that presides over athlete doping cases – that allows for athletes contesting doping charges to request that their hearing be made open to the public.

Technorati Tags: Floyd Landis, Tour de France, doping

Wow, is this stuff wicked!

I turned of the Akismet spam filter for a few minutes while I upgraded my WordPress blog to 2.2. In those few minutes some automated system was able to squeeze in 4 spam comments to my low traffic site. What happens to popular sites?

Sidenote: America’c Cup yacht race is warming up as the Louis Vuitton Finals get under way on June 1. I’ll be watching live on TSN Broadband.

32nd America’s Cup Official Website

All three teams training
All three teams remaining in competition at the 32nd America’s Cup were on the water training on Wednesday afternoon. The two Luna Rossa Challenge boats sailed together, while Emirates Team New Zealand and Alinghi had two races against each other.
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Bug Cloud

Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo

We’re at the lake for an impromptu vacation and as is typical for the first could of weekends there are a few bugs. Well, actually, there are more that a few bugs, I’d say there are billions of bugs!

Thankfully, they don’t bite but they are thick around the waters edge so there is not too much hanging around the dock right now. This isn’t too much of a problem as it’s misty/raining most of the time so far.

I think today will be a day for doing some tree transplanting.

The sign in the Kenora Safeway

Open in 7 days.

Staff are training furiously, good stuff!

It was a dark and stormy night…
The late night drive to the lake was highlighted by non-stop lightening and intermittant heavy rain. Not too much different today. We’re in Kenora shopping for something to do and picking up some movies.
The wireless is broken or messed up but the cable connection to the net is still working. I think a nap is a very good possibility.
- I’m just hanging out in the car, working and playing. Perhaps, nap… Zzzz… Zzzz… Zzzz.

I’m at home, alone. Shirley is working, Scott is gone. It’s quiet, and the morning is almost gone. I’ve had many cups of coffee as I work on a building a presentation for Monday.

I have the bulk of the presentation material and I’m just creating two custom slides. How long can it take? Longer that I’d like. One slide has a lot of animation. Yeah, I know, not a good move for a presentation, but it should work and be a lot of fun.

The harder one has been lifting a mySpace video in FLV format and converting it to something I can put into Powerpoint. Well, after 3 hrs of hacking around and getting video with no audio, audio with no video and video with audio that sounds like the chipmunks, and getting some help from a friend I bought some FLV to AVI software. Free is not always better and the demo version worked for me quick & easy. So, it’s a company expense because this was all about a company presentations.

Technorati Tags: mySpace, FLV, AVI, FLV to AVI

Mandi & Scott
Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo.

Scott’s birthday weekend had an extra special surprise when Mandi, her sisters and parents arrived at the lake to celebrate with us. We all had a great time chatting, eating, walking the trail and relaxing around the fireplace.

After a very nice afternoon with Mandi, her sisters and parents we had supper and birthday cake and then Scott opened his presents. It was a wonderful day. After dark Eric, Dez, Scott, Mom & I headed over to the neighbors on the west side of the point where it was less windy to launch some fireworks.
This was a first for all of us, and a first for us at the lake and we all had a great time. I think a new tradition has been born, fireworks at the lake to celebrate your birthday, There are already plans for the next “event”.

This morning Eric, Dez, Scott and I went hunting for treasure.  Dez found the first two, Eric found three more, I found a couple to save myself some $s and unfortunately, Scott didn’t fine any. Good thing it’s his birthday! 

Happy Birthday Scott!