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Daily Digest for Thursday, Jun 21, 2001

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First ride in... 5 years!

I just took possession of a bike I’m considering buying from my best friend - a Haro Impulse mountain bike, circa 1996. Of course, I couldn’t resist - a couple hours later (just now) I took it out for a spin. MAN am I out of shape! :(

Ride #1: A Cautionary Tale

Ok, so, having really learned nothing from my first venture out on the Green Machine (affectionately monikered by it’s current owner), I got the bike home last night and took it out for another jaunt. This one was a slightly longer trek - about 5 miles, all in the name of filling up the tires. The filling station down the street from me only had the for-pay ($0.50) air pumps, and I wasn’t about to pay for air.

"Shared" Development Process?

Sean Gallagher on Microsoft’s SDP: “Bill Gates said that Microsoft would still be the one to “productize” anything that comes out of the SDP. In other words, Microsoft would consume the brainpower of its clients, and sell it back to them as software and services.”