The questions asked what we think of TV, and honestly I don’t know much about it, because I watch zero hours per week. Every time I peek at TV it’s worse than when I last looked, so I don’t spend any time considering it.

Of course, we should not be surprised that Nielsen shy away from telling the paymasters that the entire medium is turning people off, DVR or no DVR.

Lisa and I are competing in a triathlon in May. It’s a significant challenge for both us - much harder than the century ride we completed in 2007. We hope you’ll support our fund raising for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and make a donation here.

I’m experimenting with Mint and I have extensive experience using Quicken, and am impressed with how much better mint seems compared to the equivalent Intuit effort (Quicken Beam)

It’s useful to note how Mint has achieved an end run around an incumbent. Intuit is too dependent on sales of their packaged software and have a hard time launching free online apps that cannibalize their sales.

Anyway, the interesting question is the choice Mint made to publish (sell?) their anonymized data. I can imagine sitting in the CEO chair and facing the choice of whether to publish this, risking the ire of the user base, or keep it private. At ClickTracks when faced with a similar choice we decided to keep the data private. We made it a feature that the customers data belongs to them. That looks like the wrong choice with something like Mint, even though the data is more sensitive.

The world has changed a lot in the past 5 years, and it looks like users are perfectly OK with their anonymous, aggregated data being published.

I am not morally opposed to spam; it’s become a reality of modern life that just won’t go away. Like most people, I’ve learned to live with it. While some may argue that it harms a companies’ reputation, I find it’s largely background noise. I do, however, want a way to get off the list. My spam filters do a good job with the enhancement offers but they’re less good at dealing with rare topics like contract iPhone developers in Elbonia.

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In my experience, the error is prevalent among people who measure things frequently, such as contractors or furniture makers. I suppose they say ‘length, width, depth and breadth’ and assume that all dimension names end in ‘th’.

The surprising thing is the way the error has taken off over the past decade, spreading like a virus. I estimate that a minority of people still say it correctly. They must have corrected their pronunciation to match that they were hearing frequently. Thus the mistake is passed from person to person and quickly looks like an epidemic.

I fear that within a decade dictionaries will be forced to adopt the error as it’s use will be too common to ignore.

At least it will go on record that I fougth it.

We started out at the same time, and finished within a few minutes of each other I was very happy with my final time of 5 hours 40 minutes. I had a good day, pacing with some fast guys and I only dropped at the final 2 mile climb to Spooner.

The weather was perfect - slightly cool but sunny and with lots of snow still visible on the peaks.

I saw several people riding the 100 mile version on unicycles:

Apologies for the poor image quality. It was taken with my iphone while I was riding.

The ride stops were well organized with great food. Italian goodies at the Calfee factory, and they showed off their bamboo bikes. Crepes and pies at Gizditch Ranch.

My overall time was a disaster. I was very slow at the start, didn’t ride in a group much, took way too long at the rest stops chatting with people and 10 miles from the end I witnessed a crash and stopped to administer first aid.

It was the first time I’d ridden over the hill, and I babied my strained knee. I took Mountain Charley Road, knowing it’s one of the hills I’ll cover in the Santa Cruz Mountains Challenge, assuming I feel strong enough to tackle it. Reaching the upper sections of the road I was amazed by this structure

It turns out it’s a residence. Some careful Googling uncovered a fascinating story about this Santa Cruz mountains landmark