Google Reader - Sharing Following.

LinkedIn - great for professionally networking.
Facebook - Great for socially networking, light information.
Twitter - Still trying to find other uses than following Celebrities.
Google reader - Great for gathering related information on a daily basis.

I have been using Google Reader for a while now as a mass information source, kinda like a big pile of your favourite magazines - it's  a one stop way to follow a lot of diffeent blogs and streams of content rich information. One of the main features of Google Reader is it can be very visual, it downloads images in the news streams with text where needed (Facebook and Twitter do not do this, and following streams on Flicker, is pretty much images only). Google Reader is also very flexible, it will Report on most websites and integrates with many seamlessly. Since I read a lot of design, fashion, architecture blogs which are image rich, Google reader works out great.

Then about a month ago, I found the "sharing feature"
This allows you to share your favourite articles with other Google Reader users. WICKED!. Also with this it allows you to Follow other users, kinda twitter style. So it starts to build a community, that way I can see what other subjects / articles my other Design friends note that are of interest. Having many eyes in the design world is great and I guess the Share and Follow aspects are building comunity just like Twitter does.

SO If this sounds appealing to you, I suggest you look it up here

Anyone can check out my stream of shared articles here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/jbucky1

Graeme Obree dumps hour record plans

Bummer

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/graeme-obree-dumps-hour-record-plans-23985

The IT Crowd

Just recently got addicted to this series called The IT Crowd, funny shit alright. A series that started a few years back in the UK, now available on Netflix.

Award-winning sitcom from Graham Linehan. Banished from the ivory towers of Reynholm Industries, the IT crowd lurk below ground, avoiding work and social contact in equal measure...

Are we not men? and Tramps like us are killer episodes.... well worth checking out.

wish I was in the UK so I can watch this new show: CHAOS LABORATORIES

New blog for bike info / cycle parts and so forth

www.circle-360.blogspot.com

bike parts
reviews
product info

shoulders, yup theres more

following on... yesterday I had an MRI on my shoulder, today my doctor called an told me I had separated my acromioclavicular or AC joint in the top of my shoulder with swelling & tissue damage to a fairly sever extent but with no complications,  apparently this is common in impact sports and takes time to heal.  It will take 5-6 weeks to fully heal, but after a few weeks I can ride my road bike, if I fall during this time, it will be very bad. 

This is a better situation than what was thought to be rotator cuff damage, which could have required surgery.

 AC joint is shown in the upper right

McOver the handle bars crashtastic fun.

Last Monday signified the start of a long time off the bike for me.
The last Short Track Mountain Bike race of the season, as last year; the last race is well wicked, at the end of the night a planned team relay, podium prices and general mayhem.
My night on the other hand got cut a tad short, in the warm up rides I managed to crash hard, land all my weight on my right shoulder and send myself to the Hospital Emergency Room for x-rays. Thanks to my friend Joel and his onhand trusty Subaru, I made it to the emergency room in one piece and very quickly. After the First Aiders at the race had looked at me, it was almost certain that I had broken a bone in my shoulder, x-rays showed no breaks. Intense pain and lack of motion in particular areas of my shoulder , lead to only one thing, rotator cuff damage.
With a good prescription for Vicodin and paracetamol I was sent home, arm in sling and an appointment for a doc visit in a few weeks to evaluate the damage after all the inflammation goes down. If all goes well, no surgery will be needed, if the lack of motion and tears are deemed bad enough, I may be under the knife in a few weeks.
At the end of the day it will be 4-6 weeks before I can ride my bike outside, if all goes good it will be 3 weeks till I can ride inside on a stationary trainer, where I do not have to put any force on my arm/ shoulder.

Needless to say, the bike is pretty buggered up, bent brake lever and two pretty much well destroyed wheels.

oh well...

high speed crash on dirt, could have been much worse, high speed crash on concrete for example !

STXC (Short track cross country) July 6th

A friend took this picture, but of course i'm only at the liftoff of my air journey- I think it's pretty good snap, this was taken over the finish line. This is a cross country mountain bike race for about 30mins. and for me it's one gear, no bloody shock absorbers. There is only one category for single gear which means you get a field of really fast people. For me finishing around 30th out of 60 is good. I'm working on getting better, mainly my bike handling, cornering, honing in on my gear ratio and so forth, my fitness is there, but my lines and familiarity of a single gear is not. It can only get better I hope!

STXC June 29th

do I look happy, do i fuk. this is the look of being over geared at the top of a hill.
Short Track Cross Country - STXC - Monday nights @ PIR
bloody sure that 16tooth cog's getting changed for a 17 bugger.

New kona SS Cross bike

Hot off the press, Kona Major One - same Scandium frame as the geared major for a sick ride. Available as a frameset. Color, yeah um, not so sure i'm down with it.