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Early videos of Jax
Doug posted in Pets on August 28th, 2009
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Rupert’s best friend is a dog named Jax. He’s a super great dog, and now almost three. But I took this video shortly after Travis brought him home, and just thought I would share… unless Travis tells me this is inappropriate young dog footage… or Aki doesn’t like Travis’s patronizing (but humorous) tone.

Oh, found another one. This one is even cuter, in my opinion:

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Cool iPhone Bike Mount
Doug posted in Recommendations, Tech on August 25th, 2009
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So maybe I am crazy taking my iPhone to mount on my bike at Burning Man (which, OK, I may not do), but I will say that in the process I found a great thing that’s practically free. My iPhone mount arrived today and fits solidly on my bike, and cost just $7 total (shipping included):
http://www.fatyourwallet.com/universal-bike-mount-holder-iphone-iphone-ipod-touch-p-205.html

Yes, the English translation is weak, the guy is sending it from Hong Kong and hand writes the shipping label, and it takes like 12 days to get here. And truly, the mount can be used to hold any squarish and light device - not just the iPhone. The box reads “Bicycle Phone Holder.” But after mounting it on my bike, it feels quite solid, and I’m looking forward to a test ride. I’ll update this post with a track of my ride if it goes well. Which brings me to a related note.

If you’re ever wanting to track your rides around town using something like MotionX GPS, you’ve spent $3 on the app and $7 for a holder - pretty sweet bicycle GPS tracking tool for $10:
http://news.motionx.com/category/motionx-gps/

Anyway, good stuff.

Is this post really that exciting that it justifies a post after over a year of not writing anything at all on my blog? No, but at least I posted something. I plan to write more soon.

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