Mustknow Morestuff

It's just like I said...

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:48:00 +0000

...on bikes, bicycles and bike racing...

...on sustainability, business, gadgets and more...

...on images...

...and on why we are here...

Stephanie Dosen

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:08:00 +0000

Lost cities...

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:58:00 +0000

If you think that our cities and civilisations are going to be around forever you should check out what we've lost...

OK, how about Metacafe?

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:32:00 +0000

Along the lines of searchable video databases there is also Metacafe.

Blinkx is a must-know

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:20:00 +0000

Blinkx promotes itself as the most advanced video search engine on the Web. So does it work? Yep, seems to. Also has a cool Pico-bar that monitors what you are doing and feeds you suggestions... hmmm. I think I'll leave that option alone for a while.

But what does it mean?

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:40:00 +0000

I just dug this out of the "This Week in SCIENCE" emails from AAAS, from May 12 2006, 312 (5775). The AAAS says: "Not So Fast...The strength of the Earth's magnetic field has decayed since accurate measurements began in 1840, and these changes have led to speculation that the field will disappear or reverse within this millennium."

Which would be pretty scary. We'd either have no north/south poles or our north would become south and vice versa. You can imagine how confusing and dangerous that alone would be... but whjat of electronic gizmos in general and the potential for not just pole reversals but concomitant electromagnetic field disturbance?

Anyway (this was back in May, 2006 remember)they (the researchers, Gubbins et al) have devised a method to use paleointensity measurements in conjunction
with directional information to extend the record of the Earth's magnetic
field back to 1590. Contrary to the recent steep decline, they find that
the dipole moment fell hardly at all until around 1800. So there. It may not be moving so fast after all. Still, it's something to watch.

BBC Languages site

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:48:00 +0000

Here's an excellent resource - the BBC Languages site...

Lost? Try this map...

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:19:00 +0000

It's a map of the Internet, folks. Now that's gotta be useful...

Where the bloody hell are you? (As the saying goes...)

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:52:00 +0000

Music: a wealth of Who resources

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:21:00 +0000

Can't help myself... some sites worth reading that relate to Pete Townshend and the Who...

Pete's partner... Rachel Fuller on Wikipedia
Rachel's excellent, audio-fied site on Myspace.com
In the Attic TV - videos of Rachel, her interviews and perhaps some Pete as well
A Frappr map of Rachel's fans
The Kids are Alright: lots to read here about the progeny of rock stars, but my interest was in Emma Townshend
A quote from the above link: 'Before signing to East West records, Emma studied for a masters and history of science PhD, and taught undergraduates at Cambridge for two years. She is shameless about her reasons for giving that up. 'I know this sounds terrible, but it's crap money,' she says. 'And if you've grown up like I grew up and gone on really nice holidays, when you're working and you can't afford to go anywhere, you think, "I can't live on the amount of money you get paid for teaching!" '
Cambridge? It seems Emma's teaching at Oxford now
Review of Emma's Winterland album here on TWAS
Longliverock.org
An interview (in text form) with Pete on Sirius radio.

What we all thought was true after all, is

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:12:00 +0000

Have you ever, like me, wondered why slouching in a chair - lying back well beyond the usually-suggested straight-back 90 degree angle - feels so good? Ever felt the back relax when in that position? Well guess what - the 'sit up straight' school of posture control is bad for you. Mind you, at the recommended 135degrees you do tend to slide forward and risk disappearing under the desk... but gee it's comfy! From the BBC...

I've been writing on myths and legends

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:43:00 +0000

When I'm not writing about bikes, cars and business I'm either adding to the Sydney in the 70s Gallery or writing about mythical creatures. Well, you've got to have a hobby or 5, haven't you?

The 70's stuff comes about because I'm slowly scanning all of my old negatives. I'm over the 1,000 mark at this stage... it's a bit tedious but rewarding, revisiting one's distant past! And the mythical creatures? Well Roman and Greek mythology has interested me for 40 years or so, and now my kids are getting into it as well.. can't be bad, can it?

Wikipedia is getting to be invaluable

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:35:00 +0000

Wikipedia is getting to be invaluable. It's always shown promise but now it's almost unbelievably good. Want to know about bikes? Look at this. Cars? Check this out. Greenhouse gases? Business management? You name it, someone's thought of it. It almost makes me want to give up writing these blogs and just direct you all to read the Wiki instead. Almost.

The MustKnows you must know

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:26:00 +0000

Well, if they aren't must-knows they are things I find interesting anyway!

And the sponsors and bargains page is here, too.

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:21:00 +0000

1975 commercial - Braniff Airways - The Supersonic Future

Hilarious, if a little sad. Braniff don't exist anymore and supersonic airliners died in 2003... as for very little walking, that bit seems to have happened...

The original bargain list...

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:54:00 +0000

Yes, there used to be a list of sponsors here, places that offered good value on products that appealed to some of us... well me, anyway. But now the list is here... so please explore.

We mustknow morestuff

noreply@blogger.com (gtveloce) — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:18:00 +0000

We can never know less stuff, indeed we should know more stuff. Welcome to the revamped sponsors and affiliates page at gtveloce.com!

You may be interested in Morestuff as well.

And if you get lost, here's a master link list:

My portals

My Alfa pages

The Rust-free Alfa Romeo page: guaranteed since '95
All about Alfas, especially GTVs
The car gallery

My bike racing pages

Addicted2wheels, bicycle race wheels: my most popular blog
Bike racing for almost anyone
The bike gallery

My myths and legends pages

Myths, legends and weird stuff: Mythoblogia

My sustainable business pages

The business of sustainable business
My MBA resource blog - thespiel.com
Out Out Damned Blog - a wilder ride
The Offline blog for quieter web-rants

My overly long list of blogs

Addicted2wheels, bicycle race wheels: my most popular blog
The site that started it all for me in 1995, Colnago - the blogger
The Rust-free Alfa Romeo page: guaranteed since '95
My MBA resource blog - thespiel.com
Myths, legends and weird stuff: Mythoblogia
The Abecedarian Insult: A2Z, the blog
Stuff I think you all mustknow
All about Alfas, especially GTVs
The business of sustainable business
Bike racing for almost anyone
The Offline blog for web-rants
My all purpose writing blog
The Class of 75 blog
The gtveloce.com-munity blog
My genealogy research blog
Out Out Damned Blog - a wild ride

My image galleries

DAP: the digital image gallery
My mostly digital image blog
DAR: the digital art gallery
The aviation gallery
The aviation image blog
Trams, trains and buses... yet another gallery
The bike gallery
The car gallery
The flora and fungus gallery (I kid you not)
The New Fortian gallery
The Original Fortian gallery

Surely that's enough for now!