tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65159112010-02-23T22:45:22.167-08:00A personal web log about Technology, Equestrian Vaulting, and life in general.TomSnoreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515911.post-41109380991476258692010-02-23T22:32:00.000-08:002010-02-23T22:45:22.352-08:00

I hadn't realized that there are now more people in China on the Internet then there are people (on or off-line) in the US.China toughens Internet rules - Yahoo! NewsIt makes you wonder about where the bulk of the Internet will be in a few years with most of the Internet users and some of the best hackers being in China.Google attack puts spotlight on China's "red" hackers - Reuters

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... however direct quoting is better.-- Tom Sayles

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It's sad but true that there was "Nothing to celebrate on Public Domain Day 2010 in the US".While most music use for vaulting probably comes under Fair Use because we are fundamentally educating kids, the licensing issues are probably one of our sport's biggest obstacles to long term growth.Think about all the wonderful computer software and video games from the 80s that would start passing into

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It's now been four weeks since Lena crunched me up and rolled me out a stall door. My sprained neck continues to improve a little bit every day. On Friday afternoon I had my first ever chiropractic treatment. After the treatment I went out to my Jeep and when I went to back out of the parking spot, I found that I could turn my neck significantly further then when I had arrived for the appointment

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Neck x-ray Originally uploaded by TSayles This is one of the x-rays of my neck taken on Nov. 22, 2009. The yellow circle shows where my neck bones have been displaced by a few millimeters.I saw my primary care physician just after Thanksgiving weekend. Diagnosis was a sprained neck with a four to six week expected recovery time. Since then my recovery has progressed though it has plateaued

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Hot fresh cookies Originally uploaded by TSayles I wanted something sweet, so I made cookie dough. First six cookies fresh out of the oven. Rest of dough is in freezer.

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I spent Thursday, Friday and most of Saturday, intensely resting and trying to heal from last Sunday's accident. This meant no horse activities, no-computer, no cooking Turkey, very little phone and very little texting. Progress has been slow with a few setbacks along the way. I did make a second trip in to the Group Health urgent care on Saturday morning to get some new pains checked out and

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Norval Rhodes (NorvalRhodes) on Twitter:Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. -Tori Amos

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Lena stone bruise continues to improve. She's putting more weight on her right front hoof today.However we did have a bit of an accident this morning as I was taking the soaking bag off her foot. While I was hunched over unbuckling the bag, the stall cleaner asked if, when I was done, he could move Lena across the aisle so he could clean her stall. Unfortunately Lena took this an an invitation,

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Vet visit: 1.5 hr, $211 (including meds)Update e-mails, phone calls, text messages: 1 hrShopping for treatment supplies: 2 hr, $60 (including .5 hr timeout $20 for iSushi dinner)Setting up treatment supplies and soaking hoof: 1 hrSetting up stall at front barn for a week and shuffling horses around: 1.5 hr, $42Knowing that the horse is resting well and will be okay: Priceless!

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Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games - Yahoo! News:David Bashford is one of my co-workers at the toothbrush lab. In is off hours he's been building a climber(s) and support systems for LaserMotive LLC to compete in one of NASA's Centennial Challenges. This past week they were the only team who's laser beam powered climber made it to the top of a kilometer long cable suspended from a

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My lake front view is back Originally uploaded by TSayles With the return of the winter rains, the low lying areas around the farm have filled back up with water. This particular patch of water will probably grow and shrink but never really go away until next May or June. I really like being able to post pictures directly from my phone to Flickr and then a link to Twitter. It makes

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Q.o.D: "There are two schools of thought. Our boss and everybody else." -- an anonymous employee

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Prophecy is the ability to foretell the future.Wisdom is knowing how to influence the future.Ambition is acting to influence the future in your own self interest.Altruism is acting to influence the future in the interest of others.True leadership is equal parts of the above.-- Tom Sayles

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I'm getting really tired of the extremist propaganda, religious and otherwise, being circulated mostly by e-mail, but also in other media.It's time that vast majority of moderate Americans stand-up to say that closed minded extremists (on both ends of the spectrum) are wrong and that we want a moderate, rational, inclusive government with progressive values that works toward liberty, freedom and

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Happy HorsesOriginally uploaded by TSayles As Fran pointed out, safe trailering is important skill for all horse owners and horses. And Tammy Denault (of Dreamswept Farm) is, IMHO, one of the best. Together we have hauled horses thousands of miles, and I have learned much from her. And this photo is a good example of doing things right.The importance of good trailering skills, especially in

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Fran --Sorry, but your Hoof Blog, is not copyleft compatible. So you may not use my Happy Horses photo or any of my images, until you open up your licensing practices. [I not a big supporter the whole uptight permission based culture.]If you got with the future and supported the creative commons, you wouldn't have to ask permission.-- Tom SaylesHello, Tom,I wondered if I could ask permission to

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Wow. Publishing from anyware is getting easier and easier. For example this was sent as an sms from my phone.

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One of my colleagues, Joe Grez, is starting up this cool new company called PropEle Marine. Which has developed an exciting light weight electric boat motor that's clean and quiet for your kayak, canoe, dinghy, dink, inflatable, pontoon boat, or other craft. It's works kind of like an outboard engine, but it's portable and powered by a modern battery pack. In early tests the performance is

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I ran across this on a more or less random blog.How does something like get organized? Was it, as it appears to be, a flash mob? Or did some group rehearse this prior to the preformance?

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One of the real innovations that the Internet has brought is the ability to find share things like super bowl commercials. Here are some of this year's best, IMHO.

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For those that haven't heard about this issue, last year there was an administrative ruling in Olympia that reclassified equestrian facilities that didn't breed or sell horses (or some other agricultural product) such that they lost the tax breaks given to other commercial farms.  The current effort in Olympia is aimed at restoring the long held position that horse boarding, training, and

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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge." — Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia I do and you should too.

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I recently bought a pair of high speed [7200 RPM] 1TB hard drives form TigerDirect. But when I went to install them, I found that I was short a pair of HD mounting rails, that allow 3.5" drives to fit the 5.25" bays in my big steel server case. So after asking the guy at the local PC Recycle center, I went googeling around looking for HD rails at a good price. They're not easy to find and only

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