S T E P H E N H U C K E R . C O M

I purchased a new bike on Saturday, went a little over budget so I walked into the city (8km), picked it up and was riding home and I got a bloody nail through the tyre, so another 4 km walking

So far, I like it. It is very responsive, easy to accelerate.
My goal with [...]

My bike fully loaded ready to go to Blanket bay last week, so pretty
Upon my return, it included extra protein, in the form of bugs, lots of bugs

15.11.2009 11-10-56 Great Ocean Road – Blanket Bay Fishing Trip, originally uploaded by Stephen Hucker.

Got back safety from my trip to Blanket Bay last weekend, But alas, as I was hooning down the alley behind my apartment I must have run over some glass, $50 !

This Saturday I went on my first big ride, a 500km round trip from Melbourne to Blanket Bay (near Apollo Bay).

Some pictures are up on my Flickr account ==> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hucker/sets/72157622332954407/

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Ready to go. You can find more pictures at flickr

The only accessories I have purchased so far are:

1. Boots

2. New Jacket

3. Crash Guard for bike which you can see in the photos

4. New Gloves

The owner of the shop was saying it was a A0 model, i.e not A9 (2009) but A0 (2010) … but I [...]

Trying out the bike in the shop, but wrong colour and no ABS

From Wikipedia

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After scanning through the archive Python articles at Clark’s Tech Blog I noticed a link to MIT’s MIT 6.00 Intro to Computer Science & Programming, Fall 2008

This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. [...]

I have just finished ripping these

my CD collection, into Apple lossless audio files. Now I will never need to rip my music again because unlike MP3 or AAC files there is no compression, so converting from Apple lossless to another future lossless format means no audio quality is lost.

Converting to Apple lossless has blown out [...]