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Late Season Bontrager Gnarwhal Review
After holding out on dropping the mad dollars for some studded fat bike tires for a few years, I finally caved. Here’s what I found out. When I first got my Surly Pugsley, I was an instant believer in the platform. I picked it up in February took it home and bombed around in the…
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Fits and Starts.
Posted in: NarrativeHere is this year’s blog reboot. I have stopped and started this thing more times than I can count, so I’ve stopped trying. It would seem, at some point, what I am destined to do, so I will roll with it. I have a bit of a new format this time, a renewed habit of writing…
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Secure your WordPress websites, kids.
Posted in: The Internet & MediaI’ve spent the last two weeks putting out fires and restoring/rebuilding WordPress websites for clients due to a recent rash of new WordPress hacks and attacks. Securing and maintaining client WP sites has suddenly jumped to the top of my To-Do list. WordPress is arguably one of the most popular online blogging and content management…
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Coffeeneuring 2015: Control 7
Plagued again by my small town’s lack of open coffee shops on Sunday morning, I was forced to be resourceful to knab my final control for this year. Control #7 Date: November 15, 2015 Location: Tim Hortons, Marysville, New Brunswick Order: Large Dark Roast Black, 3 sour cream glazed Distance: 25km round trip Bike Friendly: whatever. Due…
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Coffeeneuring 2015: Controls 5 & 6
A tale of two coffees. Two more disparate coffees, I challenge you to find. Control #5 Date: October 24, 2015 Location: Chamcook Lake, NB, Canada Order: Fresh ground cup of Hobo Rouleur from Ocean Air Cycles Distance: 55km round trip Bike Friendly: Oh, hells yeah. While I was on a mini-getaway in St. Andrews, NB,…
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Coffeeneuring 2015: Controls 3 & 4
Subcategory: Cookieneuring The Coffeeneuring Challenge 2015 continues. And sometimes, it gets ugly. Control #3 Date: October 11, 2015 Location: Read’s, Fredericton Order: Americano, Ginormous Chocolate Chip Cookie Distance: 30km round trip Bike Friendly: Yeh Hit up the Read’s news stand and cafe in downtown Fredericton. It was raining pretty good, which in my mind merits…