Uneventful travels have brought us to the starting point: Toliara on the Southwest Coast of Madagascar. For me this included 22 hours of flying time: two hours to Atlanta, eight hours to Paris, ten hours to Antananarivo and two hours … Continue reading →
On my way to Madagascar. Photo below from the Paris airport. This is also a test to see that I can create blog posts and get them included in the Madagascar page by setting the right category. This makes it … Continue reading →
AI assistants continue to grow in capability. I am particularly intrigued by recent additions of “deep research” that essentially do web searches to collect information and then create an overall summary. Below is my experience trying to use Google Gemini … Continue reading →
April 2025 and time for another bicycle trip. This time I decided to take a week of vacation to bicycle in New Mexico. I have a condo in Alto (near Ruidoso) and planned trip with that in mind. In particular … Continue reading →
From the seat of a bicycle one can get a unique view of the world. You stop in places others might quickly bypass or miss. I’ve been reminded I was still a strange curiosity by the dozen people in south … Continue reading →
The Plan A bicycle ride from Alamogordo New Mexico to Lubbock Texas in April 2024. Why? This seems to be about the right time of year to ride this segment and several things also come together. It lets me “connect” … Continue reading →
I received a prompt from Microsoft co-pilot as an introduction. So I tried it with the following prompt: Write a bicycling blog in the style of Mike Vermeulen Here is what it created: Definitely a few things that are incorrect … Continue reading →
On March 22, 2012 AMD employees in the Portland office were gathered for a mandatory meeting. It was announced the office would be closing by end of the year. It was a surprise to most, though as a manager I … Continue reading →
Last month, I posted a blog posted on approaches to creating an automatic solver for Wordle. After that posting, there was also a Five Thirty Eight riddler question about the same topic by Zach Wissner Gross. In Zach’s original posting … Continue reading →
There is a new craze lately about a simple game named Wordle. The idea is somewhat similar to the old game of Mastermind: There is a hidden five-letter word you try to guess. For each guess, you get feedback if a … Continue reading →