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June 18, 2007
Typekey authentication
I was getting blasted by comment spam, so I enabled Typekey, an authentication service that claims to eliminate spam. It certainly eliminated spam, but it also eliminated comments. A friend informed me that, "your typekey login thing fails horribly for me." So, it's disabled for the time being while I try to figure out a better approach. Any other ideas out there?
Posted by mark at 8:26 AM | Comments (1)
June 15, 2007
Shenandoah Mountain 100
I'm not really sure why, but I'm planning to attempt the annual Shenandoah Mountain 100 this year. It's a brutally difficult, 100-mile mountain bike race in the mountains near Harrisonburg. Here's a good writeup of last years race. Both Jeremiah Bishop and Sue Haywood are local riders.
Here's the elevation profile for this year's race. There's 12-14,000 feet of total climbing!
I've given myself a couple benchmarks that must be met if I'm to enter. The first is that I must weigh a maximum of 175lbs. A little over a year ago, I weighed in at a whopping 205 lbs. I'm currently at 189 and dropping. The second is that I must have ridden at least 40 miles of this year's course, and not be completely dead.
I expect that even if I'm in top condition, it will take me 13-15 hours. That's totally insane.
Posted by mark at 12:48 PM | Comments (1)
Unorganic organics
Thanks to Alan at Maona.net, I discovered that the USDA has a list of allowed non-organic products to exist in certified organic products.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/2007/06/11/nonorganic-foods-allowed-in-organic-products/2452/
As a brewer, the one that jumped out at me was hops. I would love to see a detailed explanation for why the USDA has granted each exception.
Posted by mark at 12:28 PM | Comments (0)