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I came across this interesting chart while surf the other night… we’re right there… in middle.

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Since Windows 7 is coming out soon, I figured that it was perhaps a good time to upgrade from XP to Vista. It’s been around for a few years and most of the bugs must be worked out by now. Besides almost everyone I know is running Vista so it makes it hard to offer assistance when I don’t know what they’re talking about.

I followed all the Microsoft prep instructions and found that most of my installed programs would work fine and the ones that wouldn’t, I’d simply have to install the Vista version instead. And again, since Vista has been out for a while, I was able to find the updates without any problem.

After many, many hours of watching my hard disk churn away and a few reboots, the Vista login screen appeared. Upon browsing the folders I noticed that many document folders reverted to ‘Image’-type folder views. A quick search on the web showed me how to modify the registry to prevent that from re-occuring.

Then there’s the annoying User Account Control pop-up window that comes up everytime I’d open something. I understand the purpose of this extra protection but it’s really a pain to have the screen flash and that window pop up all the time. So once again, off to the internet I went searching for a way to keep UAC on but make it accept certain applications like Java automatically.

I found the perfect solution here. This webpage accurately details all the steps to follow to disable UAC for certain Vista applications. If you follow all the steps, you too can achieve success!!

So now I just have to get used to the new interface. The ability to type in the program name without having to mouse over endless menu trees is nice. It does take a bit more CPU cycles to run but for my purposes my dual core 3.0GHz pentium with 1.5GB of RAM is fine. But I think I’ll need to upgrade my HD soon cause all my media is taking up an ever increasing amount of space.

Ooh, and did I mention that running dual screens is amazing. Have a look below:

Cheers until next time!

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Rode out from Westside to Maclean Creek today following yesterday’s Cochrane ride. 2 hours gaining 1000ft into 50+kph winds… it was hard.. but the 1.5 hr ride back was easy! What goes up must come down… a strong headwind becomes a great tailwind! Gotta love it!

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I must remember that when you start out at midday you risk a windy ride and yesterdays ride was proof of that.

I set out for a 60km ride from the Westside Churhc parking lot, west to hwy 22 and then down the Bragg Creek and back.

The ride out was crazy windy. While Im not the strongest rider I like to try a keep my cadence up around 90rpm. Well, on this trip I had trouble to keep it at 70 even of the flat stretch. My speed was painfully slow as illustrated by the pictures below.

After the round-about at the 20km mark I stopped to have a drink and rest for a minute and the crosswind was so strong that it blew me down before I could fully clip-in. So down I went on the shoulder. Hurt my right calf a little but that was it. Its much better than falling while going 30kpm!!

Just to illustrate what Im talking about, Ive included some screenshots from Sportracks of the track, speed and elevation.

Going out is slightly uphill, into the wind with an average speed of around 23-25kph, I guess and the return is downhill with an average speed of 38-40kph. Now that part felt great even if the shifting tailwind did make things a bit wobbly at times.

[caption id="attachment_507" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Speed Chart"][/caption]

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