Monthly Archives: February 2008

The Bobsled Run

I took my kids to Lake Placid last week on their school vacation. The real focus of the trip was something we’d all read about and decided we really wanted to do: ride the Olympic bobsled run there. So we did. The ride lasts about 48 seconds, you hit a speed around 51 mph, and [...]

Quick Install of Subversion on Windows

I was looking into Trac, which led me to finally get SVN installed, which led me to futz through the basic steps and finally discover there’s a 1-click installer for Windows after I got it working… But the trick is getting it to run as a service under Windows. Turns out the newer versions can [...]