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Tori's Tri will be held on July 21, 2007 here in Vancouver to celebrate the life and commemorate the unfortunate death of Canadian Olympic hopeful and Canadian World Championship duathelete. You can find her story here.

I had the honor of being in a running class that she taught here in Vancouver and was always amazed at the grace and agility of Tori when she would run effortlessly while the rest of us huffed and puffed in desperation trying to keep up with her.

Godspeed, wherever she may be.

This was a fun little online test of how fast you can type a block of test including any corrections.

I managed to nail about 92 words a minute on my second try...

I recently purchased a brand new Apple MacBook and love just about everything about it. Since this is my first time to have hands-on experience with Front Row, I quickly tracked down the necessary Xvid codecs to enable playback of .avi/Xvid file in Front Row.

Simply download the Intel Binary of XviD/Avi Import Components file, drop the Xvid Codec and AviImporter file into ~/Library/Quicktime (or root Library folder for all user access), and playback of these files is available through Quicktime and Front Row immediately.