It’s been a bit since I’ve written a cycling report. I biked about 70 miles this week. I’ve been busy at work. Not least of which was announcing a new partnership with Fujitsu. Yesterday I had the pleasure of cycling 42 miles. This was roughly the reverse route of my route the previous Sunday, which I mapped at DailyMile.

The gist of the route is Mission Hills > Old Town > Mission Bay > Pacific Beach > Mount Soledad > La Jolla Cove > Torrey Pines > Del Mar and then home by way of Rose Canyon Bike Path. At Torrey Pines I got dumped on with rain, but seemingly managed to outrun the downpour coming down the hill out of La Jolla.

Above Torrey Pines Reserve I bumped into the Stu from www.AnywhereBicycleRepair.com. He lubed my chain for free. He’ll come to you, anywhere, and maintain or repair your bike. Great guy.

I cycled Critical Mass in January, but I failed to write about it. It was a little smaller than usual, still over 500 cyclists, and the crowd was different from the norm. Seemingly angrier. Moreover, the police escort was oddly aggressive. Hopefully Critical Mass February will be better. If you’re interested in cycling Critical Mass rally at the big fountain in Balboa Park that’s between the natural history museum and the science center the last Friday of every month at 7 pm.

Now I’ll leave you with the best music video I’ve seen in years: Ok Go, “This Too Shall Pass”, which features the Notre Dame marching band.

by Toothpaste for Dinner.

Big Bear, CA.

Apple doesn’t allow you to manage your purchases. Patently absurd really. When you’ve lost your iPhone apps as I have done on occasion here is how you can laboriously and tediously recover them.

Launch iTunes. Select Store > View my account

Provide the credentials for your Apple Account and then select Purchase History.

Now you can page through your iTunes purchases and laboriously search > install and then repeat every one of the previous steps. I am sure you will enjoy this superlative Apple user experience as much as I have.

Since I could not find this in my Google searches allow me to include the following SEO: install iPhone apps, reinstall iPhone apps, re-install iPhone apps, recover iPhone applications.

Thank you @gigowey for the timely assist.

You have to love Twitter.

via Dharma Bum

We moved to new offices last weekend. Our last intergalactic HQ was woefully small for how large we’ve grown.

Previous MindTouch HQ at 555 West Beech St. San Diego 92103

In our last offices we did everything ourselves: networking, wiring, PBX (Trixbox) etc… It really showed.

This is Sarah’s desk. Throughout the office cables
hung from the ceiling

In the “Fishbowl”, a conference room, we had a NAS device whirring so loudly you have to shout to be heard.

We had so many people packed into the 5th floor (main) office that for lack of space I was sharing a conference room with Mark as an office. We turned a storage closet into a conference room, hence the name “the closet”. And Roy was holding conference calls in the reception area daily. Worst of all, I’m a little embarrassed to report that we’ve had so many bodies packed into such a small place the place smelled a little funky. Or maybe is was our old fridge that stunk regardless of how much we cleaned it.

Engineering had more space than any other department;
so, the above photo is not indicative of the tight confines.

Yesterday, Monday February 1, MindTouch moved to a new space, two block away from our last, in Columbia Center. It’s twice the size of our previous offices. To commemorate the occasion the sales and engineering team wore suits. I had meetings in San Mateo and missed the affair, but Roy shot some photos and posted them at his blog.

Maxim Mass and Roy Kim discussing pork futures.

Tim O’Brien undoubtedly closing a new customer. 

The new office is located across the street from the W Hotel and is half a block from Carl Strauss. We’ll be hosting an office warming party in the near future. I’m looking forward to entertaining on our amazing patio.

Photo of the MindTouch offices taken from the patio. Above are the conference and training rooms.

On my ride home today I shot this sunset over San Diego from Golf Course Dr. in Golden Hills.

Last year I was in a nasty cycling accident. Scans of my brain uncovered a benign tumor. Well, more precisely a colloid cyst, which I named Lil Craig. I had new scans taken last month. Good news and bad news. First, the bad. Lil Craig is no longer with us. RIP. Our time together was so short. Good news is, of course, I no longer have a growth in my melon.

I requested copies of both the original and recent brain CT scans. Scripps denied my request. Then I asked again, this time even more nicely. They agreed.

The before photos:

and the after photos:

I don’t see Lil Craig in either set! Do you? I thought these would be pretty exciting, but I was disappointed. I will tell what is way more exciting than I expected. The CT Scan of my torso.

Now that is awesome.