Niall's Weblog

Lots of people have a small home network. Usually you have a combo box which acts as a router/firewall/file server. Then you have a couple of other machines hooked up, and you share the Internet using NAT. A private DNS server is helpful in this kind of scenario for two reasons: Recursive resolver cache can [...]

Today on my ride home from work, along Fell St. between Divisadero and Broderick, I saw the guy cycling just in front of me get hit by a car which made a sudden left turn, into the bicycle lane, and into a parking lot. // The car was moving slowly at the time, but the [...]

I’ve been riding a fixed gear bicycle daily to work (10 mile commute round-trip) for over a year now. I love riding fixed gear. I wrote several articles about my experiences building my own fixie on this blog. Something I learned how to do pretty recently was to do a track stand. If you haven’t [...]

I already wrote a bit about completing my fixed-gear bicycle last week, and since then I have had the chance to ride it around San Francisco a good bit. I live in the Inner Sunset, by Golden Gate Park, and I work downtown on New Montgomery. Its around four and a half miles from my [...]

I finished my bicycle a few days ago, and have been riding it an tweaking it since. The Shimano UN-53 works fine on the Italian frame and crankset fits perfectly. For the moment I’ve mounted my old, standard road pedals – I’ll put on the SPD pedals once I am more used to riding fixed [...]