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An electric Yuba Mundo cargo bike with a trailer full of e-waste

Hauling 800 lbs of e-waste with an electric cargo bike

I needed to move about 800 lbs of e-waste from a church where I had a project to collect it to a location a mile away where there was an annual RecycleForce e-waste collection drive. The Yuba Mundo is rated to carry over 400 lbs of cargo and the Bikes-at-Work

Mother rides with child through a park with sunny park. A blue balloon blows in the breeze from the bike.

A car replacement day with an electric Yuba Mundo

Today was a car replacement day with the electric Yuba Mundo. My wife and child rode it about 20 miles around town for various trips that would have otherwise been done by car. I pedaled as hard as I could to keep up. Smiling. We stopped by the grocery on

Picture of a bike towing a 32 foot ladder on a trailer

How to haul a 32 foot ladder

This was Ron’s solution for getting a 32 foot ladder home from the store. The store as only about 2 miles away, and the ladder weighs only about 50 pounds, so using a using 4,000 pound car seems like a particularly inefficient solution. That is, if Ron had

Richmond, Indiana: Completing U.S. 27 piece of bike route network is essential

Richmond, Indiana: Completing U.S. 27 piece of bike route network is essential

This message is a public comment on INDOT’s proposed renovations of U.S. 27 as it it passes through Richmond, a project budgeted at $21 million. I support the City of Richmond’s response on DES#0100701 and offer the following in support of it. What’s wrong with

generating HTTP headers: sorted or unsorted?

generating HTTP headers: sorted or unsorted?

Recently I've been reviewing how various Perl frameworks and modules generate HTTP headers. After reviewing several approaches, it's clear that there are two major camps: those which put the response headers in a specific order and those which don't. Surely one approach or the

The cost of saving sent e-mail

The cost of saving sent e-mail

I don't tap my own phone. I don't xerox postcards before I mail them back from vacation. I don't take a voice recorder when I go out with friends. And I don't have a copy machine at home to duplicate hand written

Modifying PDFs so they open full screen

Modifying PDFs so they open full screen

The PDF spec includes an option to cause PDFs to open full screen when users open them. I'm a fan of the feature because it maximizes screen real estate and creates a simple, focused, experience for the PDF readers. Using this option is one of my two essential