Bike Trucking

Posted on August 25, 2003 by Arthur

While driving through Truro today, I noticed that very same feeling that I had before: that drivers here are not used to bikers, let alone know what to do when confronted with a cyclist that does not (I repeat: not) have the right-away. In most instances drivers stopped for me, waving that I could go on.

I guess, in a way, it’s good, but in another way, it adds to the confusion for someone who has been ‘trained’ under different circumstances. It could be worse, though: the other moment, I saw a cyclist just crossing the road on a crosswalk, without bothering to watch for any traffic. He would have been dead if he did that in Europe.

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8 Responses to Bike Trucking

  1. Alfons says:
    August 25, 2003 at 4:50 pm AST

    You aren’t converting the http://www.diaries.com entries manually, are you?
    :-)

  2. Arthur says:
    August 25, 2003 at 5:00 pm AST

    You aren’t converting the http://www.diaries.com entries manually

    Not all of them. Just some of them. Can I?

  3. Alfons says:
    August 25, 2003 at 5:02 pm AST

    Ofcourse you can! But not *manually* right? :-)

  4. Arthur says:
    August 25, 2003 at 5:04 pm AST

    Ofcourse you can! But not *manually* right? :-)

    Why, yes :-). First, I can’t find the ‘export’ tool. Secondly, when activity gets above a certain amount, the Radio server behaves unstable.

  5. Alfons says:
    August 25, 2003 at 5:06 pm AST

    I have python on Doubtful, so I guess you could run a cron job.
    You’re a python guy right?

  6. Arthur says:
    August 25, 2003 at 5:13 pm AST

    I have python on Doubtful, so I guess you could run a cron job.

    This means that it still has to go through all the entries manually: almost 2000? :-)

    You’re a python guy right?

    Or PHP, yes. I’ll have to dig through xsamplex to see if I can find the exporter tool. Would save me a bunch-o-more time :).

  7. Alfons says:
    August 25, 2003 at 5:16 pm AST

    Sorry, doubtful doesn’t do PHP yet. It does CGI though:

    root@proteus:/usr/logs > httpd -l
Compiled-in modules:
  http_core.c
  mod_env.c
  mod_log_config.c
  mod_mime.c
  mod_negotiation.c
  mod_status.c
  mod_include.c
  mod_autoindex.c
  mod_dir.c
  mod_cgi.c
  mod_asis.c
  mod_imap.c
  mod_actions.c
  mod_userdir.c
  mod_alias.c
  mod_access.c
  mod_auth.c
  mod_setenvif.c
  8. Alfons says:
    August 25, 2003 at 5:21 pm AST

    This means that it still has to go through all the entries manually: almost 2000? :-)

    What I meant is to have it run as a low prio cron job running overnight.

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