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Another weekend passes without having figured out a suitable bike route to work. This despite having just spend $50 on a biking jersey — not to mention much more than that on the actual bike. (For the curious, it’s a Trek 1000.) I’m a bit disappointed that I haven’t been able to get my biking act together yet, since this week is officially Ride Your Bike to Work Week. Still, I’ve enjoyed the rides I have been on, including an 18-mile trip with David and Kevin last weekend.

I did get to spend some time this weekend scratching my head over what I’m going to do about Professor Yeti. My goal is to get a management system in place whereby the editors can post the content themselves and have the issues automatically generated — right now I’m translating text and Word files into html and building the pages by hand. This can be pretty frustrating: it takes a while, and I invariably introduce new errors during the translation process, which means the editors are forced to proofread everything again after I’ve built the pages.

I’ve test-driven a bunch of freely-available CMS’s, but I have yet to find one where the amount of work I’d have to put into it to make it useful for Professor Yeti is less than the amount of work I’d have to put into developing my own system. It looks like I may be in for some fun with PHP before this is all settled.

In other news, I spent some quality time at the Mall of America this weekend getting measured for a tuxedo in anticipation of my participation in the upcoming Loyd-Applegarth wedding. My jacket size is a 38 regular.