I decided to fulfill a dream this year on my birthday and spend a week biking on Missouri’s Katy Trail. I’d gone to graduate school in Columbia, near the center of the trail — the first rails-to-train-project in America — when the Katy opened. It’s 250 miles long, allowing bikers [Keep reading]
(Previous post) The trail begins just outside St. Louis, and the city of St. Charles is a fine place to start. Very cute, right along the river, plenty of shops and places to get lunch. But I’d done that before, and I wanted to see new things. [Keep reading]
(Previous post) Missouri’s capitol city, Jefferson City, is about 30 miles south of Columbia. I’d never been there, so I took that as my real first ride on the trail. The newness excited me. The sub-30 degree morning did not. But I’d read about a cool pedestrian bridge over the [Keep reading]
(Previous post) It’s funny, after probably 15 rides on various Katy Trail spots through years, I’d never Googled “Prettiest stretch of the Katy Trail.” I do that, and find out that the city I’d always visited first, Rocheport, is the trail’s best spot anyway. Rocheport is the perfect little stop, [Keep reading]
(Previous post) I wanted to go see a part of the trail on the west side of Missouri, and I’d passed signs for the Missouri State Fairgrounds for years, so my next trip was to Sedalia, about 60 miles southwest of Columbia. It was a mixed bag. The restored train [Keep reading]
(Previous post) This is my last long ride, and I’m already getting nostalgic about a trip I haven’t finished yet. Remember McBain? On day 2, I rode from Rocheport to McBain, just south of Columbia. On this day, I start at McBain and head south, aiming for a spot called [Keep reading]
(Previous post) I head to Meriwether one last time for breakfast, but first, I take the trail in the other direction — west, towards Boonville — and get in a quick 5-mile ride. This direction takes you through the famous train tunnel, and it’s amazing acoustics. Also, the colors it [Keep reading]
First off, yes, Facebook has been hacked, and no, we don’t yet know how bad that hack is. Second, your Facebook account probably has NOT been hacked, and you probably don’t have a clone out there, despite all the messages and posts saying otherwise. Finally, it is actually possible (though [Keep reading]
A security hurdle meant to block criminals from stealing PIN codes that secure credit freezes at Experian was easily overcome simply by answering “None of the above” to a series of security questions, according to a report by NerdWallet.com. “Our colleague Liz Weston and several others at NerdWallet this morning were [Keep reading]
If you think nobody ever *really* tries to hack Wi-Fi, there’s now a remarkable demonstration that you are wrong. On Thursday, the Dutch government accused Russian GRU (military intelligence) agents of parking outside a government building with a rental car full of high-powered wireless hacking equipment — hidden in the [Keep reading]
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