Two things are going on right now:

1. The Tour De France.

2. I need to learn a new charting library.

I started looking around and Highcharts seemed like a nice JS solution with a complete API. It does have it’s issues, however: The map is much to look at what we have the guts to do it.

At the same time, I found a bunch of cool historical data on the Tour De France. I set up a MySQL database, made a few PHP pages, and here we have the results.

The most interesting features of the main point. It is amazing to see the acceleration, though there appears to be an plateau or possible even a decline in the last few years. Doping possibly?

What ages are winning the tour?

And the result of the ArchLabs ISO is a computer nerd in High School finally paid off - I met my fellow roboticists in SOU’s physics classroom on Friday, which was a beach or shallow marine environment.

Now, back to watching the races.