August 19-27: Running & Cycling in Birmingham

Work is consuming life and making it difficult to do anything else. I am learning LifeRay portal, velocity and working way through some good OOAD and Java Serverfaces stuff. Meanwhile, my lists of things to do, my proverbial pile, seems to just keep getting higher and higher. Guess that is what happens over time and there is no escape. Most of it is fun, just wished could move at a pace that felt normal instead of beyond what seems reasonable. But, a lot of folks I talk to seem to find their jobs the same way. Guess it is just what we have done to ourselves. Produce, produce, produce.... have more stuff, make more money, work...work...work...don't rest, don't slow down, work...work...work...work....

Anybody got some cheese for that whine!

I have been keeping up with my workouts though and here's the latest podcasts I have listened to:

• Phedippidations
• RRT01: Some Time with the Good Doctor an interesting format, an online roundtable of runnings talking. I liked it.
  
• 149: The Mens Marathon of the 29th Olympiad
• Fitness Rocks
• 108 Reduced Disability Among Aging Runners
• 109 Exercise Nutrition: An Interview with Dr. Kathleen Melanson
• This American Life, Show 339: The Break Up
  

Data

August 27, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	6.19 Miles
Time:	57:56
Heart Rate:	144
Pace:	9:21
Weather:	Mostly cloudy Temperature-70° Humidity-94%

August 26, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	3 Miles
Time:	27:37
Heart Rate:	153
Pace:	9:12
Weather:	Overcast Temperature-73° Humidity-94%

August 24, 2008: Birmingham, AL Brownell-Shades Creek Running
Distance:	12.84 Miles
Time:	2:05:42
Heart Rate:	144
Pace:	9:47
Weather:	Overcast/Rain Temperature-73° Humidity-94%
Route

August 23, 2008: Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain State Park Cycling
Distance:	23.27 Miles
Time:	1:22:04
Heart Rate:	133
Speed:	17.42 mph
Weather:	Light rain Temperature-73° Humidity-84%
Route

August 22, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	6.2 Miles
Time:	1:00:30
Heart Rate:	146
Pace:	9:45
Weather:	Clear Temperature-76° Humidity-58%

August 20, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	6.3 Miles
Time:	1:00:45
Heart Rate:	145
Pace:	9:38
Weather:	Clear Temperature-70° Humidity-70%

August 19, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	3 Miles
Time:	27:02
Heart Rate:	139
Pace:	9:00
Weather:	Haze Temperature-73° Humidity-79%

August 12-17: Running & Cycling in Birmingham

A busy, but good week. I finally bought an HDTV, a 37LG30, a 37" diagonal LCD at 720p. We had an Olympics party last night and the wife wanted a good viewing. We went with the this model because it was available, fit in our cabinet, and had a better picture that comparable sized TV's we looked at. So, far, so good. The party went well too.

Adam Curry has basically turned the Daily Source Code into conspiracy theory central. What a shame! I miss the tech talk and just general all around notes about his life. This conspiracy crap, for me, is just noise. But, it is his show and I have a fast forward button.

Work has me diving into more low level code than I get to which is exciting for me. So, I'm learning more directly about JavaServer Faces, Dojo, and Ajax.

I listened to these podcasts:

• This American Life
• Show 338, The Spokesman
• Show 361, Fear of Sleep
• Phedippidations
• 147: Low Impact Living
• 148: The Womans Marathon of the 29th Olympiad
• IT Conversations
• Prosumer Media: A Panel Discussion
• Eucalyptus on Technometria with Phil Windley
• Providing Online Social Networks With a Voice
• Technometria with Phil Windley: CTO Panel

Data

August 17, 2008: Birmingham, AL Brownell-Shades Creek Running
Distance:	13.1 Miles
Time:	2:02:09
Heart Rate:	145
Pace:	9:18
Weather:	Haze Temperature-67° Humidity-76%
Route

August 16, 2008: Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain State Park Cycling
Distance:	23.75 Miles
Time:	1:21:08
Heart Rate:	133
Speed:	17.56
Weather:	Haze Temperature-72° Humidity-73%
Route

August 15, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	6.27 Miles (new route into "The Villages)
Time:	58:41
Heart Rate:	1150
Pace:	9:21
Weather:	Clear Temperature-67° Humidity-87%

August 13, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	6.16 Miles
Time:	58:25
Heart Rate:	146
Pace:	9:28
Weather:	Overcast Temperature-70° Humidity-88%

August 12, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	3 Miles
Time:	28:30
Heart Rate:	143
Pace:	9:30
Weather:	Scattered clouds Temperature-73° Humidity-81%

August 5-10: Running & Cycling in Birmingham & South Carolina

Sunday, I took off for Blythewood, SC via Atlanta. I drive for 3 hours to just the other side of Atlanta, then drive the rest in the morning on Monday. I worked all week in Blythewood, SC. We have a user conference coming up and it always makes for a few intense months just prior to its conductance. So, here we go! While I was there, I practiced a fireman's carry in preparation for the Marine Corp Ultimate Challenge Mud Run in September. I did well once I figured it out, but not until I dropped my team mate once.

Adam Curry continues to go off on conspiracy theory. I am currently listening to a This American Life podcast, The Spokesman, that involves a blogger that was in one of the trains blown up in London. Some conspiracy theorists starting attaching her, verbally. They even contacted her family including death threats. Said she was part of MI-5 and such. This conspiracy crap is a whole different thing when someone who was really there and saw the body parts of people is accused of lying about being there and seeing it. But, she learned the hard way that you can not shake the convictions of many of these folks. It smells like a lot of religion to me. I am convinced of the truth based on my reasons and any contradiction to those rules must be snuffed, by God! Too bad this happens to people. As far as 9/11 and the London train bombings being inside jobs, I don't understand why folks can not just believe that extremists really did it and would love to do it again. They really hate western society and actively plot to do this crap. It's real!

I sold my original iPhone on eBay for a good amount, yeppee. I ship it tomorrow.

I listened to these podcasts:

• IT Conversations (all on Social Networking)
  
• A Closer Look at Online Social Activity, with Lada Adamic, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan on IT Conversations
• Here Comes Everybody, with Clay Shirky, Author
• Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, with Valdis Krebs, Founder, Orgnet.com
• Power to the People, with a panel from Supernova 2006
• Leveraging Social Media for Growth, with Jeremy Hogan, Director of Business Development, Lulu.com
• Insights in Fielding Social Media Systems, with Jake McKee a Social Media Evangelist
• Social Applications, a panel discussion at Where 2005 at O'Reilly Media Where 2.0 Conference
  
• 360: Switched At Birth, This American Life
• Running at the Ancient Olympics, Phedippidations
• Fitness Rocks
• 106 - Diet and Skin Cancer
• 107 - Weight Loss with Low-Fat, Low-Carb, and Mediterranean Diets

Data

August 10, 2008: Birmingham, AL Shades Creek-Crestline Running
Distance:	13.11 Miles
Time:	2:04:32
Heart Rate:	146
Pace:	9:29
Weather:	Clear Temperature-71° Humidity-68%
Route

August 9, 2008: Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain State Park Cycling
Distance:	23.75 Miles
Time:	1:21:09
Heart Rate:	136
Speed:	17.56
Weather:	Clear Temperature-69° Humidity-65%
Route

August 8, 2008: Blythewood, SC Community Road Running
Distance:	6.12 Miles
Time:	56:11
Heart Rate:	148
Pace:	9:10
Weather:	Clear Temperature-74° Humidity-93%
Route

August 6, 2008: Blythewood, SC Community Road Running
Distance:	6.1 Miles
Time:	57:32
Heart Rate:	152
Pace:	9:25
Weather:	Clear Temperature-75° Humidity-94%
Route

August 5, 2008: Blythewood, SC Community Road Running
Distance:	3.22 Miles
Time:	29:40
Heart Rate:	145
Pace:	9:12
Weather:	Clear Temperature-75° Humidity-87%
Route

July 22-August 3: Running & Cycling in Birmingham, & Vacation

What a busy 2 weeks! I ran a few times, went on vacation to Walt Disney World, ran some more, and bought the new iPhone since last blogging here.

I bought the new iPhone yesterday. I asked one of the Apple geniuses how to move my address book from the old iPhone to the new one. He told me to swap SIMs to get contacts moved using the Import from SIM feature. It didn't work. Instead, I simply plugged the new iPhone up to computer and it asked to restore from backup, I said yes! I had seen somewhere on the net while checking on getting the new iPhone, that I should sync before going to the store and I had done so. Well, this worked beautifully. I did get the proverbial loss of about 6 podcasts as I have described in the past. I had to associate these entries in iTunes with the files I downloaded manually. I also lost my library while at Disney and had to manually recover that too. iPhone rocks. iTunes sucks and rocks. By the way, my old iPhone is for sale on eBay (see picture).

I listened to these Podcasts:

• This American Life, show 359: Life After Death
• Openness and the Future of Mobile Technology, by Rich Miner,Group Manager, Wireless Platforms, Google on IT Conversations
• Enterprise Social Software, by Christian Gray, Craig Honick on Technometria on IT Conversations
• Latest episodes of the Daily Source Code (Adam is going off the deep end on conspiracy theories), Phedippidations, and Fitness Rocks.

I went to Disney World and had a smashing good time. I ate badly. I didn't exercise. I had so much fun with my son it was amazing!

And before I forget, Motionbased is having trouble syncing with my Garmin Forerunner 305 again!

Data

August 3, 2008: Birmingham, AL Brownell-Shades Creek-Crestline Running
Distance:	14.2 Miles
Time:	2:26:12
Heart Rate:	147
Pace:	10:17
Weather:	Clear Temperature-74° Humidity-79%
Route

August 2, 2008: Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain State Park Cycling
Distance:	23.7 Miles
Time:	1:21:42
Heart Rate:	141
Speed:	17.41 mph
Weather:	Haze Temperature-80° Humidity-81%
Route

July 24, 2008: Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain State Park Cycling
Distance:	23.7 Miles
Time:	1:25:19
Heart Rate:	134
Speed:	16.67 mph
Weather:	Haze Temperature-85° Humidity-57%
Route

July 23, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	6.18 Miles
Time:	58:39
Heart Rate:	148
Pace:	9:29
Weather:	Haze Temperature-77° Humidity-79%

July 22, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running
Distance:	3 Miles
Time:	28:36
Heart Rate:	143
Pace:	9:31
Weather:	Clear Temperature-80° Humidity-60%