3 friends and I ran in he USMC Mud Run and it was a blast. We ran for fun, so don't look for us on the medal stand. We had 4 goals and we met them:
- Have fun
- Function as a team (stay together)
- Negotiate every obstacle
- Finish
I did not dry up and pass away. Just been doing 80+ hour work weeks and have simply not been able to get to tertiary tasks like blogging by few exploits. Man, the times they are a hopping at work and in the market. It is hard to believe the mess made by the financial industry. The whole derivative thing and the practices that surrounded and really hurt the market. And after listening to This American Life's show #363: The Enforcers, I agree with McCain in that "Cox should be fired." In the show, several snippets from meetings with Congress are played wherein Cox is asked questions like: "Do you need more people, larger budget?", "Do you additional legislative help?", etc. All with an eye towards enforcing and shoring up the financial industry. Cox seemed to think everything was fine and soon announced that the temporary fix was to explicitly restrict naked short selling for 19 organizations. Naked short selling was already illegal.
I loaded the 2.1 operating system for the iPhone and now one of playlists will not lists the shows that show up in iTunes and on the iPod. The shows are on the iPhone (the playlist is a playlist of playlists). The playlist is on the iPhone. But, the shows are not in it. Gees!
I had a server running from my house that got hacked. I couldn't figure out what exploit was used and how. I searched based on what I saw on the machine and found nothing. Given that I have so little time and that files seemed to be intact and passed virus scans, I simply sucked off the files I needed and reformatted the drive. I feel so violated. I hope the hacker got his jollies.
I learned about Firebug, a plug-in for Firefox and it just rocks. I lets you see all the definitions associated with displayed web page. It's awesome for debugging what css tag is governing the a particular element's display and such. Lot's more than this there.
I checked my cholesterol on September 14 and it was 169! Yeppee!
I listened to these podcasts:
- Daily Source Code
- Phedippidations
- Fitness Rocks
- 111: Muscular Strength and Risk of Mortality
- 112: Lead and Mercury Contamination in Ayurvedic MedicinesReferences
- This American Life
- IT Conversations
From these podcasts, I heard several points I intend to follow up on once I have time:
- Need to checkout Findbugs.
- Mark Rolston's line "looks like the technology underneath" which isn't a compliment and is a concept for consideration during software design
- Two major java programming frameworks (not presentation layer like Struts, MVC, etc.)
- EJB's evolution pace and its impact on EJB adoption and the emergence of rebel frameworks (spring, hibernate, etc.)
Data
 September 24, 2008: Birmingham, ALNeighborhood Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 6.19 Miles |
| Time: | 57:38 |
| Heart Rate: | 146 |
| Pace: | 9:18 |
| Weather: | Clear Temperature-78° Humidity-40% |
| September 23, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 3 Miles |
| Time: | 27:37 |
| Heart Rate: | 152 |
| Pace: | 9:12 |
| Weather: | Partly cloudy Temperature-78° Humidity-52% |
| September 21, 2008: Birmingham, AL Brownell-Crestline-Shades Creek Loop Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 11 Miles |
| Time: | 1:39:10 |
| Heart Rate: | 150 |
| Pace: | 9:00 |
| Weather: | Clear Temperature-77° Humidity-52% |
| Route | |
| September 19, 2008: Birmingham, AL Blythewood, SC Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 6.22 Miles |
| Time: | 54:45 |
| Heart Rate: | 147 |
| Pace: | 8:48 |
| Weather: | Clear Temperature-62° Humidity-80% |
| Route | |
| September 17, 2008: Birmingham, AL Blythewood, SC Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 6.06 Miles |
| Time: | 55:56 |
| Heart Rate: | 150 |
| Pace: | 9:13 |
| Weather: | Overcast Temperature-68° Humidity-90% |
| Route | |
| September 16, 2008: Birmingham, AL Blythewood, SC Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 3.11Miles |
| Time: | 28:18 |
| Heart Rate: | 142 |
| Pace: | 9:05 |
| Weather: | Overcast Temperature-74° Humidity-93% |
| Route | |
| September 14, 2008: Birmingham, AL Brownell-Shades Creek-Crestline Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 13 Miles |
| Time: | 2:07:41 |
| Heart Rate: | 144 |
| Pace: | 9:49 |
| Weather: | Mostly cloudy Temperature-76° Humidity-79% |
| Route | |
 September 13, 2008: Birmingham, ALOak Mountain State Park Cycling | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 23.83 Miles |
| Time: | 1:22:08 |
| Heart Rate: | 133 |
| Speed: | 17.41 mph |
| Weather: | Clear Temperature-77° Humidity-74% |
| Route | |
| September 12, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 6.26 Miles |
| Time: | 58:37 |
| Heart Rate: | 158 |
| Pace: | 9:21 |
| Weather: | Mostly cloudy Temperature-79° Humidity-74% |
| September 10, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 6.22 Miles |
| Time: | 58:43 |
| Heart Rate: | 141 |
| Pace: | 9:26 |
| Weather: | Clear Temperature-71° Humidity-87% |
| September 9, 2008: Birmingham, AL Neighborhood Running | |
|---|---|
| Distance: | 3Miles |
| Time: | 28:15 |
| Heart Rate: | 143 |
| Pace: | 9:24 |
| Weather: | Clear Temperature-70° Humidity-90% |
