Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Nov. 12-23: Run, Riding, Working, and Listening Pleasures

OK, that's a sick title. I seem to be in a constant cycle of trying to catch up on work and, for that matter, life. But, I guess that is what comes with age. You become more cognizant of how much time is left, not enough, you pile on the tasks, and you just never finish. In the current times, I guess I should be thankful I am employed and I ain't bored. Life could be worse.

I traveled to Texas last week and talked about social computing which is a topic that is growing more and more dear to me. I got more animated and fired up than I expected. But, that was a good thing to have happen while in front of an audience where you are expected to lead a conversation. I think I did well and the session was well received. In the rest of my time, I am trying to deliver on the substance of the message by working with a team of folks to actually configure, populate, and manage a social site.

I have to rave about Pandora on the iPhone. Search for a few songs you like, it finds things like it. Vote up or down on some as they come and it learns what you like. Commercial free music tailored for your taste. Totally awesome.

I got fired up while running today, after 14 miles and started ranting (play ranting anyway) and the guy who organizes the runs scolded me. "Bob, some of us are focused on finishing..." Opps, I didn't mean to irritate people, but I can get full of adrenaline and get full of myself.

This week's (I know it's been a little more than a week) podcast listening log:
Data

November 23, 2008: Birmingham, AL
Mercedes Course + 2
Running
Distance: 15.14 Miles
Time: 2:26:00
Heart Rate: 137
Pace: 9:38
Weather: Overcast
Temperature-45°
Humidity-34%
Route

November 22, 2008: Birmingham, AL
Oak Mountain State Park
Cycling
Distance: 23.93 Miles
Time: 1:29:0
Heart Rate: 132
Speed: 16.13
Weather: Clear
Temperature-26°
Humidity-55%
Route I parked by the lake and came in the back gate. New route.

November 21, 2008: Birmingham, AL
Neighborhood
Running
Distance: 8.05 Miles
Time: 1:10:44
Heart Rate: 150
Pace: 8:47
Weather: Clear
Temperature-32°
Humidity-45%

November 20, 2008: Birmingham, AL
Neighborhood
Running
Distance: 2.16 Miles
Time: 19:01
Heart Rate: 136
Pace: 8:48
Weather: Clear
Temperature-56°
Humidity-47%

November 19, 2008: Birmingham, AL
Neighborhood
Running
Distance: 10 Miles
Time: 1:30:30
Heart Rate: 142
Pace: 9:03
Weather: Clear
Temperature-33°
Humidity-54%

November 18, 2008: Birmingham, AL
Neighborhood
Running
Distance: 7.04 Miles
Time: 1:03:44
Heart Rate: 145
Pace: 9:03
Weather: Clear
Temperature-31°
Humidity-69%

November 16, 2008: Birmingham, AL
Brownell-Crestline
Running
Distance: 13 Miles
Time: 2:02:10
Heart Rate: 140
Pace: 9:23
Weather: Overcast
Temperature-37°
Humidity-62%
Route

November 15, 2008: Birmingham, AL
Oak Mountain State Park
Cycling
Distance: 23.82 Miles
Time: 1:26:20 (estimate, forgot the watch)
Heart Rate: 132
Speed: 16.55
Weather: Overcast
Temperature-50°
Humidity-86%
Route

November 14, 2008: Birmingham, AL
Neighborhood
Running
Distance: 6.97 Miles
Time: 1:03:28
Heart Rate: 146
Pace: 9:06
Weather: Fog
Temperature-61°
Humidity-93%

November 13, 2008: Dallas, TX
Gaylord Texan Resort
Running
Distance: 2.22 Miles
Time: 18:46
Heart Rate: 145
Pace: 8:27
Weather: Clear
Temperature-49°
Humidity-93%
Route
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Sept 7-24: Running & Cycling in 2 States, Yes I'm Still Alive

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:

  1. Have fun
  2. Function as a team (stay together)
  3. Negotiate every obstacle
  4. Finish
Checkout the pictures directly on Flickr if you don't like embedded reader below):

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:

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, AL
Neighborhood
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, AL
Oak 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%
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Sunday, August 03, 2008

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:

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%
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Jan 22-26, 2008: 4 Runs in the Birmingham, AL: 5, 8, 5 & 3 Miles

I kept up with the Daily Source Code, This American Life, and Phedippidations. Adam keeps going on what the heck are we doing in Afghanistan and Irag. For Afghanistan, I believe we were absolutely just in going in. Iraq, we were not, but we did. Given the tactics and the quite apparent evilness of the Taliban, we simply can't abandon Afghanistan and let them resume the hellish control they had before. Not to mention their welcoming stance to Bin Laden. For Iraq, we created the mess, we have to make sure civility is achieved before we leave.

Which reminds me, a friend of mine sent me a link to a website where you can answer some questions and they score your answers against the Democratic and Republican candidates for the U.S. Presidency race in 2008. Thanks to my Iraq position, I come out favoring several Republican candidates. I haven't made up my mind how I'm voting yet, but this quiz is helping me shape my investigation and thoughts. I do wish McCain was younger.

And, IBM did not release the Notes client for the iPhone as some had predicted. :( Add to that, an idiot analyst apparently said:

However, Kevin McIsaac, an analyst at research firm IBRS, said he's not sure Lotus Notes will have a large impact on enterprise adoption of the device. "I can't really imagine someone who's really hip and cool--like an iPhone user--wanting to use Lotus Notes," he said.

Like no cool person happens to work for a company who has choosen Notes as the corporate email system. Give me a break. Note to self=>Upon noticing any analyst report authored by Kevin McIsaac, execute skeptic reception.

Data

January Total:
138 Miles
2008 Total:
138 Miles

01/26/2008: Local YMCA Gym (Inside track)
Distance: 3 Miles
Time: 26:16
Heart Rate: 157
Pace: 8:45
Weather: Cloudy, Light fog
Temperature-34°
Humidity-89%

01/25/2008: Neighborhood
Distance: 5 Miles
Time: 45:40
Heart Rate: 148
Pace: 9:07
Weather: Mostly cloudy
Temperature-39°
Humidity-31%

01/23/2008: Neighborhood
Distance: 8 Miles
Time: 1:13:09
Heart Rate:152
Pace: 9:08
Weather: Cloudy
Temperature-38°
Humidity-76%

01/22/2008: Neighborhood
Distance: 5 Miles
Time: 47:00
Heart Rate:152
Pace: 9:24
Weather: Clear
Temperature-39°
Humidity-65%
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