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Long time no post

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I seem to be supper busy right now.  Spending time with the girls, running, and working (in order of preference) has taken most of my time.  Jo and Addy are doing great.  You can’t tell Rika had a baby a 2.5 months ago.  I’m in fair shape, but not as fast as I’d like to be running.

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Jo had a check up at the doctors last week and Addy came for moral support.  She is a really good big sister when she is not trying to make Jo dance while she is sleeping.

I downloaded a song called code monkey from Jonathan Coulton which all mediocre programmers  should listen too.  The clasic line in it is “write your own damn login page” and “functional but not elegant”.  Jo get it for Kaj!

It is already March, and I’m not sure where the time went.   It makes me miss the moments with Jo and Addy when I realize  how fast our lifes pass us by.  I’ve got to get on a plane but I’ll attempt to keep up on this blogging thing a bit better.

-NJT

Drupal

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

I’m playing around with Drupal an open source content management backend system for websites. I use wordpress on this site, but wanted something for a commerce type looking interface. Check it out at Drupal

Measuring distance of your runs

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

I have a GPS watch that is great for measuring distances and providing feedback during runs. However I find it gets tedious worrying about always wearing it and it detracts from the simplicity of running. Gadgets are what cycling is for right?

If you do want a good measure of your runs distance use google maps .

When you get to a map covering your run in google maps you can select the tab “my maps”. Under my maps there are various third party tools. One is a distance tool that allows you to measure interactively the distance between any number of points. The tool keeps track of the total distance for you.

Eye-Fi

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I have been using an Eye-Fi SD card in our digital point-and-shoot camera for a week now. I’ve been very impressed so far. As described by the vendor:

The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless memory card. It automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site.

No cables, no waiting, no hassles.

It functions as described and with no trouble photos are automatically uploaded to our computer and photo site (snapfish).

www.eye.fi/