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365 project – 122/365 – 1/26/2010

Today’s 365 project photo. As always the Flickr set is here.


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Horrible quality but if you look at the light, its hanging by a thread of a wire. I don’t know who would park under that.

365 project – 121/365 – 1/25/2010

Today’s 365 project photo. As always the Flickr set is here.


Sue to the humidity and climate every light was throwing off huge streaks through my windshield.

121/365 – 1/25/2010

Sue to the humidity and climate every light was throwing off huge streaks through my windshield.

Fun with fortune cookies #1

Starting a series on comical fortune cookies I receive. Here’s a good one. I still don’t even know what this one means. Any thoughts?

fortune cookie 1

Confucius say: lovers in triangle not on square.

Introduction to personal metadata

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of new tools, be it web apps  or gadgets, that help us keep track of the things we do on a daily basis. Wether it be tracking weight, food eating, exercise, sleep, or any of the many of other activities to track.
Personally I have been tracking certain activities for a few years, primarily my diet and exercise. Lately, I’ve been expanding the data that I track and the tools I use to track the data.
As they say you can’t manage what you can’t measure.
This is the beginning of series of posts in which I’m hopping to talk about the tools that I’m using and other tools that are out there to track and manage our actions, or as I call it “personal metadata”.  Brad Feld has had some interesting posts on this subject which he calls human instrumentation, Bryce also has discussed this as well.
Stay tuned to the tag personal metadata for details on the tools I’m using.

Lately I’ve seen a lot of new tools, be it web apps or gadgets, that help us keep track of the things we do on a daily basis. Wether it be tracking weight, food eating, exercise, sleep, or any of the many of other activities to track. Like my new fitbit.

Personally I have tracked certain activities for a few years, primarily my diet and exercise. Lately, I’ve been expanding the data that I track and the tools I use to track the data.

As they say you can’t manage what you can’t measure.

This is the beginning of series of posts in which I’m hopping to talk about the tools that I’m using and other tools that are out there to track and manage our actions, or as I call it “personal metadata”.  Brad Feld has had some interesting posts on this subject which he calls human instrumentation here, here, and here, Bryce Roberts also has discussed this, as as well.

Stay tuned to the tag personal metadata for details on the tools I’m using.

365 project – 120/ 365 – 1/24/2010

Today’s 365 project photo. As always the Flickr set is here.

fire hydrant

120/ 365 – 1/24/2010

fire hydrant

365 project – 117/365 – 1/21/2010

Today’s 365 project photo. As always the Flickr set is here.


Today's slightly different reading material, although I didn't actually get to read today.

117/365 – 1/21/2010

Today’s slightly different reading material, although I didn’t actually get to read today.

365 project – 116/365 – 1/20/2010

Today’s 365 project photo. As always the Flickr set is here.


Today's reading material. I wonder If I could do a pushup like that?

116/365 – 1/20/2010

Today’s reading material. I wonder If I could do a pushup like that?

365 project – 115/365 – 1/19/2010

Today’s 365 project photo. As always the Flickr set is here.


Which one should I use today?

115/365 – 1/19/2010

Which one should I use today?

My year as a vegetarian (nearly vegan)

Time flies by. It didn’t hit me on the day, but the other day I was reminded that it was just over a year ago (the anniversary would have been almost two weeks ago, on the 5th) I decided to become a vegetarian again (for the second time in my life). This time rather than chose the lacto-ovo route as I previously did many years ago, I chose to take it a steep or two further and become a strict vegetarian. Strict is basically vegan, which is what I tend to call it when dining out as most people have no idea what being a strict vegetarian is, but they tend to understand what vegan mean.

iTunes podcast sharing between computers

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I listen/ watch a LOT of podcasts and mange them through iTunes on my primary mac. I find it pretty easy to keep current on the audio ones by listening to them on my iPhone while working throughout the day, but the video podcasts just seem to pile up because they require more attention and are harder to multi-task to. As a result, they rarely get watched on my iPhone, in fact I don’t even sync most of them.

So I have been looking for a workflow solution to keep current and get through the backlog of video podcasts. While I spend a good amount of time in the mornings and evenings at my primary mac I find myself using most of the screen real estate for photo processing or other tasks which doesn’t leave me with a lot of room to play the video podcasts on this machine. Moreover, unlike audio podcasts, I have found when playing a video in a separate window iTunes does not advance to the next video when the current one finishes playing. This requires a lot of back and forth between what I’m working on and iTunes.