Monday, July 31, 2006

Short update

Not too much to report really.

1) I fell in love with Filet Mignon.
2) Bushwackers is still the same old thing. We are getting DESTROYED in drums.
3) I fixed my map thing is working for IE. However, now it doesn't work on the Linux system I have at home. Ugh. Oh well There were a few runs in there where the gps was on a bad setting. Wes, I don't know if you have tried the "less smooting" option. But that sucks unless you are going in a ton of straight lines. I have removed some of the extra laps on the actual device and I haven't updated them yet on the server. Soon.
4) With the runs, i'm up to 5.5+ miles per run. The last runs I've had were awesome. Take a look at July 25th and July 27th. Its a cool place to run. Right by the airport and almost to the monuments. My goal is to be able to run around all of the monuments. Or at least the ones on the mall. Stoked!

I think that is about it.

Monday, July 17, 2006

ical and todo lists

My old working pal Karthik told me about this site Remember The Milk back when I was working in Herndon and I've been hooked on it ever since. It is a TODO list built on an AJAX style front end. I totally dig it. I think I dig the whole AJAX feel more than the actual functionality.

That's not entirely true. I find that I am pretty much bound to TODO lists. As soon as I couldn't bring my PDA into work I became less productive. When I was in school I ALWAYS had a todo list on my PDA and I was happy because I was always getting things done. Anyway, RTM is a great little TODO app. You can use the ical feed in a whole bunch of different mac products and google products for an overload of reminders. I'm pretty pleased with that. I'd recommend that everyone try using it for a few weeks to see if you can boost productivity at all.

As for ical, I'm starting to get a little more into that on my mac. I've been using Google Calendar for quite some time and the integration to ical using ical was pretty seamless. So that is fun. I feel like I am getting more productive as a result of that.

I'm trying to get more into my mac and use some of the features that are unique to that type of machine. The automator thing seems like a good thing, but then again, it also just feels like a script front end. Oh well.

The athletic tracker is fun to play with. I'm working on putting a better run selection thing on it. I was throwing around the idea of using google calendar as a storage facility for runs but that will be a pain I think.

Oh...one of my lists on RTM is "things to do when drumcorps is over". So yeah, that should explain how that is going. :(

I start taking the metro to work everyday starting tomorrow. That will give me tons of time to watch movies and or read books and stuff. That'll be fun. I'm excited about that.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Running Log

So with my new GPS of course came with some sexy coding opportunities. If you have firefox, check this out: AthleticTracker.

Pretty fun. Still working some of the kinks out. I'd go ahead and give this a freeze as version 1 though.

Version 2 will have some more information built into it I think. Totals and speed and altitude and stuff.

Anyway, its written in Python in the back with some AJAX frontend stuff. Doesn't work in IE so don't even bother. Unless of course you know how to fix it. I'm not concerned about it though.