Archives / 2007 / February
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Ran my first 5K race today...
Sunday, February 11, 2007Back in the summer I jumped back into fitness by signing up for the 20/20 program at the Pro Club. 20/20 is a serious weight loss program that involves both diet change (I'd characterize it as South Beach in style) and five workouts a week (including three with a personal trainer). Well, it has been quite successful so far, bringing my weight down from around 189 to about 160 over the past 5 months, and it has had the side affect of getting me back into running. I've been running off and on for a long time, but ever since [read more...]Filed under | 5 comments »Share this -
Universal HD (relatively new channel) is awesome
Friday, February 09, 2007If you have digital cable from Comcast, including HD service, then go up into the 600's and try to find the new Universal HD channel. Repeats of shows like Firefly, Battlestar Galatica (new series, not old), The Equalizer, Knight Rider... and tons more, all in HD. I watched an episode of Firefly last night in HD and it was wonderful! [read more...]Share this -
Ever send yourself an email and then click on the 'you have new mail' alert a moment later?
Thursday, February 08, 2007I send myself email... which sounds more pathetic than it is. I just use it as a way to hang onto links or notes to myself (do this, watch this, etc...). I do it all the time. Every once in awhile though, right after I send something to myself I see the 'new mail' pop up on my computer and I click on it wondering 'hey, what's that...'. And then I feel silly. [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Get great video for your Zune, courtesy of Sony
Wednesday, February 07, 2007I stumbled upon the PSP Connect site a few weeks ago, and I've been really enjoying it as a source of video for my Zune. This site, since it is aimed at the PSP, has a ton of great 320x240 MP4 content, including a lot of popular viral videos, movie trailers (of all the upcoming Sony movies for sure) and even ongoing series such as the 'Spartan' and 'Borg' series of machinima. Lots of this content is available elsewhere, but on this site you can download good quality versions without having to hack out some flash video (like YouTube or [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Channel 9 and 10 Corvettes
Tuesday, February 06, 2007I'm not sure if there is a tool to make these or why someone did them... but I'm still glad they did :) [read more...]Share this -
Great Vista Ad
Tuesday, February 06, 2007I was telling the folks at work about this one yesterday, my wife and I had been watching the Daily Show when it came on and although we never watch commercials, we silently watched this entire one. We were very impressed... and then the Vista logo came up and we were stunned. Good work on this one, Vista Marketing Team :) Video: Windows Vista "Wow" ad [read more...]Share this -
SportsDo - GPS based activity tracking
Monday, February 05, 2007My previous post about the Nike+ system left me searching for a similar solution for non-iPod users... without a lot of luck, but Mark let me know about http://www.sportsdo.net, which is very cool. This site/software uses any GPS enabled Windows Mobile device to produce some useful info about your activity (running, skiing, whatever). I'm interested and I'll probably enjoy using it, but it isn't really going to compete with the Nike+ system for two reasons: The first reason is that GPS isn't a great solution for this type of use, especially for someone (me) who does at least half their runs on a [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Nike+ actually makes me consider an iPod
Friday, February 02, 2007If you know me, or read my blog much, you'll probably gather that I've fully bought into the WMA/WMV world. I've always been a bit annoyed at the iPod model of things as well... I mean, seriously, you can only use iTunes with iPods and iPods with iTunes... talk about crazy... people need choice, who wants to be locked into one music player or one music store?!? Of course, I don't get to rant about that anymore, now that we are doing the exact same thing with Zune... I don't like it any better just because we are doing it, [read more...]Share this
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