Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 9:29AM Technically, its the 40th Anniversary of my birthday. I figured I should write something down today so when I am reminiscing 80 years from now, I will remember how it felt to be so young. If you aren't my future self reading this, well maybe it will give you a bit of insight into my life. If you aren't interested in that, why are you here on my site?
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 7:56AM For the last couple of weeks I have been focusing on tracking my calories, in and out. Much of it has been with the help of a great app my wife found called Calorie Counter on the Android. Calorie counter links to fatsecret.com which has a database of foods and exercise that you can enter in to keep track of your progress. A great feature of the app on my G1 is that I can scan a barcode and more likely than not, the food is in the database already. This makes it very easy to keep track of during the day. Although I have been trying to eat balanced with not too much of anything, I am not trying a low carb diet at this point. Just trying to keep the calories I am eating less than the calories my body is comsuming. You can see my progress at the fatsecret site.
Yesterday after walking my three miles in the morning (at about 3 mph). I was feeling pretty good and decided that today I would try to move up to jogging. Although I was able to run/jog down the street, I felt a lot impact on my legs and on my body in general. I decided that I would just try to increase the speed I was walking until I could lose more wieght and try to run again. So I completed 2 miles this morning in just over 30 minutes and could definately feel some muscle pain/soreness in my calves shins. So I will try to work on that speed for the next while until I feel pretty comfortable doing that for one hour or more.
android, exercise, t-mobile g1, weight loss in android, journal Friday, September 4, 2009 at 9:49AM The High Scalability Blog featured Squarespace recently and it was interesting overview of some of the technology that my site runs on. I have to admit that I feel a bit guilty not running on Dotnetnuke or another Microsoft platform but I do like the ease of use of Squarespace. I encountered Squarespace much the same way that Todd @ High Scalability did, through advertising on Twit.TV.
My main wish is that Squarespace was a bit more extensible. I'd like to add my own modules. I'd probably even plug through Java to do it if I had to. I'd really like to overhaul the Kingdom of Atenveldt Order of Precedence and put it on a platform that runs fast and is consistantly reliable. This weekend I plan on spending some time on the site, upgrading to the latest version of DNN and maybe working on the skin a bit. I have had a couple of designers show interest in helping me make a skin but nothing has ever come through with it. Maybe I can bring some more life back to the DNN based Atenveldt site with a bit of TLC. (tender loving care, not the learning channel... )
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