Year: 2006
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When all else fails, just raise your feet
New York Times article about marathons, in preparation for this morning’s race “Everything You Know About Marathons Is Wrong.” The fear of dehydration and hot weather is overrated, and cramps don’t happen because of improper fueling. Unclear how certain this science is, but matches my experiences more. “We completely changed the way we treat patients,”…
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Sadness is losing all your contacts
At work today, Mac OS X Address Book just blanked at some point. Hundreds of contacts gone. The Treo still had the information, so I carefully checked Missing Sync (which I use to sync the Treo) and made sure it was set to Synchronize, not Overwrite Handheld. Mistake… there was no setting for Handheld overwrite…
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Tuesday track: 800m, six times
It’s been six weeks since my last time on the track, and seven weeks since I last did 800m repeats. Yesterday morning, I joined Billy in the early morning at Kezar once more, and put in six 800m pieces, with 400m jogging between each one (plenty of rest). We didn’t go after it early…the first…
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David Pogue touts OpenDNS
As noted on the OpenDNS corporate blog, David Pogue learned about OpenDNS, gave it a try, and loved it, according to what he wrote on his NYTimes.com blog today: My wife and I are totally loving the new speed. Don’t tell Open DNS [sic], but we even would have paid for it. Back in the…
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Ninety minutes of voting not enough
I spent 90 minutes doing my civic duty with the absentee ballot this evening, and I’m not quite done. While I’m not going to share my votes, I will say that the lingering indecision is on Proposition 87 (the tax on California oil production to spur alternative energy sources) and on the competing (?) flood…
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Book: The Twenty-One Balloons
On Monday morning, I had finished my previous book and was “stranded” on the plane without anything else to read, I raided the boy’s backpack for one of his new birthday gifts: The Twenty-One Balloons. What a fun tale. Written in 1947 by William Pène du Bois, Twenty-One Balloons won a Newberry Medal the following…
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Book: The Mark of the Assassin
Daniel Silva wrote The Mark of the Assassin in 1998. This book is pretty much your standard terrorist/spy thriller, but not crafted like Robert Ludlum at his best. Reminder: ignore Ludlum’s current re-incarnation (literally, since he’s dead) as a “brand” for new novels. Mark of the Assassin was Silva’s second novel. If you followed that…
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Comments back on the home page
When I switched WordPress themes many moons ago, I “lost” the comments link at the end of each post as it appears on the home page. It was a simple theme edit, which I just resolved now. If you’re curious, the missing line of code was: < ?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '%…
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Representing PhishTank on local television
Last week, the local CBS affiliate followed up on Allison’s suggestion that they cover PhishTank as part of their Consumer Watch program. David was out of town. So, while Mike did the bulk of the coding, Aaron brought the design together to make PhishTank easy on the eyes and mouse clicks, Allison reached out (with…
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Choosing the right PHP forum software: table of contents
At work, I need to pick the right forum software to run on OpenDNS.com. We’ve discussed the possibilities informally a few times, but the burst of activity — and resulting customer support — triggered by two print articles made this project more important. I’m going to share my research and the final decision in a…