Asymptomatic

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Watch Computing
July 11, 2009

I’ve been casting about online for some kind of portable training device, something that can keep track of my time on the road while I train for a particular race later this year. There are quite a few options for watches, each with options of their own.

One of the more fascinating watch brands out there is Suunto. There are a couple of other makes that have similar capabilities, but Suunto looks to have expanded on an interesting idea of connecting wirelessly to peripherals like a chest-worn heart-rate monitor, a bike cadence monitor, and even a GPS. The watch acts as a central processor for the peripherals, receiving, recording, and presenting a subset of the information, and then relaying it (via USB tether) to a computer for more intense processing and output.

Is Contenture working for you?
July 01, 2009

I fear it is not working for me. When I added Contenture codes to this site back when they opened the doors to the public, I thought it was a system with a lot of promise. Today, I’m not so sure.

Looking at my Contenture dashboard today, I can see how much I’ve earned by putting the Contenture code on my site. A whopping $0.52. Any money is more money than nothing, you might say. But there’s more to it than that.

Palm Pre Wanted Apps List
June 21, 2009

After playing with the Pre and the 30 applications that are available for it, I’ve come up with a short list of applications that I’d really like to have.

Also, cut and paste is nice. But. I want to do it when I’m holding down the gesture areas, not the keys. Left side can be cursor movement (like the option key) and right side can be selection (like the shift key), or vice-versa. I don’t want to have to open the keyboard to select text.

Stupid Maintenance Mode
June 21, 2009

I upgraded Habari to the latest 0.7, where all of the plugin configuration has changed, and I put my site into maintenance mode while I was doing it so that visitors wouldn’t break stuff while I was working.

And I forgot to turn off Maintenance Mode.

post 4
June 16, 2009

Duke Littleton invited a select number of guests - only 40 couples or so - to attend a cocktail party on the night prior to the public opening of his new exhibit at the Rocks. His scavenged collection had created quite a stir in the media, and Roberta and I were among the couples lucky enough to score one of the coveted invitations.

Our fortune likely had less to do with our rung on the social ladder that the fact that Duke and I were the sole survivors of our ill-fated camping trip to the Adirondacks during our graduate years at university. I won’t relive the experience now by its retelling, but please suffice with the explanation that we’ve had a deep bond ever since. Where Duke’s typical Littleton family aloofness inspires him to recognize this bond by issuing invitations for me and my wife to the occasional social function, I fear my recognition of the same is merely in accepting them.