Ok so this weekend I went a bit mental on the running front. I went for a 2.5km run every day, at least twice on one day, gymed like crazy and pretty much pushed myself cardio cardiovascularly. Something obvious next: It's way better to run in the evening, I found I could go further for longer than say I ran in the sun, duh.
After clocking quite a few Kms into my Garmin 405 I'm hoping for some good looking stats for this month. It's pretty amazing how great one feels after a run - perhaps and aquired feeling. Can't ever being amped to go for a run!
Installed Win7 on my laptop - thing flies, I swear I could hear it say "thanks man, really needed that - XP was killing me". The tablet functionality is enough to warrant the upgrade besides the performance and with that I decided to set myself up in the cloud... yeah pretty much got myself my own private "cloud" running on my server - not managed by someone else and it's pretty satisfying. I guess in a way it is being managed as my linux server is a hosted/managed VPS but I have so much control over what data is where, what ports are open, the security system I use to lock down the server etc...much more so than any cloud service i guess? So in that way, setting up my server in a controlled way is really OK by me. I SSL'ed the web front end and my server is pretty well locked down(no that wasn't a challenge...I know you could!)
The server side cloudy software is called Tonido. I wrote a blog tutorial on how to get it up and running on a setup like mine. Really cool thing is that I can access my clouds data(it's really just my server's data) from anywhere and it's also accessible via a Tonido iPhone app. Bonus!
Once I got that sorted, found myself intrigued by 24-hour analogue clock faces. My watch has a 24-hour scale with world time but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use it! Even browsing the web until 3am, ahem I mean 03:00, I still havent made real progress, but I've learnt a lot!
I've got the National Geographic Pharoah watch. It's way confusing for my brain. As the result, Im pretty intrigued by how different you need to think reading a 24-hour clock face. Like for instance, the hands are totally not where you'd expect them traditional 12,3,6 and 9 positions are totally all over the place but if you read the numbers in relation to the hands you get the 24 hour time, like 22:24 as there is 22 on the clockface. I'm tired now....
Kinda found myself watching YouTube clips, check twitter - I stuck the links on there and was laughing and whimpering(soldier homecomings are pretty emotional *sniff* ah, I mean whatever you know). It was because I also added a video roll of my uploaded YouTube clips to my site - so partly my fault using it to watch YouTube.
Kinda think that I need to get out more...
I hope I sat awake today :-)
After clocking quite a few Kms into my Garmin 405 I'm hoping for some good looking stats for this month. It's pretty amazing how great one feels after a run - perhaps and aquired feeling. Can't ever being amped to go for a run!
Installed Win7 on my laptop - thing flies, I swear I could hear it say "thanks man, really needed that - XP was killing me". The tablet functionality is enough to warrant the upgrade besides the performance and with that I decided to set myself up in the cloud... yeah pretty much got myself my own private "cloud" running on my server - not managed by someone else and it's pretty satisfying. I guess in a way it is being managed as my linux server is a hosted/managed VPS but I have so much control over what data is where, what ports are open, the security system I use to lock down the server etc...much more so than any cloud service i guess? So in that way, setting up my server in a controlled way is really OK by me. I SSL'ed the web front end and my server is pretty well locked down(no that wasn't a challenge...I know you could!)
The server side cloudy software is called Tonido. I wrote a blog tutorial on how to get it up and running on a setup like mine. Really cool thing is that I can access my clouds data(it's really just my server's data) from anywhere and it's also accessible via a Tonido iPhone app. Bonus!
Once I got that sorted, found myself intrigued by 24-hour analogue clock faces. My watch has a 24-hour scale with world time but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use it! Even browsing the web until 3am, ahem I mean 03:00, I still havent made real progress, but I've learnt a lot!
I've got the National Geographic Pharoah watch. It's way confusing for my brain. As the result, Im pretty intrigued by how different you need to think reading a 24-hour clock face. Like for instance, the hands are totally not where you'd expect them traditional 12,3,6 and 9 positions are totally all over the place but if you read the numbers in relation to the hands you get the 24 hour time, like 22:24 as there is 22 on the clockface. I'm tired now....
Kinda found myself watching YouTube clips, check twitter - I stuck the links on there and was laughing and whimpering(soldier homecomings are pretty emotional *sniff* ah, I mean whatever you know). It was because I also added a video roll of my uploaded YouTube clips to my site - so partly my fault using it to watch YouTube.
Kinda think that I need to get out more...
I hope I sat awake today :-)