I figured, when you catch up with someone or even if you don't but see some acquaintance in the elevator at work say, they usually always want to know what's been going on - you know, it's the first thing they ask you..."...so what you been doing?" that I thought I should keep an activity log - a sort of list that I can refer to when they ask that question because my mind goes blank when they ask me that and even though I've been doing countless stuff, my mind fumbles around like a dribbling bafoon and seems to always come back with, "...ah nothing much". Maybe someone knows something I don't here, like they know that these few words, research has found, strategically arranged into a question like this will somehow by default deactivated all short-term memory. Wipe it clean kinda like that memory zapped that the Men In Black use to zap alien seeing civilians... you know what I'm talking about.

And the thing is, you always want to give a truthful answer but at times I'm rather tempted to stick it to 'em and say, "ah a little bit of this and a little bit of that...(you idiot)" but I'd be too guilty saying that.

Anyway going to change that, get one up on my good-for-nothing memory with this list I'm thinking about. I'm thinking it should be on my phone, I'll whip it out when some unsuspecting person decides to ask me, "so what you been up to?" or if some blabbering monkey asks me, "so, what you got planned this weekend - anything nice?"...well yes now that you ask....BANG! and I'll offload my next few days worth of stuff on their asses. Just like that. Then, after that, I'll ask them the same question, deactivate their little memory button and see how they freak-out, go apoplectic and fizzle-out. *Smile*

Watched some re-runs of Trollied last night, caught a few scenes that crack me up on my iPhone as video so I can laugh to them. Got some good runs in this weekend. Looking at my stats I average four 2.3km runs per week, including weekends. Pretty good.

Was pretty great to watch sone athletics also, of all things to watch - I love watching athletics so it was great to watch a bit of the world athletic championship hosted in Daegu, Korea.

Earlier on in the weekend I set off to London city, got a haircut and pretty much window shopped. Still after a PAW1500-7ver but no one has the titanium one in stock(but I'd buy it online anyway) I just wanted to see it in the flesh. Besides that, the stroll was good. Found the royal opera house in Covent Garden which was surprise. I really should do more theatre appearances and do some opera as well.

So it's Tuesday! Yesterday was a bank holiday. Yeah! But means we have a development meeting today which I can sorta be ok with :-) Feel very much like a milkshake today. Will have to do a bit of stroll around the local milker and cow shaker...

Been wondering about success lately. What it means for me, to me and perhaps what it means to everyone else. If I take a step back and separate myself from what it means to me and try to generalise the definition, I'm left with ideas of wealth, happiness and accomplishment.

Accomplishment in doing what you set out to do, wealth in finding ways to make yourself benefit financially from your endeavours and goals and happiness being either a product of accomplishing the prior(wealth and accomplishment) or something else related to your work.

Success at times seems to be a business that generates wealth and functions to fulfil a need. At times, it's the effect of your work on you and others that is a success. Might certainly be missing something here..

I suppose the interesting thing for me is trying to understand why these definitions exist, should they apply to my life or how different my definition of success in life. I suppose it depends on what you define as your goal in life. Like getting married for one could be a goal, children? house? that could be your goal in life - that can be your success. But suppose, your goal is to leave a legacy, to be remembered, to stand out to do something exceptional. Not saying the other examples are not exceptional but they are more suited to the general generic purpose that us humans seem to reach every year, every decade every generation. Companies and business make and leave isolated legacy, most sales, best technological innovations, again not saying that the human condition is anything but technology advances but it's all to do with technology that we make important like computing, oil and such. Sure perhaps we improve the human condition because of this and that's perhaps thats how humans can make their mark. This is how most do it.

Unlike business successes, their are other kinds for instance mother teressa, Neil Armstrong, davinci, Mozart and others that haven't left their legacy in the wake of financial gain(again, not that that's a bad thing) and then you have the hybrids like Bill gates who'vr done a bit of everything, indeed philanthropists.

The more I write this post, the more evident it is that it has no inherent structure or definition but it serves well enough to explore my thoughts. Perhaps the most profound thought I have yet to fully explore is how and what my impact will be on this world.

One thing I'm fairly confident in though, is that one requires to start with a goal to reach. How one goes about reaching that goal, I suppose will be the story of your life.

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 :-)