Today would have been my Dad’s 74th birthday. He passed in ‘99.
I continue to miss him with no end. However, this year I vowed to take better care of myself. I’m now an avid runner, logging between 10 and 30 miles per week. If/When I kick the bucket, it won’t be because I’m not taking care of myself.
Regardless, I miss you terribly Dad. You’ve been and will always be a primary reason I am who and what I am today. For that, I’m beyond thankful and ultimately pleased.
Love,
Jason.
Just pushed an update to Twiike (figured why not make an update the same time Twitter was doing theirs).
Enhancements in this release:
Please keep it coming with the suggestions. I received a ton today and would love to know how to keep making it better for users.
Over the last couple weeks I’ve been getting more and more into running again. While I don’t have the gumption to go run on streets since breaking my foot, I have been hoofing it on the treadmill at least 3-4 times a week. The challenge has been that I love to update my Twitter and Facebook pages with my status and wanted a simple way to NOT have to update my runs by hand. So today I’m releasing a VERY alpha version of what I’m calling Twiike (Twitter+Nike). What it does is watch for me to sync my iPod after runs and posts those runs to Twitter (which I also have wired to update my Facebook status via the Twitter Facebook app).
It’s SUPER easy to use. Basically login to your Nike+ account, click ‘Share with Friends’ in the upper right corner of the run, click ‘Send to a friend,’ enter ‘nikeplus@twiike.com’ in the email address field and click the ‘Send it’ button. You’ll get a welcome mail that will link you to login and enter your Twitter account (or set one up if you don’t have one yet) and VOILA! Twiike will auto post to Twitter every time you sync after a run.
I’d love feedback on what people like and what people think sucks and where it can be improved enhanced.
Here’s what it looks like on Twitter
Came across this on FFFFound. Great ani-GIF of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline. Not sure why it’s so damn cool…but it is. LOVE the trunk floppin around!
With the recent redesign of Facebook, I’ve been getting questions regarding whether the add-on for Firefox is compatible with the newly redesigned version of Facebook. After confiming over the last couple weeks with some of the ~500 daily users and the 2,000+ downloaders who have shared emails, the current version of UltimateFacebook is not only fully-compatible with Firefox 3 (and naturally Firefox 2), but also with the newly redesigned version of Facebook. Install it by clicking here.
The add-on enables you to right-click any Facebook user and:
I’ve been teaching myself ObjC over the last 2 weeks and in one of the test projects I built, I ended up wanting to use a UITableView where an iPhone user could pick from a list of the states in the US. I tried to Google for one out of laziness and then ended up finding the basic entries I needed in some old project PHP code. Figured “sharing is caring” so here’s a simple NSMutableDictionary containing all of the states in the United States. Enjoy.
NSMutableDictionary *dStates;
dStates = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"AL - Alabama", @"AK - Alaska", @"AZ - Arizona", @"AR - Arkansas", @"CA - California", @"CO - Colorado", @"CT - Connecticut", @"DE - Delaware", @"DC - District of Columbia", @"FL - Florida", @"GA - Georgia", @"HI - Hawaii", @"ID - Idaho", @"IL - Illinois", @"IN - Indiana", @"IA - Iowa", @"KS - Kansas", @"KY - Kentucky", @"LA - Louisiana", @"ME - Maine", @"MD - Maryland", @"MA - Massachusetts", @"MI - Michigan", @"MN - Minnesota", @"MS - Mississippi", @"MO - Missouri", @"MT - Montana", @"NE - Nebraska", @"NV - Nevada", @"NH - New Hampshire", @"NJ - New Jersey", @"NM - New Mexico", @"NY - New York", @"NC - North Carolina", @"ND - North Dakota", @"OH - Ohio", @"OK - Oklahoma", @"OR - Oregon", @"PA - Pennsylvania", @"RI - Rhode Island", @"SC - South Carolina", @"SD - South Dakota", @"TN - Tennessee", @"TX - Texas", @"UT - Utah", @"VT - Vermont", @"VA - Virginia", @"WA - Washington", @"WV - West Virginia", @"WI - Wisconsin", @"WY - Wyoming", nil];
Today’s my Dad’s 73rd birthday. Well, it would have been. He passed away in ‘99.
There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t miss him and wish I we could talk. I could go on a tirade now about how people should take better care of themselves, as he died young because of just that. Go for a walk, ride, run, something…it all helps.
I Love You Dad-
J.
So over the last several months I, like tens of millions of people, have been using Facebook to find and stay in touch with friends and my biz network. As I used it more and more, I became more annoyed with how long it would take me to send messages, write on walls, etc. So I’ve written a Firefox add-on to make that easier. Called ‘UltimateFacebook,’ all you do is right-click a hyperlinked name in a news feed or a person’s profile image/thumbnail and a menu will appear. You can now send messages, write on walls, poke users and add or view friends with 1-click instead of the 2-3 it normally takes to get to the page to normally do the action. I’ve been playing with it for the last several months and have had about 300 people helping me test it. It’s rather stable at this point, but is an alpha product. Holler with ideas and/or feedback, but definitely try it out.
Click here to read more and try the add-on!
So driving this morning, I finally realized why I LOVE driving race cars so much. It’s the challenge and exhilaration of being on the edge but not over it. When I was a kid, I was the little turn who would poke someone just 1 time less than what it’d take to completely send them over the edge and, all the while, keeping me (somewhat) endearing. Yesterday, on the way home, I got my little car to solidly rotate into a turn (whoops happened to be on a public street) and it kinda just hit me. I had a smaller revelation the first time I got a racing car to rotate at Mid-Ohio, but this time it was different. The time it happened at Mid-O (and every time after), came from a tense ‘oh shit please keep me hooked up so I don’t die’ approach to a corner. This time, it was much more under control…and surprisingly…much smoother and quicker feeling. Guess it’s a tactile thing.
As I’ve read books like the Speed Secrets series and Skip Barber’s Going Faster, instructors and coaches always talk about being on the edge. But it wasn’t until this morning’s childhood regression that I finally connected the dots.
As we all (racing drivers that is) are trying to find ‘that thing’ that makes us faster. This is one barrier, I’m REALLY excited to have identified and broken through the was it feels like it should be.
|
