Netflix just told me my prior taste preferences have created a new category: "Goofy foreign sci-fi fantasy." Geek. # Ran 16 miles in 2 hours and 7 mins and 43 secs and felt good. Casual-pace 16-miler with Curt from Bedford on … http://dailymile.com/e/NT0L # Another cool Calibre feature – use RSS feeds to build your […]
My wife got me a Kindle for Christmas this year, and from day one I’ve loved it. I’d spent some time with both tablets (iPad) and the Kindle for work last year and had a chance to dig in and understand the virtues of both. In the case of an ereader like the Kindle, it’s […]
My impression of "The Departed"? All the cops & bad guys sound like writers trying to sound like bad guys trying to sound like writers. # Ran 16 miles in 1 hour and 56 mins and felt good. Mega-windy Manchester-to-Goffstown 16-miler with 13 at race pace. … http://bit.ly/fiOw7x # RT @catholictide: Be gentle to all […]
You usually have to give up some sleep/rest time to work marathon training runs in when traveling for business. On the other hand, today’s frigid February New England winds remind of the upside of those on-the-road runs… nice warm 65F mornings on paths like this one along the harbor in San Diego a few weeks […]
The April 2011 Boston Marathon sold out last fall in about 8 hours, leaving may fast runners out of the race. (This compared with 10-weeks-to-sell-out period in 2010, the year I ran it.) In response, organizers have rolled out a plan to tighten the qualifying times and change to a rolling registration process based on […]
Came across a tidbit in the most recent Men’s Journal (March 2011) that cited a University Hospital of Ulm, Germany, study, saying, “while endurance runners can suffer plenty of bone fractures and joint problems that need rest to heal, they’re able to run through most muscle pain, especially in the upper and lower legs, without […]
LinkedIn use up from 3% in Jul '10 to 20% in Jan '11 on B2B sites. Finance and high tech top. Infographic from gigya: http://ow.ly/3VsD4 # New Facebook Page layout allows businesses and groups more expression: http://ow.ly/3VsAA # Ran 5.07 miles in 43 mins and felt good. Recovery pace 5.07 up and down the hills […]
Underscoring the continued importance of LinkedIn as a social media channel, for business and in general, a growing number of B2B site users who login to a site with an existing social media identity are choosing their LinkedIn identity. (Check out this post and cool info-graphic from gigya.) In July 2010 3% of logins used […]
RT @themusedaily The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter. – Albee # Cool video of nature adapting to human refuse – an octopus living in a beer bottle: http://ow.ly/3Rbvf # Ah, savage Eurclydon, restrain yourself until after today's […]