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Human guinea pig
When I go for my training runs, I feel like an experiment and loaded down with gear. You'd think I'd just grab my shoes and run, but no. First I strap on my heart rate monitor (it's quite cold putting it on as I put water on it to get a better reading), put on my Garmin Forerunner 305 on my wrist, put my iPod Nano on my arm using the armband holder, put my headphones in my ears, put on my RoadID wrist strap (I thought it was a good idea to carry some type of identification heaven forbid something happened to me), and my sunglasses. It's a routine to get ready for a quick run!
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More waste of taxpayer money
I was reading in this morning newspaper about the ongoing battle between the San Diego County Airport Authority and the military about exploring the joint use of military facilities for a new San Diego airport. It really amazes me that the military has said that this isn't possible due to security and logistics, however, the airport authority is still spending lots of money exploring it. This is a complete waste of time and money as it is extremely unlikely that the military will change its mind or that a base will close any time in the near future (the local bases survived the last round of base closures). Why can't the airport authority understand that no means no?
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I'm not an IT person
My dad called me today telling me that his IP phone wasn't working (it's hooked to my server). Well, he hadn't restarted the phone in awhile and I had upgraded the firmware on it so that the next time it rebooted it would pull it down. What I hadn't realized is that the phone's firmware switched from using active FTP to using passive FTP. My server was setup to allow active FTP (not much to setup), but didn't handle passive FTP. So after the phone got the firmware (using active FTP), it choked getting its config file via passive FTP. After a bunch of work, I figured this out and fixed my firewall to allow this. That was only part of the problem; the second problem is that I was using a non-standard SIP port (6060) for some reason that I can't really remember. Either the phone or my dad's router didn't like that, so I had to reconfigure the server (Asterisk) to use port 5060 and reconfigure the phone configuration to use port 5060. I think that this got the phone working again, but it took something like 2 hours and got me very annoyed at my dad when it clearly wasn't his fault.
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They hooked me!
As I've mentioned, I've been using MotionBased with my new GPS unit uploading each activity (dog walk, running, and in-line skating) to the website. The free version of the website only lets you see the last 10 or so activities and has a few other limitations. These include no saved reports and no totals. Well, it only took 5 days of me using the site and uploading data to convince me that I needed to subscribe so that I could separate my activities and total my activities. So far, it seems worth it and I think that I'm really going to enjoy using the website even more as I continue my training. Excellent work, MotionBased on giving me a free taste and then reeling me in!