A very nice article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about a startup company I’m proud to be affiliated with.

February 5, 2010  

A simple rule that made me lose 5 pounds in a month

I vowed to start taking better care of my health last November.  I’m not obese, fat, portly, flabby, or gross by any stretch of the imagination, but I wasn’t living a lifestyle that made me feel healthy.

I started a real exercise regimen in December, but prior to that I made a simple dietary rule for myself.  This rule on its own was responsible for my losing 5lbs in a month.  It’s not super impressive, but it was a health change that I made without altering my lifestyle or my busy schedule.

The rule: When you are thirsty drink water, and only drink something else when you aren’t thirsty.

It’s that simple.  When you crave a soda, have one.  But, don’t have one just because you are thirsty.

The Codemash Conference is coming up again this year in just a few weeks.  It is always my favorite conference of the year, bringing together a diverse crowd of developers to learn practices from each others industries.

I have compiled a list of talks that I know you’ll enjoy.  Some of these I’ve heard previously, and others are presented by people that are always interesting/entertaining.

December 22, 2009  

Thank you for making 2009 an awesome and prosperous year for us.

Thank you for making 2009 an awesome and prosperous year for us.

 

I just wanted a vector rectangle with an 8.5x11 ratio. This UX workflow is horrible, when they made it so easy to do as a raster layer.

Did I miss something here, or is this really the best way to do it?

December 3, 2009  

Feed Reader Overload

I’ve observed an interesting pattern in the way I keep up with RSS feeds.

When I have few items in my feed reader, say less than 10, I jump in and read them all.  Interesting or not.  This means I waste my time reading articles which aren’t interesting to me, because there’s just not a whole lot to read.

The logical next step is to subscribe to more feeds, and ones which are more targeted to my interests.  What happens is that I fall behind and have to play catchup, which means I waste time reading posts which are out of date.  This becomes frustrating, “screw it” and I stop reading feeds altogether.

Lately, I’ve been subscribing to even more blogs which completely overloads my Google Reader inbox.  Mentally I realize that I will never be able to consume the information as fast as it comes in, so I just focus on current relevant posts and let the rest fall by the wayside.

I feel more in touch the past few weeks.  More up to date, and interested in my topic again.

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