After taking about 2 weeks off of my P90X routine I decided to resume it today. According to the calendar schedule I have, I’m now in week 4 (recovery time) and today’s routine was ...
Still working on getting “caught up”. Today’s official workout was supposed to be Yoga X, but I did Arms & Shoulders + Ab Ripper X instead (yesterday’s workout). Might g...
Did Plyometrics (“jump training”) all the way through today, taking lots of breaks. It is very intense. May still do Shoulders and Arms later tonight to get fully caught up.
Ended up doing Chest & Back Monday night (instead of Sunday). I may try to do the Plyometrics workout (was supposed to be today’s video) tomorrow morning-ish to catch back up. Tomorrow is...
Went sailing today with Craig, Anna Lisa, Julian, Andrea, Julian’s sister, and Amanda. Was an absolutely gorgeous day out on the Bay. We took a Catalina 32 out and enjoyed sunshine, consisten...
Delicious doughnuts that I ate last month in Portland. mmmm Yesterday (day 5) ended up being a bye day for me for P90X. I had quite a lot of work that I had to finish (a client’s e-commerce sho...
Did about 40 minutes (out of 1.5hrs) of the yoga video last night, then it was midnight, and I had had enough. The P90X Yoga video definitely focuses on yoga as an athletic exercise (vs. a focus on y...
Day 2: Plyometrics Ate large quantity of sushi omakase style at Kirala in Berkeley. Did not do Plyometrics tonight. Slept instead. Day 3 Did first 1/2 half of Plyometrics video then had lunch with si...
I decided that it was time to give the P90X videos a shot, after my brother Andy has done it like 4 times now, with some excellent results. Did the first video this evening (Chest & Back), ...
This looks like the right way to do it. Top tips from this video by UK chef Heston Blumenthal: Dry-age your steak by removing it from the package 2 days in advance and leave it exposed in the fridge....
These are the best brownies in the world. Don’t believe me? Make them and see for yourself. This is my sister Naomi’s favorite brownie recipe, adapted from one my mom used to make. Undef...
When I was in 4th or 5th grade, I joined the Boy Scouts. Except it wasn’t Boy Scouts for me, no, it was Webelos Scouts, since that was the appropriate group for my age at the time. I hadn’...
In case you haven’t seen this video yet, you should watch it. Once I adopted the Inbox Zero system (which took about 30 minutes to do the first time) it literally changed my life for the better...
More info about this Zen flowchart here.
We have 82 installations of WordPress on our servers and are excited for the new release of WordPress 3.1. There are a bunch of neat new features, but probably the thing that most of our clients will...
One of my goals for 2011 is to end it significantly more in shape than I started. I realize that this is a (very) common goal for many people, and one that many people start on and then let tail off ...
WordPress 3.0.2 has just been released. Announcement here: http://wordpress.org/news/2010 /11/wordpress-3-0-2/ This is a security release, so you should definitely upgrade your installations of WordPr...
If you’re like me you’ve been using the excellent Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress for a while now. Recently a client noticed that there was a sporadic error being shown that was simila...
In case you missed it, Old Spice has been making some very funny commercials using actor Isaiah Mustafa (@isaiahmustafa) including creating real-time responses to people on the Internet. My top 10 fa...
When you need to know where the php.ini configuration file is on your server, here is a handy way to find it: php -i | grep php.ini Give it a try.
OK Go are really, really good at this.
Pretty amazing life and career for my uncle Jim Sheldon who is retiring this year after teaching so many fifth graders. Here’s the article about it from the Napa Valley Register: Four decades i...
If you find a directory such as /tmp/ filling up with old and uneeded files, here’s a quick tip for finding and removing what you don’t need anymore. Note that the delete function WILL re...
WordCamp San Francisco 2010 (#wcsf) was great. Lots of neat people sharing good ideas about WordPress, including a great “State of the Word” address by Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of Word...
Testing a small update sending this directly from my iPhone using the WordPress app.
These guys are killing it. Watch video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =uS1exujG3cY (Found on RSS2.com – Popular videos)
This made me laugh. Video not loading? Click here to view it on YouTube.
Great video of a talk given by Douglas Adams — “Parrots, the Universe and Everything” Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =_ZG8HBuDjgc&feature=play er_embedded# Very ver...
Neat tilt-shift video of New York City that makes everything look small. (via Kottke via quips) The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.
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