Mission Accomplished!
In the second longest single workday of my life (37 hours), Mission Accomplished!
Hopefully, you'll get the reference here and realize the true nature of my monumental achievement against the global war on error.
"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions."
A Guilty Pleasure Revealed
Ok, I admit it. I love and have loved for a long time, progressive vocal trance music. I'm hardcore and I take it seriously. I have a seperate NAS (Network Attached Storage) dedicated to this kind of music. I don't advertise it and I hide it on my LAN like I would hide porn. Amy doesn't even know how much I like it. But no more. I don't dance to it but it's really the only music that can make me completely lose myself and focus on something if I need to. But I have to be careful, it's like a very powerful drug and has to be taken in moderation.
I had to write a very tight piece of code for work tonight and I remembered that trance keeps my ADHD at bay. So I loaded up a new directory of new tunes I'd recently downloaded and found an absolute gem that I'd forgotten about. My code got done, tested, and checked into SVN but I can't get this track out of my head.
Check it out:
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Burned with Desire by Armin Van Buuren
And don't make fun of me
I was so exhausted tonight and had laid down but it was futile- this song gave me new life and I wanted to share.
Cycling Training Log Spreadsheet
Since 1995, I've been tracking every mile I rode on the bike in an Excel spreadsheet. This has proven to be an excellent training tool and helped me notice trends and (sometimes) avoid over training. Five years ago I set out to find an automated way to compute my average speed and embarrassingly, I couldn't figure out how to do this in Excel so I wrote my first JavaScript application and published it over at : http://www.raincitystory.com/mph.htm. Since that time, I've averaged almost 10,000 hits per month on that page (the other pages on my entire site get less than 1,000 hits per month COMBINED) and I often get e-mails from people asking for more help to automate the aggregation of their training data.
Since I started 12 years ago, the log has gone through some serious evolution and I now think it's ready from prime time. Here are some major features:
1) All days including leap years for 2008 through 2012 are accounted for
2) Average speed automatically calculated and summed on a daily, monthly and annual basis
3) Space to record and average body weight, average heart rate, maximum heart rate, calories burned, temperature, elevation gain, cadence and time of day
4) Automatic monthly summary of number of rides, time spent on the bike, distance, and average speed
5) GRAPHS!
6) Much, much more
License: GPL v2 (improvements appreciated!)
Available Formats:
Microsoft Excel 2000/2003/2007
Open Office Calc
Google Docs (recommended so you don't have to worry about backing up! * Be sure to copy to your own Google account)
I've put a sample entry in the first row so please be sure to delete that when using. Any columns and rows can be deleted so enjoy!
