OK, I gave TBird's Lightning extension the proverbial college try for firing task reminders. The problems I have with it are: - TBird uses ~80MB of memory idling, while TMR uses zero until Win Task Scheduler fires it; - sometimes it just stops firing reminders at all until I restart TBird; - some tasks show twice ("snoozed" occurrences of recurring tasks?); and - If you edit a task, it remains "open" but is dismissed from the reminder window without a snooze. So, Lightning's task minder isn't really... (...more)

As noted last week, I'm looking for a replacement for Phatsoft TMR. I might just roll with the task manager in Mozilla Thunderbird's Lightning extension. TMR is still available for download via Tucows and Sourceforge, although on SF the project URL tmr.{sf|sourceforge}.net redirects to phatsoft.net, and phatsoft.net has since lapsed and been squatted by those domain-squatting fucktards who brand their squatted domains with that bile-inducing "what you need, when you need it" tagline I came to hate so much ... (...more)

Remember that scene in Karate Kid ... ok, I just made myself feel old... Anyway, where Daniel-san is balancing on the fencepost or pier tie or whatever that is, practicing his crane no-can-defense kick? That inspired me to try a variation on calf raises. Standing away from a wall so you're forced to balance entirely by muscle action, bend slightly at the knee and lean forward just enough to center your weight in the ball of the "active" foot. Holding that balance there, raise the other foot, and bend that ... (...more)

Session #21: 3.3mi / ~46m30s. My first burst was 2 full laps, that is, a half-mile, at 5.4mph. My second and third were at least a full lap, 3rd might have been 1.5 laps. My final burst was 7.0mph. That's a pretty hard running pace, forces me to kick up my heels a bit, but not a full-out sprint. It was sustainable for a half-lap. Less than 2 months ago, a 4.7mph jog was my best half-lap pace. I had been toying for a few weeks with a 4.1mph power-walk phase following my speed phases. After last session,... (...more)

The title kind of says it all - following a virus signature library update, Microsoft Security Essentials popped up a warning that my lappy was infected with "Win32.Zbot", and when I told it yes, go ahead and clean the system, it closed Chrome, dissociated it as the system URL handler and disabled the executable. No, Microsoft, that's not suspicious at all. A mistake anyone could have made, really. Here's the kicker though - after the requested reboot, I had no problem opening Chrome again. No idea how ... (...more)