Last Sunday there was a mildly awkward incident where I posted a pair of Bible quotes to kick off my "Jesus Loves Liberals" series on my FB wall, and some right-wing sheep from my Castle Age network popped in to respond with ...what I guess he thought was a counter-sermon about doing pretty much anything else with your money besides helping the poor. I guess he thought I was making a case for welfare, which ironically wasn't even my intent, but that's where the ensuing commentary went. Actually, the passag... (...more)

session 11: (per Twitter) 3.3mi in 49m20s (avg. 4.01mph), peaking at 6.2mph for a half-lap.

Seems every time I get on the 'mill I push my limits just a little further, but one thing I'm kind of frustrated with is, not being able to jog much more than 1/4 mile at a stretch.

For lots of list-cleaning purposes, a spreadsheet is preferable to a database. Up to 2000, MS Excel was limited to around 65,500 rows, and even now OpenOffice Calc is limited to about 1 million rows; so if you need to operate on lists that exceed your spreadsheet limits, then you need to work in a true database manager application, such as MS Access. In Excel, you might sort your list by the column you were deduping, and use a formula to increment a count or simply show a flag word if the current record... (...more)

For some reason the checkbox-type input element to flag entries under editing as "hidden" is, itself, invisible in the edit page. I know it's there, I can see the selection outline if I tab to it, but I can't tell if it's toggled. I could deal with it easier if I at least had an indicator in the entry template to tell me if the entry was flagged hidden. A little twiddling and here's what I came up with: :X At first I tried an inline style spec including a "title:'hidden'" attribute. I don't know ... (...more)

After 10 sessions of treadmill cardio, I can safely say my limits stem from: 1. Breath. I found a groove a couple sessions ago, ~4.8mph jogging, where I felt like I could sustain my breathing indefinitely if my muscles could keep up. CV training will naturally pull up pulmonary efficiency, but the process would be aided by including respiratory exercises in a muscle-targeting routine. Conventional Western medicine generally prescribes aerobic (i.e., cardio) exercise for pulmonary rehabilitation. Yoga spec... (...more)