Didn’t work the second time, testing again…

Didn’t work the first time, testing again…

• Tags: WLW, Tag Test

Today’s run was an adventure or least that was the plan. I had wanted to get some hill work in and I had my eye on a downtown hill. The hill is right at the corner of James White Parkway and the corner of Walnut Avenue. The hill travels northward up Walnut right near the City-County building and extends for 2 city blocks (or so).

I think it would be great if they had a 5k where this hill was part of the course. The name I have in mind would be the [Wal]NUT BUSTER 5k. Anyway, I decided to route around Volunteer Landing, as in my normal route and the cross JW Parkway up the full length of the Walnut Hill. I attacked the hill with great vigor, keeping my breathing normal (as I could) while keeping my legs moving. I pushed up to the hill and lengthen my stride and passed over the small rounded crest. I did stop to take a breather at the top of the hill, one of the trees was nice enough to offer some shade while I could feel my heart trying not to burst at the seams. I timed leaving my solitude of shade with the crosswalk to continue on the route.

I hooked up with part of my Market Square Fab 4 course, right on the same block as my Women In Black ladies hangout each Tuesday. This way, I wouldn’t know what my “off course” mileage would be but I would have 2 points at which I could figure my split times, once back in the office. Below is the course that I took. It starts at the pinpoint at the bottom of the map (which is the overall 1.5 mile) and ends at the pinpoint on Clinch Avenue. I know from that point at Clinch Avenue it is 1.0 miles back to the Aquatic Center. I just didn’t know what I had done between those points.

Turns out that that red line is 1.55 miles. Making the whole trip 3.55 miles with two Mongo hills. I wanted to “grade” the hills, but I couldn’t find a way to get the elevation for the route. Actually, I did but the elevation seemed “off” so I deemed it unreliable. Anyway, here are the split times from today:

Tomorrow (Thursday) will be a rest day as our office is having a Labor Day picnic. And when I mean picnic I mean that we are all walking to a local Bar & Grill and ordering off the menu. Oh well, it’s free food, so who am I to complain…

On a side note: my Mobile Phone has died again. Not a week after I got a new phone, the battery will NOT hold a charge. Bastards! So, I have to go to the Sprint store today and have them take another whack at it.

Addendum: I am testing out this Windows Live Writers(WLW) ability to post images. If this works, this would be awesome because it would save me the time to load up Dreamweaver to FTP my photos. I use Dreamweaver and not a lighter program because it’s automated for me. I highlight the picture file and click the “up” arrow… file uploaded… no menus to navigate to. Plus, I get the benefit if I want to do any changes to any of my files, it’s right there. So let’s go see if we have pictures.tags: walnut hill, easy

I received an email yesterday and just glanced over it not thinking about it. Upon further inspection, it’s a contest! A writing contest and the prize is a free bike! Rock on…

Have you ever thought about biking to work, but you didn't have a
bike? Do you want to save time and money by running errands on a bike?
All you have to do is write an essay explaining all of the ways you
would use a new bicycle as an alternative to your car. The winner will
get a new commuter bicycle that retails for up to $850, complete with
fenders, a rack, and carrying bag/panniers!

Your essay should describe your biking ideas in 350 to 500 words. You
must be at least 18 years old and live in Knox, Blount, Anderson,
Sevier, or Jefferson County to be eligible. Entries must be received by
September 22, 2006, and the winner will be announced on October 2.

If you want to win a new commuter bike, send your essay to: Knoxville
Regional Bicycle Program, 400 Main St, Suite 403, Knoxville, TN 37902,
or fax to: (865) 215-2087 or e-mail to kelley.segars@knoxtrans.org

Sponsored by the Smart Trips program, promoting alternatives to driving
alone, and Harper’s Bike Shop.

http://www.knoxsmarttrips.org/winabike.pdf

So, I have a few things to think about on how I am going to win this free bike. I have been wanting to try to bike to work. I figured, given the distance and terrain, it would take me around 1 - 1.5 hrs to bike to work from my house. The Nice thing is that the local buses all have bike racks, so I would get a ride back to about 3 miles from my house.tags: Contest, Knoxtrans

Okay dokay… looking to give this Live writer thing another whirl. I was able to have it post to my LiveJournal, no problem… however, I can’t change my picture icon nor insert tags.

John suggested that I try a Live Writer plugin for it and an so I went to download it. For the stupid plugin, I had to download some extra stuff (.NET Framework 2.0) which that took around 45min to install, ugh. Now I need to go and see if there are any updates for it… I guess I need to go ahead and start IE up… by the time I am finished with this post, it should be running. But the pain is worth it if I can insert tags… They really are pretty helpful in finding content or trying to find a post as a reference.

I am hoping that this thing will solve another problem I have and that is updating my family blog. For the Past 3 months, I have blogged 3 times… basically because the internet has made me lazy… Same reason why, if you don’t have RSS feed for your blog, I might not read it. Not because I don’t want to… but I delegate finding changes to blogs using Sage, a RSS feed aggregator.

Okay, so let’s see if this bad boy works…

tags: Live Writer

Who would of thought that Microsoft would create something online that didn’t need Internet Explorer. Well, they did… what the hell is wrong with them.

Had I realized that I didn’t have to use IE…

okay, MS almighty, how do I add tags?

I am using an online collaberator tool called writely to create my blog posts. Apparently I can post directly to my blog from here, but not sure if that is going to be the case. The problem with using this program apart from the LiveJournal webposting page or the DeepSender add-on for Firefox is that I don't have the ability to change my user picture.

Actually, I take that back. I think there is a way that I change my picture, I just need the right tag for it. So, Let's Test out some of the features….æ³

But what this can do is have a message in Writely, then copy over to Deep Sender to send… I guess that's okay until DeepSender gets a spell checker that I can use. Plus I can have blogs online anywhere since Writely is web-based.

lj-userpic: habitat
lj-tags: greyhounds, potato, wool

I am using an online collaberator tool called writely to create my blog posts. Apparently I can post directly to my blog from here, but not sure if that is going to be the case. The problem with using this program apart from the LiveJournal webposting page or the DeepSender add-on for Firefox is that I don’t have the ability to change my user picture.

What would you say if that teenage punk with the nose ring and blue and green hair was listening to an MP3 player rocking his head back and forth?

What would you say if that same punkass kid was reading a book by Jules Verne?

What would you say if that same punkass with the nose ring and blue and green hair was listening to an MP3 player of Jules Verne for their honor english class?

Well you can’t make this up, well you- can I just did, but you wouldn’t be all that far off…

Let me be the first to introduce you to Librivox, an online resevoir of literature who have lost their copyright status.

LibriVox recordings are Public Domain in the USA. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.

Now you won’t find Stephen King or John Grishman or JK Rowling, you’ll still have to fork over large bags of cash to purchase and listen to their works. After all the Solid Gold Hummers don’t grow on tree (see yesterday’s Wierd Al post for reference). But you can find stuff from Robert Louis Stevenson, Neitzsche, Machiavelli, Shelly, Plato, Whitman and many more.

there’s even one from the United States Rubber Company called The Romance of Rubber… not going there…

You can also find short stories and poetry and children’s literature.

So if you are not going to read a book, you can listen to some of the classics…

I’m down with Bill Gates, I call him Money for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support

Yeah, that’s from Weird Al Yankovic’s song It’s All About the Pentiums, which is probably my favorite, no let’s make it an absolute favorite, song of mine by the aforementioned artist. I love his parody of other artists, I mean who doesn’t. Okay Coolio and James Blunt probably do not but what do they know.

Weird Al is promoting his new album which is coming out mere DAYS before my & Hilary Duff’s birthday. I think she should get me a couple of copies, one for me and then I we’ll have a contest for my wonderful 7 readers of this blog.

Regardless, in his own shameless self promotion, YOU can download the first song off of his upcoming coming album Straight Outta Lynwood… which in Weird Al style is titled “Don’t Download This Song”. And if you don’t tell anyone, you might be able to download a song of one of the artist mentioned above that will not be on any album… I’ll give you a hint…. shhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Amesjay Untblay. [Look for the link, wink]

So Ms. Duff… I want my Wierd Al!