Author: Chris
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Animated CSS + Javascript
The other day there was an article in a newsletter I skim from sitepoint, and it talked about animated css. It was really quite interesting and the link can be found here. I didn’t really see a use for his example (here) but it seemed like an interesting idea. As I thought of it I…
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Exercise Update – Sat. Evening
Volleyball: Yesterday at work we played volleyball for an hour and a half. This was way more exercise than I thought it would be, and I was feeling it this morning – I was afraid I wasn’t gonna be able to exercise or make it through what I started. Running: Well I just finished another…
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Exercise Update
Running: Well I went running on Saturday morning. I put Jayden in the stroller and took him for a short run (google maps says 0.8 miles). Considering that was the most I have ran in a while, I figured thats pretty good. Then Tuesday I ran down a less developed road (which I enjoyed because…
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Fitness Update – Marathons and Push-ups!
Ok, here goes nothing… I’ve been thinking about these things for a couple of days now, but I guess I’ll commit to them… First up, marathons! At the beginning of the year I set some goals for myself. One was to exercise everyday, and work to run in a marathon. Its a really really long…
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Finding yourself
This past weekend my wife’s family had a reunion. We drove out to the mountains and stayed in some cabins out in pretty much the middle of nowhere. It wasn’t really rouging it, but it was a good deal of fun! One of the things I had the opportunity to do was late Friday…
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Pandora music delays?!
So has anyone else been having trouble with Pandora.com lately? I love the ability to pick the music that I listen to and also not having to listen to commercials, but this week it sometimes seems like it takes a couple of minutes after a song ends before it starts another (sometimes it just sits…
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“Whale Done!” – A great read!
Whale Done! A book about the power of positive relationships by Ken Blanchard (and others) is a great book. I read it a few years ago, and remembered it being great, so for Christmas it was on my list of books I’d like to own and read again. I did get it, and this week…
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Why Todo Lists Work (A simple example)
I work as a programmer in an IT company. My job consists of lots of little things that I need to do each day. Usually they add up to a large project that I am working to complete. Last week our company sponsored a conference here in town and we had a whole bunch of…
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Perspective is king
So I graduated in April, and started full time work. It has been tough working for 8 hours a day. My work is very flexible in what times I need to work, and I started with the best intentions of getting in early and leaving early. Well it has been really really difficult to keep…
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RescueTime – What do you do with your computer time?
Well, a few weeks back I found a program called RescueTime. Cleaning out my RSS feeds today I found that JD at Get Rich Slowly had a similar post earlier this month discussing this program. I decided that I wanted to chime in myself. What this program does, is run on your computer in the…