Well enough people have mentioned that I haven’t updated in a while that I suppose it’s time for an update.
Work stuff.. Business has been picking up and I’ve been spending a lot of time with my head in an IDE working. I’ve been learning a ton of good stuff and maybe I’ll post some things I’ve learned at some point. I’ve also been plugging away on a new product and I have a demo of it up and available to a limited group of beta testers, there’s a bunch to do but I’m pretty happy with the results thus far.
Exercise stuff.. I’ve been doing some boxing and that has been a lot of fun, the workout for boxing is great and it’s nice to get into the gym 2-3 times a week and just go hard for couple of hours. I’m finally starting to get acclimated to the workout and have been able to start focusing on technique a little bit more and that’s been a lot of fun. There’s a lot to learn and it gets me out of my head each time I go. I also setup a website for the gym you can find it at www.oldschoolboxinggym.com
Bicycling… I’ve done some bicycling off and on since I got home from Washington in July but nothing terribly focused. Colin and I were talking the other day and I think I’m going to shoot for doing the Davis Double Century in May next year, although Colin is trying to pressure me into doing the Solvang Double at the end of March. It’ll take some time to get my base built up for a double so I’m not sure if I can swing end of march but it’s a goal.
Getting Things Done … I read Getting Things Done about 6 weeks ago and I’ve taken a couple of things from that book and implemented them. Setting up a decent filing system, setting up a tickler file and setting up some other processes to make my paperwork/mail processing/etc is now a lot easier to keep track of than it was before. I also picked up OmniFocus for both my computer and my iphone and those are working out pretty good. I don’t know if it would work for everyone, but I think it’s worth giving it a shot. I have definitely noticed a huge boost in productivity as a result and I have also noticed that it’s a lot easier for me to get into a flow state as a result of having things all in front of me in a reasonable manageable way.
I’m still feeling under the weather but I was able to get a weight workout in today. Hopefully I can get this going through Sunday and actually take my schedule break. We’ll see tomorrow’s cardio workout is gonna be a bear if I don’t start feeling better. On the upside I found a great package of dried fruit at Costco tonight. Blueberries, cranberries, cherries, and something else. I’ve been looking for something to throw on my breakfast cereal in the morning. Hopefully it tastes as good as it sounds right now, I need to quit shopping when I’m hungry.
Weight training day:
- curls – (15×3)
- military press – (15×3)
- dumbbell rows – (15×3)
- bench press – (15×3)
- pullups – none tonight…hey!, it’s consistent with my previous results so far this month
Today I got up late and go busy with work and some other things so I wasn’t able to get out for a run. So I opted to just do my cardio on the bicycle in the evening. I worked up a good sweat but it wasn’t as intense as last week’s workouts on the bike. Not sure what’s going on, it’s possible that I’m a little burned out. I’m looking forward to taking sunday off and heading out to sf for SHDH.
Cardio Day:
Bicycle Ride – (30m2s/360kcal)
I have been using vmware to host specialized development and testing environments for various clients. With a reasonably powerful machine there isn’t a perceptible difference between a vm and a native install for your workstation plus it offers an impressive amount of flexibility for things. Backups are a snap, moving development environments around can be exciting as well. Thus far it has been a huge win.
I just installed a windows xp vm on my laptop and while my Debian install automagically setup the correct resolution, I wasn’t able to set the xp vm to a widescreen resolution within the vm. So I dug around and found that simply opening the file <yourvmname>.vmx and adding the following lines :
svga.maxWidth = “1680″
svga.maxHeight = “1050″
Save the file. Then reboot the vm. Go into the display settings in the vm and set it to the desired resolution, that’s all there is to it.
The one thing that I don’t know for sure is whether you need to have the VMTools installed for this to work. However I think the VMTools make the vm a little more useful on the desktop so it’s probably worth installing them.