One Week Until The Election

Just over a week until election time. The last couple of months has created plenty of buzz around the water cooler, but I'm fairly ready for the election to be behind us. Our nation's next leader will inherit more than his fair share of problems. My personal feeling is that Obama's leadership skills, temperament and intelligence makes him best suited to be our next leader. What do you think?

Farbtube Time Kill

While reading the Ajaxian this week, I ran across something called farbtube. It's more or less an infinite graffiti app. It uses google's GWT toolkit.

This Web 2.0 / GWT example allows to draw on an infinite canvas and to see others changes immediately. It works like Google Maps: Use the “Move” cursor to walk around the canvas

It's a cute little time kill.

My biggest complaints are

• the lack of an undo.
• zoom in/out is a bit slow
• there's no indication of what zoom level you're at.

enjoy.

Hiking The Bay Area

The Bay Area has a ton of wonderful hikes. I took one over July 4th weekend up in the city. We started at Baker's Beach area and hiked through all the coastal batteries to the golden gate bridge. We were still feeling good, so we decided to walk the golden gate and back. We then kept going down to Fort Point which I never even knew existed. We then circled back the way we came. The trip over was completely foggy. In fact we got right to the golden gate bridge before we actually saw it. The fog burned off about 1:30pm (about the time we started to head back). So the hike back had a totally different vibe to it. Bright and sunny, and you could see the golden gate for miles. Got some great pictures as well...

This first picture at the top shows bakers beach and the seacliff area in the fog when we started our hike. The picture below is a picture of the same area taken when we got back. Not sure how
many miles total the hike ended up being. We took our time because we had 2 young hikers with us that had to stop and run through all the old military posts that we passed along the way. Overall it's a fairly easy hike and one that kids really enjoy.

Fort Point












You can see all the public pictures from the hike on my flickr set Baker's Beach Hike

Long Overdue -- Started Exercising

I started walking on the treadmill this week. Tonight was my 4th night in a row. Here's my progress thus far.

1. 1st time, 2 miles
2. 2nd time, 2 1/4 miles
3. 3rd time, 2 3/4 miles
4. 4th time, 3 1/4 miles.

I put the treadmill on 3.5 mph, so tonight i walked a little over 50 minutes.
Can't tell that I've lost any weight, but I do feel better.