8:00am: ran for 100 minutes or 12.8km
Month: June 2005
Thursday, June 23
6:00am: ran for 6 km, or 44 minutes
Tuesday, June 21
Ran 7 laps of a 400 metre track in 15 minutes
The People Own Ideas!
By Lawrence Lessig, June 2005, Technology Review
We entered the youth camp that morning by passing down a long, white gravel road and under a wooden gate. Spread to one side, and for as far as you could see, were rows and rows of tents. In front were scores of showers, with hundreds of kids in swimsuits milling about, waiting to rinse. It felt like a refugee camp.
In a sense, it was. More than a hundred thousand had descended upon Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend the World Social Forum, a conference intended to offer a progressive alternative to the much smaller, and much more famous, World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland (see “Letter from Davos,” April 2005).
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Saturday, June 18
8:00am: Ran for 66 minutes, 10+km
Friday, June 17
Rode my bike for 15 minutes; busy day; drove to Montreal and back for Charles Brown’s funeral. Brought a trunkload of Charles’ personal possessions to his widow and family from his Toronto apartment.
Grandparents learn to surf and they like it
By ANN GIBBON, Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Updated at 9:34 PM EDT
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
Grandma’s on the Net again, the kitchen’s not her home. She used to make us cherry pies, and call us on the phone. We miss her homemade biscuits, and I’ll make this little bet, If you want to contact Grandma, you’ll have to surf the Net. From an Internet chain letter
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A Sunday Afternoon House Call
By Brian Krebs, Washington Post, June 12, 2005.
I just spent nearly seven hours doing emergency surgery on a Windows PC that belongs to a dear, longtime friend. The experience was so harrowing that I decided to blog it.
So it’s 2 p.m. Sunday and after a cursory examination of my buddy’s two-year old Windows machine, it is clear that the thing is missing patches going back to mid- to late 2003, just months before Microsoft released Service Pack 2, a massive set of security fixes and operating system tweaks for Windows XP. Needless to say, the computer did not have Service Pack 2 installed.
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Thursday, June 16
(My eldest son’s birthday)
Ran for 44 minutes (6km?) from 6:25-7:09am
20 pushups
Wednesday, June 15
Rode my bike to Adelaide Street and back: 40 minutes
Tuesday, June 14
7:30pm:
Ran 1.75 miles (7 lengths of the 1/4 mile track) at a 9 minute/mile pace on the North Toronto school track.
Monday, June 13
Rest day
Sunday, June 12
Swam for 20 minutes
Saturday, June 11
Rest day
Friday, June 10
20 pushups only, some bike riding
Thursday, June 9
6:20-7:00am
Ran 5+km, did 20 pushups
Very hot and humid
Wednesday, June 8
Ran 1 km, did 20 pushups
Tuesday, June 7
7:06pm -7:49pm
Ran 5+ km, very hot, ran 10 minutes, walked one minute, etc
20 pushups
Monday, June 6
Rest Day
Sunday, June 5
Rest day, some light bike riding and gardening.