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Couch to 5K 2.0: Week 1, Day 3

Couch to 5K is going pretty well, all things considered. Given that I have a weak ankle, I’m 51 and haven’t been able to do much exercise for the past year due to the ankle, not bad.
Still, I think I’ll stay in Week 1 for the rest of this week and repeat days 2 and [...]

Check In for a Good Cause

Recently I’ve been playing around with a few location-based social networking services, such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Whrrl. The goal was to do a post with a comparison of each one, which I’ll still do, but for now I want to talk about something my youngest daughter turned me onto, which enables me to check [...]

Couch to 5K 2.0: Week 1

In this post I shared my New Year’s resolutions, one of which is:
Complete Memphis St. Jude Half Marathon in December 2010, beginning with In His Steps 5K Run March 27.
Gear

The 2.0 Part — I’m calling this Couch to 5K 2.0 because I’m doing it with the assistance of a great iPhone app, Aleksander Stankovic’s C25K. [...]

Foursquare: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again

This 2009 conversation:
Me: Are you on foursquare?
IRL* friend: Huh?
Reminds me of this 2007 conversation:
Me: Do you tweet?
IRL friend: Huh?
Is foursquare the next Twitter? Prominent technology blogger Robert Scoble says, via CNN, “Go back three years ago. Twitter was being used by the same crowd that is playing with Foursquare today.” According to social media blog [...]

iPhone Applications I Really Wouldn't Want to Do Without

Though I have loved my iPhone from Day One, when Apple opened it up to third-party applications, it became even more indispensable.
Here are a few of the applications I use every day and love:
Remember the Milk • free • This is actually a Web-based application, but it a great, simple to-do list. Syncs between Web and [...]