Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Livestrong.com
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Fitness hell - Week 4 progress
My suspicion from last week was correct. I have to start keeping a close watch on what I eat.
I weighed myself this morning and was disappointed to see that I gained a few pounds back. It's not like I went crazy with eating, but clearly whatever I ate was really bad for me. Ugh. Too good to be true. :) And to top it all off, I burned more calories this past week than the 3 weeks prior: just over 1600. I hate to think of how it would be if I hadn't. On the plus side, it's looking really good for beating my 2000 cal in 14 day goal that I set for myself; 5 days and 274 cal to go! I'm really enjoying the cardio boxing routines. That's part of the reason for the increase in calorie burns. It makes for a great warm up. The Your Shape FE web site is still not fully functional, and it's been at least 2 weeks since I've been able to access their support forums. For some reason I get an error when I try to log into them. There are others with the same problem. At first, the reps in their Facebook page seemed concerned and were passing along info to their support people, but now our pleas appear to go ignored... and the problem still exists.The leaderboard stats are a little f'd up too. For example, it has me listed twice. The "female" one is not the correct one, obviously. :)
That was yesterday, but it's still listing me twice today.
There have also been some questions about when they're going to post "events" on their web site that we can participate in. No replies to those questions either.
It's annoying when a product is released with virtually no support to back it up.Here's my current rank:
Monday, December 6, 2010
Kinect & Your Shape FE - Week 3 progress
Thursday, December 2, 2010
A message to Sens fans
... in particular, the Heatley-hating fans:
It's cool that you're all excited about the game tonight and being able to boo and trash the much-hated Dany Heatley. It's great that you seem willing to display a little energy and emotion for once because we're certainly not known for being anything but comatose.
But what do you say to sharing some of that energy, emotion, and excitement with the home team for once? How about more than a couple of Go Sens Go! chants that don't die the second the other team touches the puck?
Seriously, how embarassing will it be to hear more Heatley boos and jeers at the game than cheers and rallies for the Ottawa Senators?
Very. And to be honest, not too surprising.Surprise me.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Watt's up?
Not my hydro bill!
Remember my "Killing Watts" post from October 1st? The one where I ranted about our $414.49 hydro bill and our planned efforts to reduce it for the next billing?
That next billing was today and our bill for the last two months is $213.13.
It's kinda hard to believe that changing all of our bulbs to CF bulbs made that much of a difference, so I'd like to think that it was mainly through the efforts of my family being more vigilant about the lights and electronics that they may leave on. Whatever the reasons, they all added up and made a difference.
As I mentioned then, I will be sharing some of the savings with my kids as well. I decided that they would share in any savings below $250. The point was to make them realize that whenever they leave a light on or the TV on, they'd be cutting into their profits. I'll round it off to an even $20 each. :)
With winter approaching, it'll be interesting to see if we can do it again for the next two months.
Friday, November 26, 2010
My Shape
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Another me
I've been getting emails from a dating web site for the last few weeks. The emails said that people had viewed "my" profile on their web site. It was being flagged as spam by Hotmail. That's nothing new. I deleted them, as I do to all spam.
These seemed a little different.As I've mentioned before, there are a number of people out on the internet who, for unknown reasons, think that my email address is their email address. It happens for Hotmail and Gmail. I get job offers from HR people, business emails, and forwarded humourous emails that people send to their friends.These aren't spam or phishing scams, these are legit emails. Sometimes I reply to them -- in particular the job offers or business emails -- letting them know they have the wrong person. Sometimes they reply back with apologies.I began to wonder if these dating web site emails might be legit. Curiosity got the best of me today, and I visited the web site. Throwing caution to the wind, I clicked Forgot Password, entered "my" email address, and clicked Submit.Minutes later, a message arrived in my Inbox with "my" login and password.I logged in and there it was. Someone's profile with personal information that they added to the web site.Now what?I could have been malicious and changed their info or what they specified as the type of person they're looking for, but as much as it annoys me that people don't take care in entering their email address for things, I couldn't do that. And what would be the point? I'd be the one getting the emails anyway. ;)Since they had a free account, I a delete account option and killed it. Goodbye me. I hope.Was I wrong to close their account?