Vista launch is now in full swing. Even as a Microsoft Employee I'm still starved for details on the Vista Media Center Edition capabilities, especially as it concerns CableCard. I'm hoping that all of these questions will get answered tomorrow, but as a preview, here's where I'm at with this. I currently have cable service from Comcast. It's a little pricey, but I'm pretty happy with it. My setup is that I've got a 36" TV in the living room off the kitchen that's attached...

Vista launch is now in full swing. Even as a Microsoft Employee I'm still starved for details on the Vista Media Center Edition capabilities, especially as it concerns CableCard. I'm hoping that all of these questions will get answered tomorrow, but as a preview, here's where I'm at with this. I currently have cable service from Comcast. It's a little pricey, but I'm pretty happy with it. My setup is that I've got a 36" TV in the living room off the kitchen that's attached...

Things are starting to come into focus. The race is less than three months away. I kind of wish it was tomorrow. This week had a little less volume but a little more "quality" or intensity work in there. Up until now, most of my work on the run and bike have been steady state. This week some of my workouts had specific intenisty or wattage targets. Workload on the bike is measured in watts. Unlike running, pace (speed) is a bad measurement for effort...

Things are starting to come into focus. The race is less than three months away. I kind of wish it was tomorrow. This week had a little less volume but a little more "quality" or intensity work in there. Up until now, most of my work on the run and bike have been steady state. This week some of my workouts had specific intenisty or wattage targets. Workload on the bike is measured in watts. Unlike running, pace (speed) is a bad measurement for effort...

It's amazing how new challenges seem in retrospect versus before you've been through them. My coach fills out my schedule about two weeks at a time these days. He's pretty active in managing my workload, so he'll put together a block of work, see how I'm doing, then adjust from there. Just before I went to Mt. Bachelor for New Year's, my schedule for these two weeks came up. When I saw it for the first time, I just kind of stared in disbelief. 5,000y swims. 2 hour runs. Multiple 2+ hour...

It's amazing how new challenges seem in retrospect versus before you've been through them. My coach fills out my schedule about two weeks at a time these days. He's pretty active in managing my workload, so he'll put together a block of work, see how I'm doing, then adjust from there. Just before I went to Mt. Bachelor for New Year's, my schedule for these two weeks came up. When I saw it for the first time, I just kind of stared in disbelief. 5,000y swims. 2 hour runs. Multiple 2+ hour...

Random utility I wrote this week. Imagine you have a bunch of pictures fresh off your 6-megapixel camera that you want to post on your blog, or email to someone. You've got a bunch of them, and they're all 3 or 4 megabytes. So you need to resize them down to a more reasonable size before you do anything else with them. There's certainly plenty of programs that can do this (even MS Paint), but it's still kind of a hassle. So I wrote a...

Random utility I wrote this week. Imagine you have a bunch of pictures fresh off your 6-megapixel camera that you want to post on your blog, or email to someone. You've got a bunch of them, and they're all 3 or 4 megabytes. So you need to resize them down to a more reasonable size before you do anything else with them. There's certainly plenty of programs that can do this (even MS Paint), but it's still kind of a hassle. So I wrote a...

Well, I'm about half way there. IMAZ is three and a half months away. Now it's getting a little more serious. Up until now I've been in what's called "base" training. Base training is completely about increasing your aerobic abilities. You're trying to get your body to be able to move blood and oxygen around as effeciently as possible. For you biology majors out there, you're trying to do three principle things: ...

Well, I'm about half way there. IMAZ is three and a half months away. Now it's getting a little more serious. Up until now I've been in what's called "base" training. Base training is completely about increasing your aerobic abilities. You're trying to get your body to be able to move blood and oxygen around as effeciently as possible. For you biology majors out there, you're trying to do three principle things: ...

A few weeks ago I realized that I'd be seeing you soon, but was surprised it took until today. So you got a bit of a slow start, huh? That's OK. But as soon as I rolled into the parking garage at the gym at 6:30 this morning, there you were. I found a nice spot on the third level of the garage. I don't mind walking a bit, it's cool. I wish I could be super-supportive, really I do. I think it's great that...

A few weeks ago I realized that I'd be seeing you soon, but was surprised it took until today. So you got a bit of a slow start, huh? That's OK. But as soon as I rolled into the parking garage at the gym at 6:30 this morning, there you were. I found a nice spot on the third level of the garage. I don't mind walking a bit, it's cool. I wish I could be super-supportive, really I do. I think it's great that...

A few weeks ago I had a great week 10/11 summary typed up, then managed to lose it. I've been bitter about that, and busy, hence the pause. But things have been interesting. I've actually been doing a little lower volume for the few weeks around the holidays. I've been hard at it since September and during the week of the 11th I started really feeling it. I had a talk with my coach and he dialed me back a bit. So I took a...

A few weeks ago I had a great week 10/11 summary typed up, then managed to lose it. I've been bitter about that, and busy, hence the pause. But things have been interesting. I've actually been doing a little lower volume for the few weeks around the holidays. I've been hard at it since September and during the week of the 11th I started really feeling it. I had a talk with my coach and he dialed me back a bit. So I took a...