For a while now I’ve been trying to find a good method to tie my running shorts. I want to tie them so they are snug allowing me to mule around my Simple Hydration water bottle yet easy enough to untie. I found the useful posting on the LiveStrong website on how to tie basketball shorts, I figured the concept is similar enough to crossover. Also, typically I’m not a fan of sites like eHow but this time they actually have something useful, “How to Loop a String Through Gym Shorts”.

Late last year, a few weeks before my third Wine & Dine Half Marathon I suffered an injury to my knee. While I rested and worked out at the gym I had hopes I could not just salvage upcoming Wine & Dine but become healthy enough to run the Goofy in January. Well I was able to make it for the Wine & Dine, yet I managed to re-aggravated the injury around the 3-mile marker.

A month ago I thought I found my RSS reader solution in CommaFeed. However, after using it for a few days I found it just wasn’t what I needed. In fact I found it to be painfully slow. So I looked for alternative solutions and found Stringer. It is by far one of the best solutions I found. Yet it too had a problem, sometimes I’m not in the mood to read tech news, and wish to indulge in something else… and Stringer lacks folders.

I think a good deal of my current running related knee pain is related to weak strenght in my hip flexors along with hip flexibility and mobility.

For some reason I found this abnormally interesting.

My vacation[summer, 2013] ended and I continue to evaluate and tinker with plans to create a standardized deployment across my laptops; I am finding what I once thought was a sure thing isn’t. I currently run OpenBox on my Arch install, my desire to keep minimal system along how much I enjoy many aspects of Crunch Bang I thought OpenBox would be the clear winner. Yet Cinnamon is starting to emerge as a strong contender, I am starting to grow fond of the environment.

This may sound like a horror story at first but I assure you it isn’t. I wanted to find a lightweight shoe comfortable to wear daily, with a low toe to heal drop. However this shoe wasn’t intended to be used for daily use but as a gym workout shoe. Over the winter I’ve been eyeing up Sketchers GOrun 1 line from a distance. Just a few weeks ago I stopped by my local Skechers Outlet, and picked up a new pair of shoes.

For the last month and a half now I’ve been straying away from twitter. I don’t have any good reason, when I really started to use twitter it replaced my use of RSS feeds. Now, as my use of twitter is dwindling my RSS use is picking back up again. Early in the year Google axed Reader, which is the client of choice by many. I used it back in the day… and I’ve now found a new replacement… I have a few concerns like the ability of it web client to scale (the ability to quickly refresh feeds).

According the the Arch MacBook wiki page, the MacBook’s iSight camera should just work out of the box since kernal 2.6.26. Well that maybe the case on new hardware1, older hardware2 doesn’t have the iSight camera just work. One must first do some work, like finding the drivers AppleUSBVideoSupport. The driver can be found on any Mac OS X system, however it must come Mac OS X pre-10.6, so just just google it.