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Running and Enjoying SF

Today I ran the SF Marathon, well, at least the first half. It was a great run, starting from Embarcadero, along the Bay, up and across Golden Gate Bridge back to Golden Gate Park. I finished the 13.1M (21km) in 1:58hrs and I am very happy with this result.


Last week I had a short warm-up run at Santa Cruz' wharf-to-wharf, a scenic 6M course along the Monterey Bay to downtown Capitola.

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Netflix is Just SuperCool

I have abandoned TV alltogether and exclusively watch movies out of Netflix' list of 45,000 or so.
The system is simple: You select movies into a queue on Netflix' website. Within 1-3 days you'll receive the first set of (depending on your subscription) 2-4 DVDs. When you have watched one you'll return it with the same envelope - the postage is already paid for. After 2-4 days you'll receive the next from your list, and so on.
A dream! For just $11-$22/month. And (legal) video download is lurking round the corner...

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Juan's First Night in a Tent

Apart from this premiere it also my first, automated photo post right ouf Flickr. Good stuff!

posted by Christof Wittig @ 9:25 PM 0 comments

I'm doing good!?

OK, next attempt to make my Me2Me blog a living one.
First, a new mission statement: It will be my private blog so that people wherever they are can stay in touch and read up what I was doing, rather than a professional blog.
All professional blogging will take place on www.people4objects.org.
Second, more technology: Today, I finally chose the webhosting of my digital picture archive with www.flickr.com - it's just too great and the pro service is only $25/yr.
Third, a fresher design: Thanks to Blogger.com's resentless work to improve their product, I found a design that resonates much more with my taste but still uses db4objects' corporate green and hence my current favorite color (www.db4o.com).
Let's see whether this is compelling enough to make this a living blog...
Cheers!

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