Another Little Tool & Beating the System
Just a quick post this morning… I notice that a few folks really like the mapping tool built on Google maps that lets you see how far your walk, run or your bike ride has been so I figured I would pass along another little tool for the strong type A folks out there. If you want to log your walks, runs or bike rides and you want to keep track of your training history (i.e. distance, heart rate, miles on shoes, pace, etc.) or you just can’t get enough stats, this might be for you. (Yup that’s right Jungle I’m thinking of you!)
Here is a site that I use to see how pathetic my training for my marathons is… course I usually get lazy and forget to log my runs.. but so far I have been better this year… it has great reports and stuff once you get your data in there…. anyway, let me know if you like it.
The other little tid bit, I almost feel bad sharing it as I don’t want them to take it away, is viewing stories online that require a paid registration or login. The one site that it happens to me the most on is the Globe and Mail when I want to read one of the opinion columns. There is a very easy way around it.
Step 1) Go to the article and copy the title of the article
Step 2) Go to news.google.com
Step 3) Paste in the title
Step 4) The first link should be the Globe article with all of the text, for free! 
With that I will leave you with a blurb from Margaret Wente, one of my favorite columnists.
From her article in the Saturday Globe and Mail:
“I couldn’t have known it at the time, but I was blessed to be a youth during those fleeting years when nothing was forbidden and all things were permitted. We smoked. We drank. We had unprotected sex with strangers. We ingested illicit substances, and when we got the munchies, we gorged ourselves on jelly doughnuts. We even seduced our professors, and vice versa. The dark cloud of AIDS was not yet on the horizon. We never gave a thought to secondhand smoke, sexual harassment, or our cholesterol.
‘Twas bliss to be alive back then, and I pity all of you who weren’t. My favourite line in poetry came from Blake: “Damn braces, bless relaxes.”
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ah… to turn back the clock…. what we missed.
