Yesterday Atlas and I met up with Shel and Kate in Centennial park for a hot, but enjoyable walk around the lake. The weather was gorgeous, and everyone was out in full force – from kayakers to scooter riders. Shel was pretty fascinated by the bikers and doggies running by, but I managed to get him to sit still for a few short moments.
July, 2009
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Summer walk
Monday, July 27th, 2009Marathon season
Friday, July 24th, 2009Well, it’s that time again. Marathon training is in full swing as I gear up for the 2009 Chicago Marathon. This will be my second time running a marathon – a goal which initially started out explicitly as a goal, is now a running “addiction.” As I explain to other DC folk, it’s quite common here – everyone is an overachiever, so why not push your body to the limits while you’re equally exhausting your brain with 60 hour weeks and a social life on top of that?
At any rate, I’m trying out something new this year. I’ve purchased Nike+ and have begun logging my runs online. It’s kinda cool to see how far I’ve run over the long-term, though since I haven’t calibrated the system yet, the time and distance should be slightly disregarded :). Hopefully I’ll be posting more updates about my runs here, and in the meantime you can follow my running via my Nike+ badge on the right as well as my new Twitter handle @runwithasmile, where I’ll be posting Tweets about running and training.
links for 2009-07-09
Thursday, July 9th, 2009-
Remember the days when college-age cool kids dominated Facebook? As Facebook evolved, its audience changed too. Take a look at the most recent demographic stats compiled by iStrategyLabs after reviewing Facebook’s ad data.
links for 2009-07-08
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009-
'THE Real World" has de scended on Washing ton, DC — and the locals are peeved.
In fact, a whole blog, the Anti-Real World DC, has been set up to chronicle just how irritating filming on the 23rd iteration of MTV's pioneering reality series has been for residents of historic, upscale Dupont Circle.
links for 2009-07-07
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009-
Cybercriminals are rapidly using Twitter- the popular Web-messaging service – to direct users to websites that sell porn and fake drugs and trigger promotions for fake anti-virus subscriptions.
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In the hills of Mexico, a tribe of Indians carries an ancient secret: a diet and fitness regimen that has allowed them to outrun death and disease. We set out to discover how the rest of us can catch up.
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Unless you want to reinstall Wordpress completely to start using Wordpress MU, these 10 plugins are great for adding community to a Wordpress blog. From simple added functionality, to complete community integration, all of these plugins are highly rated and useful.
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The Te of Piglet is a book that came out over a decade ago. It is about the virtue of smallness featured in Taoist philosophy. Smallness in the West gets a mixed reception. For the most part, we are a culture focused on largeness. Until only recently, American ideals included large homes, large cars, large portfolio valuations and living ‘larger than life.’
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Facebook is the 5th most trafficked site in the United States. Over 179,000 nonprofits utilize Facebook Causes but just how sticky is Facebook? You may be surprised to see some recent stats that question how successful Facebook is as an engagement tool.
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A follow-up to our earlier post on email marketing — in this special guest article, Scott Jahnke, the Director of Student and Young Alumni Development at Stanford University, discusses some recent fundraising campaigns that his department has built and distributed through the Involver platform.
A day in the park
Sunday, July 5th, 2009My mom and I traveled to Acadia National Park on July 3rd, to see if we might find some sunshine and something to photograph. The weather in New England has been horrible for the past several weeks and we weren’t sure what we’d find. Luckily the weather improved during our drive there – a few openings of sunshine through the clouds – and the lush green foliage around the carriage roads was spectacular.
Here are some shots from the afternoon:
