OK, so I feel like the blog is pretty much back to normal. WordPress is about a zillion times better than Movable Type: Installation’s a breeze (you have to know how to create database on your server but not too…
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Rock face and clouds
by tom • November 26, 2007 • 0 Comments
Rock face and clouds, originally uploaded by busybeingborn. Just a test of the Flickr “blog this” function.
In praise of pedometers
by tom • November 26, 2007 • 2 Comments
This story got some press last week: People who walk with a pedometer go farther and get healthier, according to a Stanford researcher: Bravata and colleagues explain that although there has been a surge in popularity for pedometers as a…
How athletes lose it, and get it back
by tom • November 26, 2007 • 3 Comments
The New York Times ran an interesting piece the other day about staying in shape, getting out of shape, and matching your workout with what you do for fun. The story opens with the experience of a competition rower who…
Rock City at Mount Diablo State Park
by tom • November 26, 2007 • 7 Comments
You don’t hear much clamor among hikers to check out the Rock City area at Mount Diablo State Park. The rocks are very cool, but they’re also covered in the initials, names and graduation years of lord knows how many…
RSS reader update
by tom • November 25, 2007 • 4 Comments
Near as I can tell, all the feeds are feeding. Tested on several readers including Bloglines, MyYahoo and Google. So, any minute now I might start working on some hiking-related content.
Stop the presses, I’m actually going hiking
by tom • November 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
I’m heading up to Mount Diablo to check out the Rock City area today (duty calls; this’ll be for another column in the Mercury News). It’s my last major section of the park still unexplored. Tons more minor ones, plus…
Getting sorta back to normal
by tom • November 24, 2007 • 2 Comments
Ok, so we’re getting near the point where some actual hiking related content can happen here. If you’re an RSS reader, you’ll probably want to re-subscribe to the feeds.
Trying to post a pic
by tom • November 24, 2007 • 2 Comments
This works pretty well.