Pedal, pedal

I'm gearing up (too) slowly after the recent check up, but progress is visible. I've lost another couple of pounds, I feel my appetite is under control, and today I hit the exercise bike again and it didn't hit back.

However, I think my love affair with the McRib sandwich has to end immediately. Sigh, I liked those things.

The Ongoing Decline of Western Civilization, Media Edition

I don't which is the saddest sign of the magazine publishing industry of the following that earned shelf space at the local Safeway:

• A Historical Commemorative Woman for All Seasons magazine fawning over Sarah Palin that was too cheap to find a unique cover photo of her instead of the standard Red Suit head and shoulders media shot.
  
• Star Wars has its own magazine. Still.
  
• The cover of Rachel Ray's own magazine managed to make her look fat. :-)
  

Of course, they had a copy of Twlight in paperback which I could browse, so the rack wasn't a complete loss.

This Time, We Mean it ...

The POST failure has been checked. Result is not a major issue, but something I won't note here lest a few search engines archive it for posterity to be retrieved out of context.

Action to take, startlingly enough, is lose weight. No funky or otherwise medications needed. But the good idea just got even more important.

An important note is that I am cleared to exercise.

POST Failure Redux - Seek Service

After another long break, I'm back on the exercise bike. Yesterday was my fourth ride on an every other day schedule. Unfortunately, I ran into another episode of being overheated and unsteady about fifteen minutes after I got off. I didn't think I was that hungry, but eating a fruit cup cleared me up enough to get real lunch.

Time to an appointment and get the system checked.

iPhone vs ...

My iPhone has resumed growing on me. Maybe I need shots for it. Following up my previous comments:

• The Omnifocus people got their act together and stopped crashing.
  
• The SplashId thinking it was a new install is not their fault, a number of applications can act like that, due to an Apple bug.
  
• The Urbanspoon application does have the ability to lock the location, etc, but they hide it in plain sight. *sigh*
  

I wonder how it will rate against the Google Android after the latter has a few months of public use and feedback. (Comparing new to burned in would be unfair. )

The iPhone You Love to Hate

I have an original iPhone from work which I use for on-call duty plus person use. It's now running the iPhone 2.0 software and various nifty apps from the Apple Apps store.

Random iPhone 2.0 software comments:

• Applications that crash silently return to the main menu. This gets interesting when an app corrupts it data and crashes every time it starts up. Hello, OmniFocus for iPhone developers? (I had to delete it and reinstall.)
  
  (Fortunately, I had previously synced the data to my Mac.)
  
• An application upgrading over the Net decided it was a new install and cleared its database. Hello, SplashId developers?
  
  (Fortunately, I had synced that data to my Mac as well.)
  
• Cute apps that randomly lookup real data could use options. Yes, I want to eat random food. No, I don't want to drive randomly 20 miles. Hello, UrbanSpoon developers?

Random general Apple comments:

• Apple letting their servers getting swamped on launch day by people registering new iPhones while others upgrade
  was, for want of a better term, lame. Capacity is not free or easy, but a business decision to make a big splash with a global launch needs to be backed up with resources and fallback plans.
• If launch issues were lame, the outages with Apple's online service Mobile Me are scary. As David Pogue documented, 1% of the users could not access their mail for days.
• No talk of Apple can go without mention of Steve Jobs; this week's topic is the secrecy over his health. Words don't describe anything to do with the cult of Steve.

Gotta Check That Manual

I rode the bike again, again feeling wiped. It would have helped if the bike had been ridden since my last post on the topic.