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• 07:31 up and at 'em on the shores of Lake Union. Glad it didn't snow again last night!
• 08:16 who thought losing weight could be as simple as eating fewer calories? maybe things aren't as hard as we try to make them out to be.
• 13:43 beautiful blue skies in Seattle. Can't see SE from here, but I hope Rainier's presenting today (would be my first time seeing in 6 trips)
• 14:44 headed to SEA on my way home to SFO.
• 15:01 Wow. Mt Rainier is so majestic rising above the clouds. I want to climb it :)
• 16:09 handy: search Bay Area zip codes to see who's 90 days behind in payment on their mortgage (there goes the 'hood?): ginx.com/-xquFx
• 18:57 Landed at SFO. Home within the hour (hooray)
• 19:15 it's so easy at SFO to spot who's on their way to Las Vegas for the weekend. They're giddy with visions of fun times ahead
• 20:39 it's good to be home. Gotta get a decent night's sleep before tomorrow's Woodside Half Marathon tho

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• 05:43 nice guide for the top ten ways to be hit by a car while on a bike (and how to avoid them). names of each are great ginx.com/-vwoRu
• 06:25 heading out the door to SEA by way of SFO
• 07:56 Safely aboard UA510 waiting for the doors to close
• 10:25 landed at SEA-TAC. surprised to see so much snow on the ground here.
• 10:46 RT @neddotcom: Helped buy 100 copies of "Three Cups of Tea" for 5th graders in New Jersey ginx.com/-k9f5 plz consider helping out
• 10:47 @RocchiJulia congratulations, Julia!
• 13:09 fish burrito from Tacos del Mar in Seattle/Lake Union = yum!
• 13:14 i want all my stuff clean coal clean! ginx.com/-DMGW

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• 09:20 I'm on the road to recovery from this flu bug. Sights are set on the Woodside half marathon this Saturday, so no training til race day.
• 09:45 @jesca quoi?
• 09:51 @jackodog say it isn't so! the car's just around back, right?
• 10:10 RT @triswimcoach: A calorie is not a calorie. Great nutrition article from Triathlete Mag ginx.com/-QYZg
• 10:38 falling in love with kite diagrams all over again (thanks @valdiskrebs)
• 11:01 RT @cothrel: Take 2: Neil B on our new Community Health Index: ginx.com/-HhwI. Some background from me on same: bit.ly/WoUOu
• 11:39 wow, video on trashout squad scouring foreclosures is heartbreaking (but also highlights a biz oppty) ht boingboing ginx.com/-lHJL
• 13:29 I really enjoy the buzz I get from folks requesting to use my CC'd Flickr pictures in their own work. Great to see how my work helps theirs.
• 16:40 Great xTri article on benchmarking your swimming #triathlon ginx.com/-4tug
• 19:59 Kids menu at Applebees has changed. Instead of being cheap ($1.99 ea) Mon-Thurs is now Free on Tuesdays only.
• 20:52 putting the finishing touches on my presentation and then it's time to print it out. Off to Seattle first thing in the morning.
• 21:58 presentation printed, bags packed, now it's time to unwind with a beer :)

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• 09:05 reading "Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!" ginx.com/-OeN5K
• 13:34 RT @sarahkay: Omidyar Network grants 4.5M to Opportunity Intl for innovative use of tech 4 microfinance in Africa ginx.com/-FAsF
• 15:57 about to give up ice cream for 40 days. I wonder if I can eat a whole carton tonight to tide me over?
• 15:59 RT @ktvu: California Senate Committee Sides With Prop. 8 Foes ginx.com/-i6SH
• 16:24 grooving to Raising Sand by Plant and Krauss. what a great collaboration
• 16:37 RT @cshirky: Support @carlmalamud as head of Govt Printing Office ginx.com/-glPm Carls been indispensable on Govt data for 20 years
• 17:53 feeling a little sheepish for skipping track practice tonight, but gotta shake this cold before Saturday.
• 20:31 RT @EverymanTri A tweet for help: David Zabriskie's bikes, cars, everything stolen from cyclist's home: ginx.com/-oskC

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• 10:40 RT @leelefever: Reading: ginx.com/-2G2x
• 10:45 hooray! Tropicana OJ cartons will once again look like Tropicana OJ should & not some design experiment gone wrong. ginx.com/-PUOUT
• 11:19 dammit, my iPod is dead. death by drowning during yesterday's long run in the rain. a night in a sack of rice didn't help dry it out. RIP
• 13:04 RT @ginx: Happy Monday, we're ready to add more Ginx users! Invite code: 38ADC8BB9E06 Good for multiple uses, first come first served.
• 13:23 RT @ginx: Ginx code (38ADC8BB9E06) is used up. If you didn't get it, message @ginx & we'll get you on the list as more codes come available.
• 13:24 amazing what a bowl of chicken noodle soup will do to help you feel better.
• 15:03 RT @EllnMllr: Approp Omnibus bill released in a PDF form. Earmarks -- unidentified ones -- galore. Read more here: ginx.com/-iR2c
• 15:12 @joanhan wtg!
• 16:24 i think i sound like the lead singer from Crash Test Dummies today. mmm mmm mmm mmm
• 19:23 How 'bout them Sharks!

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• 10:30 A deliciously rainy & windy morning for a long run at Sawyer Camp Trail. Cut short at 9 mi when rain was going sideways. Brr cold
• 14:02 @bmonsma had sights set on 12+ mi (prep for 1/2 marathon next Sat) but cut short. c'est la vie!
• 17:55 i think the cold going 'round the office has finally caught up with me. ugh

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• 06:36 #triathlon gear all packed up and ready to go. time to rack the bike and drive to the start line. swim begins in two hours. wish me luck!
• 10:23 Feeling good about the first tri of the year. 1:23:20 to finish
• 14:25 rough splits for this morning's sprint #triathlon: 11:58, 36:49, 25:54 (500m swim, 12.1mi bike, 5k run) with 8:36 in transitions (T1+T2)
• 20:07 @badgerpendous amazing how quickly they grow, eh? Glad to see your two girls are doing well.

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• 09:46 je suis trés amusé that Rue89 has linked to my urban chickens blog in their article re: the US financial crisis ginx.com/-iN0M
• 11:24 RT @EllnMllr: Awesome RWW asks What Should Obama's CTO Do With Public Data?" ginx.com/-cAlj. Thanks @marshallk
• 12:08 @aaronstrout touching the whale baleen? say hi to Pinocchio while you're in there!
• 12:29 happy to have found @FELTBicycles here on Twitter (that's my ride!)
• 13:13 RT @stevecase: Very proud of work of ABC2, started by my late brother Dan. More hope now! RT @curebraintumors ginx.com/-Hhj6
• 13:23 seems with all this talk of giving something up for Lent, these (new year's) resolution tips would come in handy: ginx.com/-7knC
• 13:59 RT @pierre: Hah! Brad Stone at New York Times blogs about my using Twitter while being sued: ginx.com/-8LIs [me: LMAO]
• 14:08 @FELTBicycles I'm on an '07 Z35. It's my first carbon bike and I'm loving it. Handles the triathlons quite nicely with clip-on aeros
• 14:15 @jesca RT = retweet = relaying someone else's tweet with credit to the original twitterhandle (glad you asked!)
• 15:52 great quote from @penelopetrunk: "The under-45's are stunned by the selfishness of the baby boomer era" [me: amen!] ginx.com/-ZEndu
• 16:11 @ginx I like the DM icon showing up in the tweet stream to show there's one waiting for me. nice touch!
• 16:20 visualizing my transition area for tomorrow's sprint #triathlon. Excited to do my first swim/bike/run of 2009. Bricks are fun & all, but...
• 16:34 @itchbay thanks!
• 17:15 @jrushin I like your choice of Rx!

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• 10:29 appreciating (again) how talking with someone else helps one realize just how much one knows about a given subject. forest for the trees?
• 10:46 excited for a whirlwind trip to Seattle next Thursday/Friday
• 11:10 wish the keyboard shortcut "M" for Gmail and Reader matched up. Tired of muting my gmail conversations when trying marking them unread.
• 12:06 @jrushin I think white papers don't work as a sole source of info: can't get that kind of long attn span any more. Need summary for masses.
• 13:16 RT @mndaniels: Debunking 6 Social Media Myths: ginx.com/-aFPh
• 13:35 RT @valdiskrebs: The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis -- ginx.com/-R0s4 [me: best 10min explainer I've seen]
• 16:04 here's a great toe-tapping soundtrack for anything you're doing at your computer now (well, almost anything) ginx.com/-mZey
• 16:20 I can personally vouch for the efficacy of 4 of these low-tech hacks. guess which 4? ginx.com/-A0te
• 16:46 RT @pierre: This may have been my favorite #TED talk this year: Barry Schwartz on practical wisdom: ginx.com/-PHEF
• 17:16 just discovered the new blip.fm interface (need to blip more). nice work!
• 17:29 RT @urbanchickens: how about a little genetic diversity? we can't have all our chickens looking like royalty! ginx.com/-35IS
• 19:22 Getting ready to play week 2 of our darts season. Hearts and prayers are with Dan and his family.

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• 09:24 RT @pierre: Ok, now I've seen everything: I'm being sued by someone who claims I've been palling around with terrorists.
• 10:23 RT @playpumps: The Nation: A World Without Water ginx.com/-sswp [me: wow, water bankruptcy in 20 years?]
• 10:28 great post by @kanter on the ROI of Social Media ginx.com/-G8MP
• 11:38 already anxious for this season's first triathlon on Saturday (even tho it's just practice, sprint-distance). gotta train the nerves, too.
• 14:44 RT @neddotcom: New NedSpace company in final chats with local Oregon angel investor and a nice $200,000 investment. Go NedSpace startups
• 15:29 RT @christine: turning the tables and embarrassing my super mom. :) ginx.com/-VuzL
• 17:27 boy, I wish there'd been a coupon program to defray the costs of upgrading to CDs from cassettes when I was younger. DTV #FAIL

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• 07:22 allergies or cold? stay tuned for the mid-day report
• 10:40 for those singing "rain, rain go away come again some other day": just shut up and take it today. tomorrow might be dry for once.
• 13:27 looking forward to being in the stands tonight as the Sharks beat the Oilers at the Shark Tank.
• 15:48 can't believe I've been brought to my knees trying to install a mediawiki wiki on dreamhost. (no, not the one-click method) humbled again.
• 15:51 luckily I can postpone my wiki troubles thanks to dreamhost being down (found @dhstatus for updates, tho)
• 16:09 my fav Firefox keyboard shortcut? Ctrl+Shift+T: Opens the last closed tab (I'm a multi-tab fiend & tend to accidentally close the wrong tab)
• 16:36 I think the live text updates at the website for #atoc would make for a great twitter-feed. all I'm sayin'
• 23:05 what an awesome Sharks game! (too bad ATT coverage inside the Shark Tank sucks rocks or I'd tweet from the game itself)

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• 09:43 glad I took advantage of the break in the storm yesterday to clean the gutters... they're getting heavy use today (hooray!)
• 18:02 Heading out for Valentine's Day dinner, the sequel. This time just the two of us in SF

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• 08:03 great to start Valentine's Day seeing a rainbow at sunrise

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• 08:35 thinking there's gotta be a less frenetic way to get the eldest ready for school and out of the house on time to make it by the bell
• 08:37 @alanlepo agreed! our Visa got jacked two weeks ago, and we're extra careful with how/where we use CCs. sign of the times?
• 09:30 RT @Elite_Racing: Check this out - @LanceArmstrong responds to Paul Kimmage at pre-race press conference ginx.com/-cXyF
• 10:01 RIP Ed Grothus, quite the character in my hometown of Los Alamos ginx.com/-mmyL
• 13:10 happily busy. so much to do.
• 14:10 someone complimented me on my lunch of fresh fruit, yogurt and almonds. I had to confess I ate pizza for lunch AND dinner yesterday :)
• 15:15 RIP Alison Des Forges, historian who documented 1994 genocide in Rwanda & expert on human rights abuses in Africa ginx.com/-IPMi
• 17:59 I love that it's still light out at 6pm

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• 10:34 @LAK54 Happy Birthday! Thanks for everything you did to bring @lancearmstrong into our world! you must be so proud.
• 10:49 RT @gapingvoid: So @WholeFoods, when are you going to start carrying @stormhoek wine? ;-) ginx.com/-L830
• 11:30 I do so appreciate good customer service when I get it. I just wish getting good cust svc wasn't such a remarkable event.
• 11:51 Looking forward to finding a way to get our solar-powered house hooked into this Google smart-grid program ginx.com/-xqVb
• 12:15 @randyching great essay by @cshirky. His points about superdistribution speaks to me about why I like @ginx so much ginx.com/-MaCe
• 13:06 RT @jennlt1: Thanks for the heads up @MarketingTwins: Twitter jumped to #3 from #22 among social media services. ginx.com/-oxvz
• 13:18 RT @oseaomediagroup: Oseao Distributes Youssou N'Dour Project ginx.com/-S8NI follow IHOPEN
• 13:27 @sacca 24 hrs advanced notice of a middle seat is worse: you get all that time to dread the potential size/odor/yappiness of your row mates
• 13:46 RT @lawrenceswiader: 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats from The Future Buzz: ginx.com/-phtM
• 14:48 says @rafe: "Ginx is better than Twitter.com for accessing your Twitter feeds" DM me for an access code ginx.com/-6jr
• 16:01 nice howto preso on going viral with your app: Discovery Is The New Cocaine - Going Beyond ... tinyurl.com/5xjtob
• 17:16 RT @triswimcoach: Tri Swim Coach Giveaway 27 tips (actually 26): ginx.com/-EEV9
• 18:51 so glad the KQED winter pledge drive is over tonight. Good riddance
• 19:26 Kicking off the spring season for SCVDA darts. Good to be back playing out of Fibbars in Synnyvale

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• 15:19 PCA owner pleads the Fifth when asked why he shipped his salmonella-tainted peanut products. disgusting behavior. ginx.com/-qyqB
• 16:28 what are *your* ideas for the new liberal arts? see: ginx.com/-UBhz
• 16:54 @blogger thanks for the update... statcounter seems to confirm the redirect issue is resolved. you guys rock!
• 17:09 great to be able to watch the #shorty awards live at ginx.com/-6VpQ wtg @FLWbooks!
• 17:17 puttin' on the ritz at #shorty awards... nice
• 17:27 heading home to catch the rest of the Sharks v Penguins. Go Sharks!
• 21:45 watching a replay of the 2008 Ironman World Championship 70.3 just to get in the mood for racing my first 70.3 this summer
• 08:03 thanks to the dry winter here in CA, the spring allergies have arrived early. ugh
• 10:34 @LAK54 Happy Birthday! Thanks for everything you did to bring @lancearmstrong into our world! you must be so proud.
• 10:49 RT @gapingvoid: So @WholeFoods, when are you going to start carrying @stormhoek wine? ;-) ginx.com/-L830
• 11:30 I do so appreciate good customer service when I get it. I just wish getting good cust svc wasn't such a remarkable event.
• 11:51 Looking forward to finding a way to get our solar-powered house hooked into this Google smart-grid program ginx.com/-xqVb
• 12:15 @randyching great essay by @cshirky. His points about superdistribution speaks to me about why I like @ginx so much ginx.com/-MaCe
• 13:06 RT @jennlt1: Thanks for the heads up @MarketingTwins: Twitter jumped to #3 from #22 among social media services. ginx.com/-oxvz
• 13:18 RT @oseaomediagroup: Oseao Distributes Youssou N'Dour Project ginx.com/-S8NI follow IHOPEN
• 13:27 @sacca 24 hrs advanced notice of a middle seat is worse: you get all that time to dread the potential size/odor/yappiness of your row mates
• 13:46 RT @lawrenceswiader: 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats from The Future Buzz: ginx.com/-phtM

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• 08:37 RT @cshirky: MPAA to Public:All your intermets are belong to us! "Network monitoring"in broadband stimulus bill: ginx.com/-Vuvi
• 09:48 @pamo any luck bringing the Humane Society in to deal with the rooster?
• 11:47 just found out my wave in Vineman 70.3 hits the water at 6:38am, just after the pros. Hope I'll miss the heat of the day during the run.
• 13:26 RT @HopeLab: nice recap of @johnmaeda and HopeLab's @PamO at RWJF's gaming event at #TED: ginx.com/-4prK
• 15:16 RT @mediabistro: Great post on @RWW about @CraigNewmark's keynote yesterday at #UGCX on building community. ginx.com/-9Q61
• 15:36 being thankful can raise your own happiness by 25%. what are you thankful for? ginx.com/-OySp
• 19:47 how 'bout them Sharks?!

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• 09:32 Cross-country skiing eleven miles at 7500' is a great workout. Still feeling it in the legs today.
• 09:55 Glacier Point ski trip pictures up on Flickr ginx.com/-tU84
• 11:50 Great graph on emerging search landscape. I like the "expressed v considered" content spectrum (see 1/2 way down): tinyurl.com/dfoq6x
• 11:57 @simplytheresa only saw Clark Range from the Point. Had a great time at the hut, tho. McCray is an awesome host.
• 14:51 Tour of California (with @lancearmstrong in the pelaton) rolls into Santa Cruz next Monday. I'm so there at the finish line.
• 15:49 The more I read about the way-overdue peanut butter recall, the more angry I get at PCA, the company responsible ginx.com/-5l4
• 21:52 short night of poker for me. I go all in with pocket cowboys and the luckiest guy at the table's sitting on pocket rockets. Aces win.
• 23:33 off to bed.

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• 16:26 Made it back to the car. Driving home from Yosemite. Pix on Flickr by midnight
• 22:16 home again, and I think I'll be going to bed before our youngest, even (why she's still up, I do not know)

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• 08:24 Crisp and clear at Yosemite today. Dropping off the grid to ski to Glacier Point
• 17:42 Made it to the hut at Glacier Point. Freezing but stunning views outside. Fire roaring inside. Ahhh

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