October 2007 Entries
The Alley Insider picked up my twitter as their Tweet of the Day No Time For Slow Web Apps "Thinking about switching from Wesabe to Mint. Low tolerance for slow web apps in 2007... cough twitter cough." -- Notches founder Corey Henderson. I had posted here about Wesabe and in the mean time I set up Wesabe Wednesdays on my calendar where I processed my finances each week using their tool. Performance has been suffering with their site lately and my frustrations there plus seeing some of those sexy Mint screenshots spurred my interests over in their...
I currently run mainly in the near-perfect Asics DS Trainer 11. The problem is 1) the 2007 (12) model was a faux pas and Asics knows it, and the promised improved version won't be out until Jan 2008. 2) I found that I can only get about 150 miles out of them and after that I can't run more than about six miles before it starts to hurt. The cushion in the forefoot has just broken down, the insole is tissue-paper thin at the ball of my foot and at $100 per pair, it isn't really a good value....
Emily, my main squeeze, is training for the NYC marathon this year and raising money for Team for Kids. TFK (for short) is:
The foundation serves more than 25,000 children who would otherwise have little or no access to physical education, through a running-based fitness and character building program they also teach goal-setting and nutrition. You can read more about them online at http://tfkworldwide.org/.
As part of Emily's drive to the fundraising finish, she is putting on a raffle of her own design. She's gone out and gotten some really great prizes donated from places like: Touch & Go Records,...