Working out with P90X: Part 8

And so it ends, for now. Twelve weeks after starting my first P90X workout, I can say that I'm a changed person. P90X is not your momma's workout and it doesn't get any easier from week to week -- at least if you're doing it right it doesn't. So, how changed am I? Let's …

Working out with P90X: Part 7

Time to get right back into the mix. Recovery week is over and it's the holidays. Not necessarily a good combination.

As I predicted eating was definitely touch and go over the holiday. Partly because I love my gran's cooking but mostly because my willpower wasn't …

Working out with P90X: Part 6

And so ends another two weeks on P90X. I have to be honest, these last couple weeks have been tough. Not only because I've been striving to push myself further, but mostly because my body is starting to really feel worn down. I'm not sure if it's the exercise catching …

Working out with P90X: Part 5

And so ends another fabulous week of working my ass off. Recovery week is definitely over and my body is feeling it. Sure, skipping the last couple days of recovery week didn't help keep my body prepared but still, there's no easing back into any workouts on P90X.

This …

Working out with P90X: Part 4

Finally the first recovery period has come and boy is it a relief. Well, sort of. Even though it's called a recovery week the only difference between this week and any other week is the lack of muscle building exercise. In its place it's business as usual with cardio …

Working out with P90X: Part 3

Three weeks have passed since I started using P90X and I'm coming up on the first recovery period. This last few weeks have been quite the eye-opener. In a good way of course. The first week was killer and here's a quick breakdown of the last couple weeks.

Week 2

Oh …

Working out with P90X: Part 2

The hype behind P90X and it's difficulty is not overdone. This program is hard. It will kick your butt every day. Fortunately on each video Tony states, repeatedly, that if you're not at the same level as the demonstrators you don't have to keep up with them. Take …

Working out with P90X: Part 1

Over the years I've been both obsessed and completely indifferent to improving my fitness. I've tried several different methods, programs, and techniques to do so. I've done cardio only, my own weight-lifting program, Body For Life, and various others. Now I'm going to …

Zen thought for the week of October 13th

This zen thought was said during a conversation about relationship length. After asking about quantifying what counts as a relationship I expected a typical "about two weeks" or "after you've been introduced to the friend circle" type of response. The actual response …

Design thieves are idiots

Today a friend of mine found out his site got ripped. In this day and age ripping someone's site so blatantly is the lowest of the low. And you're going to get caught.

If you're selling yourself as a designer or design agency you should either have enough talent to …

Gotcha with getting offsets in Javascript

Over the past several days I've been playing around with jQuery, trying to retool a couple things I've been working on. This is my first foray into jQueryland and it's been pleasant thus far. I did, however, run into a confusing little issue with pageX and pageY.

What's …

Sliding backgrounds with -webkit CSS

After days -- and several attempts -- of scratching my head and trying to figure out how to have sliding backgrounds, ala Dave Shea's A List Apart article with CSS only, I think I've cracked it. Here's a quick look at how you can set up sliding CSS backgrounds using …

More -webkit-transition funniness.

Today I was revisiting my last attempt at doing sliding backgrounds or transitions with WebKit specific CSS properties. For some reason I thought there was another way around it. So far, I haven't found one to achieve the effect I'm going for but I did find something …

FancyZoom. But edgier.

The talk around town is that a couple boys, in some podunk town, wrote some Javascript code that has given them more hits in the last couple days then they could have imagined. Not sure it's all that fancy though, it still uses tables and that just won't do.

Even with …

You can't transition a gradient, apparently.

While I was mulling through my feeds tonight I saw a link to Dave Shea's CSS Sprites2 article on A List Apart. To be honest, I haven't actually read it -- though I will soon, promise -- but seeing the examples put a bug in my brain. Maybe those effects could be done …

Font unavailability -or- Why Adobe sucks, still.

Today I wanted to spruce up a site design with a nicer typeface. I also wanted to stay away from image replacement techniques and sIFR, which makes the job that much harder. Obviously the major problem is what typeface can I use that will be constant on both Windows and …

Making Progress

After forcing myself, and being encouraged by others, I'm proud to report that I've successfully made it to the gym 8 out of 11 times in the last two weeks. I'd say this is a pretty good start on this portion of my yo-yo trip to a healthier lifestyle.

In case you're …

Bi-annual Post on Getting Fit

It seems that I've written a decent amount about getting fit or getting healthy over the past couple years. Sometimes I stick with it and give regular updates, other times not so much. Whether that's procrastination or a problem with motivation, I'm not sure.

As Van …

Getting Wordpress Email Notifications using Google Apps

This is partly a reminder to myself and partly a note to the community as a whole. Ever since I set up screenflicker.com to use Google Apps for email I've not been able to receive emails sent from my WordPress install. After doing loads of searches and double or triple …

Does momma still dress you?

I'm noticing a trend happening a little too often for my tastes lately. If the title didn't give it away, the thing I'm noticing is that more and more people are making very bad decisions when it comes to their wardrobe.

You could make the point that I'm not the …