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I benched 225 today.
I didn’t feel like doing my usual workout today, so I decided to do a one rep max test on bench. It’s a milestone of sorts. It wasn’t too long ago that I had trouble getting over 200.
Also, it happens to be more weight than my final goal weight, so I can bench more than I will weigh. Not quite as significant as benching your own weight for reps, but at 280 that would be really, really impressive.
I think I might like a Bun-eep-bury (Turducken-inspired, as it might be) better than a real Turducken.
(Via Boing Boing.)
Yes, a gazillion people are writing about it. If you haven’t seen Google Calendar, yet go check it out.
So the highlights, for me …
One. Finally I can exchange invites with non-Mac-nerd mere mortals. Well, almost. Gmail doesn’t seem to pick up ics attachments, yet. I’m sure it will. The docs for the calendar implies that Gmail will also pixie-dust-parse your mails for invite-like text. That’ll be slick when it works.
Two. RSS feeds of calendars. This is slick. PHP iCalendar does it, but in a very weird way. I’ll see how that ends up working. The only thing that disappoints me is that it doesn’t seem to let you subscribe to the RSS feed of subscribed calendars. Even though the XML badge is there for the subscribed calendar, I couldn’t get it subscribed in NetNewsWire. Maybe it’s because it’s set as “Anyone can see: nothing” with no way to change that setting, like on calendars you create inside Google Calendar.
The URL returns an HTTP 302 redirect to a URL that returns an HTTP 500 with a body that sets the title to “404 Not Found”. Whoops. If this works eventually, I’ll be a happy happy man. This will let me do RSS feeds of calendars I manage in iCal and publish via WebDAV without having to host it myself, i.e., my Workout calendar.
Three. Multiple editors/owners. I haven’t tried this, yet, but it seems you can have more than one person edit a calendar. Before now, I don’t believe there’s been an ics-standard-based tool to let you do that. I’m hoping this will take the burden of managing my soccer season calendars off of me and put it on the whole team. Yes, I am that lazy.
Four. Works with iCal. At least one event I sent did. They’re clearly working out the kinks in making their messages compatible with all mail readers and calendar systems. The gist is, they include the calendar data twice, one as a text/calendar in a multipart/alernative and one as an application/ical as a part of the main message. This is probably to work around Thunderbird weirdness, where it will always show the HTML part of an multipart/alternative. Mail.app lets you switch between the parts of a multipart/alternative. It’s strange because it defaults to the text/calendar part if there’s an attachment. So in this case Mail.app shows you two different attachments. I haven’t tried it with Outlook, yet, I imagine it works.
What’s missing (aside from sundry bug fixes)? No WebDAV publishing. This makes sense, Google doesn’t want you using them for storage, they want you using the tool itself. Maybe some of those issues go away when things like RSS feeds work properly with subscribed calendars. You’ll be able to publish it wherever and use Google Calendar to get it to the rest of the world.
Anyway, off to play with it some more.
Update: If you check the “Allow others to find this public calendar via Google Calendar search?” checkbox when subscribing, suddenly the RSS feed works. I’d like a way to have a “private” RSS feed, like you can with calendars you create there.
If you’re reading this, DNS has propogated to you and you’re looking at the new host (Dreamhost, to be exact).
There seem to be issues with the Markdown plugin, so I’ve turned it off temporarilly. There will be a number of old posts that don’t render properly. For the most part all should be well, as I haven’t been relying on Markdown in a while.
I’m in the middle of migrating this blog to another host. Hopefully it’ll go flawlessly. This will be the last post here. When DNS propagates you’ll see the new place.
Except she doesn’t get naked and does lick the floor. Eww.
(Via jwz.)
