2008年 6月 10日

One less excuse

Posted in Exercise Diary, Food Diary at 8:18 pm by TBBle (Visited times)

My mother pointed me at CaloreKing Australia which is a web site for helping with weight loss.

I'll be using this to track my food intake and what little exercise I do. I'm quite hopeful, given its large-looking food database. So far there's not much I've had to add (the kangaroo meat I've been eating the main thing missing, and their Home Brand range seems rather small. In the latter case, I'm picking the things I believe are the branded equivalents.

I'll see how it goes, anyway. One of my weight-loss complaints was that it was all too hard to manage. This site has a menu-suggesting thing, and has an option to exclude all dairy items, so once I'm organised a bit and have gotten through the stuff in my cupboard, I might see how the suggested meals turn out.

It also lets you input nutritional targets and such, and provides some defaults, so I can get a good idea of my fat and protein intake (keeping them down) and my calcium intake (keeping it up). I was disappointed to see that the goat's cheese I get doesn't have a calcium value on the packet or the site, and it also about half my daily fat intake. So I'll be drinking more of the chocolate VitaSoy drink, which turns out to be a healthier way of getting my 1g of calcium a day. (That's a whole litre. I'll have to start taking it to work again. Horrors! ^_^)

The only issue I have with it so far is that I have to add a food to my daily record to see its statistics. So when trying to work out what to have for dinner tonight, I had to keep throwing combinations at it until something came up that balance out well. That's mainly because I had a pretty awful lunch though. ^_^

The site has a built-in blog system, but I don't see an option to just auto-publish my meals. I'd like to do that... I'm not sure why.

Edit: Carefully hidden away in the account options, my meal diary is now online.

2006年 6月 4日

All juiced out and nowhere to go

Posted in Debian, Exercise Diary, Food Diary at 9:26 pm by TBBle (Visited 1961 times)

I'm out of juice

In other news... Finally upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.0.3 and Spam Karma 2.2r3. Also decided to celebrate with a new theme, blog.txt. It's OK so far, apart from the title sizing... Dunno if I'll stick with it yet.

The actual content of this post is twofold... I used CurlFtpFS (A FUSE-based filesystem) to update the site. I chose CurlFtpFS over Fuseftp because the latter consistently failed to handle vimdiff. ^_^

Happily, on Debian, it was easy to set up. m-a a-i fuse gave me the fuse kernel modules, and then grabbing the CurlFtpFS Debian package.

The main disadvantage is that you can't see the FUSE-mounted share from my windows box over Samba... This may just be a permissions thing, as I can follow symlinks across filesystem mounts OK, although I didn't used to be able to.

The other fold is that I finally started my exercise regime. Tonight, about a half-hour on Stepmania, for 14 three-foot songs and a four-foot song. I'm working alphabetically through the list of songs at three-feet, and then my last set of the three for the night is whatever I feel like. And tonight I was in a Bubble Bobble, そばかす and WITCH DOCTOR mood.

Most frustrating song of the night was Beyblade 2000 - Off the Chains, the BPM seemed to be tuned to the rappers, not the actual beats. On the other hand, most frustrating in a good way was Cowboy Bebop - Tank [Para Para mix], 307BPM of surprise steps. Fun. ^_^

Final good news, the author of the Top 10 posts plugins noticed my updates. I was linked from a blog that shows up in the Wordpress Dashboard. ^_^

Meh, a few other things going on, I should be able to blog about them later this week. >_<

Edit: Back to Ocadia. Also, I bought juice. ^_^

2006年 2月 26日

Maginnis Magee

Posted in CBIT Internet, Food Diary at 11:42 pm by TBBle (Visited 1901 times)

Good
Light in Dark Corners: My Dad wrote this, and it's really really good. I've enjoyed it immensely, and highly recommend it. ^_^
Bad
Syriana: The movie was actually really good, but I felt bad after seeing it. It's a sad and scary world we live in, and that's over here on the easy side of it.
Educational
The AppleCare Protection Plan turns out to be good for keeping my laptop running.Since putting this into place, my laptop's not once dropped dead from overheating... I actually suspect if I'd configured the power settings properly this wouldn't be neccessary.

AppleCare Protection Plan 2AppleCare Protection Plan 1

That's actually the display box. We're an Apple reseller of some kind at CBIT, but due to lack of a front counter while the construction work happens out the back, all the display boxes are in my offfice...

Oh, the pain... I'm sitting here working on this entry at home, and the damn thing overheats. >_< I prolly should add a temperature sensor output of some kind to my desktop... Or at least bring the AppleCare Protection Plan home with me...

At least, I've a belly full of dairy-free pizza. Good on Dominos for publishing their list of allergens. ^_^

Edit: I forgot to give this post a clever title... I think this one's fitting. ^_^

2006年 2月 19日

Things to do in your loungeroom when you’re broke

Posted in CBIT Internet, Food Diary, LCA06, Linux at 8:27 pm by TBBle (Visited 959 times)

Meh. There's another weekend spent doing very little. And for a change, this didn't involve me spending any time either playing video games, or on IRC.

I took a troll through Planet Linux Australia (and also remembered to submit my blog there again...) and came up with the following links, for your eddification and mine:

So what else have I been doing? Well, I played with Google Maps until I identifed my current home, and the CBIT offices, although the latter's photo is slightly old now, as there's a sort of overhang thing over the entrance now.

I finished Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison. Happily, the next book in the series is due out in June... Although lord knows how long it'll take to get here. I also this week finished The Shining City by Kate Forsyth. Sequel also due mid-year, and she's Australian so I am more hopeful of seeing it before next summer... I prolly should go to one of those 'enter my books' sites and record for posterity just how many books I've spent my rent-money on.

Speaking of rent-money, I'm at the broke end of the week, so went last night and spent $32 on food until Wednesday. This covered four pot-noodles, five microwave paster dinners, and five bottles of Caffiene-Free Diet Coke. Also some lollies, to cover sugar-cravings. Mind you, I haven't eaten yet today... Hmm, I'd better do that soon.

Of course, you can't waste a weekend if you have no plans. And this weekend, I was supposed to finish the new CBIT Internet Customer Administration interface... It's neat, and AJAXified (using the very neat xajax PHP-based setup) and the only thing I did on this this weekend was fix a problem I was having with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows. I couldn't do this at work, because I'm developing under Linux on my PowerBook.

OK, I guess that's not all I did. I spent a few hours screwing with wine, trying trying get IE6 going under Win2K-mode (partly for the AJAX stuff, partly so I could run QuickBooks). I've gotten IE6 installed, but it seems to barf when making the AJAX calls, not to mention needing to be Ctrl-C'd when presenting a username/password box.

In the end, I grabbed the IEs 4 Linux script, which installed IE6 in it's own WINEPREFIX, like a charm. I'm well pleased with it. ^_^

I'm also gonna grab Opera to test the site against. Happily, not only do they have an Apt repository, they've also got a public beta program which includes Linux-PPC support. ^_^ This is really how commercial, closed-source software should be addressing the Linux community.

Also, Opera for Nintendo DS. I mean, like, wow.

Also wow, ABC's podcasts. I wonder if they'll do video podcasting soon? Not that I'm watching or listening to any podcasts, but...

I also wasted a few hours this weekend watching the latest episodes of TV shows from the US. Thinking about it, I watch: Battlestar Galactica, Boston Legal and House MD. I also watch Dr Who and Tripping The Rift when it's on... I know that Apple now sells TV episodes over their iPod store, and so I feel like I should be paying something to watch these shows, but I dunno what they're charging. I'd happily pay 50c per episode. I dunno if I'd pay more than that, though. Maybe if I had a better viewing setup, or planned on keeping the files and watching them again...

I also watched the Casanova BBC Miniseries last weekend. It was really really really good. ^_^ I was kinda iffy about the Heath Ledger movie, but Margaret and David thought it was leave-your-brain-at-the-door funny, and I'm now willing to give it a burl.

Hmm. I wish I was a large software corporation, so I could go try and do what Loki failed to do, but instead of buying the license and selling the game, I'd contract to the publishing houses to port the game for them, kind of like how many Mac-ported games seem to be done. I _really_ want to play GuildWars, but it doesn't yet work in wine, and don't want to reboot to Windows to do so. I _might_ give a burl to this partial success report for GuldWars on Wine...

And fun as Battle for Wesnoth is, I'm awful at it.

2006年 1月 18日

Once upon a time in California

Posted in CBIT Internet, Food Diary, General, Japan, LCA06, Linux at 1:52 am by TBBle (Visited 2205 times)

Saw "The Legend of Zorro" tonight with Bek and Sean. It was... interesting. A few fairly good fight scenes, with some nonsense in between to bulk out the movie. Bek and Sean commented that the movie could have done with some cutting, although really it was obvious that it had already had a fair bit of scissor-work taken to it. Particularly when one character says to another "As you said, 'You never see the one you love, you only see what you wish to see'" or words to that effect. Either I dozed off, or they cut the scene where the character in question actually says that. Maybe the actors decided the script was too long and coherent, and decided to adlib a bit. Who knows? It'll prolly be put back for the DVD, mind you. Then again, they _could_ decide to explore this particular editing path further on the DVD...

Spoiler Alert

The Legend Of Zorro: Zorro rides again in this blockbuster movie! Can Zorro defend the poor, downtrodden Spanish peasants of California from the evil French Count and his soap? Or will the Frenchman's wine prove too much for our hero?

Anyway, various interesting swordfights and similar. Apparently Catherine Zeta Jones learnt that one-inch punch from Kill Bill Vol. 2...

Previews of Aeon Flux (it looks cool, it had better be cool, or there'll be much crying and gnashing of teeth), Just Friends (Depressing, given my history... >_<) and Casanova (Looks amusing, but I'd rather watch the BBC miniseries I think. I'm sorry I missed it on the ABC late last year... I don't suppose anyone taped it?)

In other news, I got to the interview stage for the JET program. I'm not sure why they sent the notice to my mother's house, but there it is. Interview sometime in February, they're gonna call.

I got a phonecall from Melbourne yesterday afternoon... If that was JET, I'm confused as to why they called from Melbourne. If that's someone reading this, call again. I got no voice mail and my phone's phonebook didn't recognise the number. ^_^

I have to get the international roaming activated for my phone, on that topic. I'd die without a mobile in New Zealand. I'll prolly die when I see the phone bill. History suggests I make long phonecalls back to Canberra whenever I travel. On the plus side, calling me costs me 26c flat rate, so I'm as contactable as alays.

I'm all excited about the New Zealand trip. I've got all the accomodation worked out now, staying in Kiwi's Nest about three blocks from the university on the Friday and Saturday night, and at the university for the rest of the trip. I am also worried what CBIT will do without me, as the promised webadmin interface is not ready. Maybe I'll have a nice productive programming day tomorrow? The fact that I'm working on my blog at 1am suggests not...

On a side note, I think I've discovered Smilex... I can eat any one of sardines, tomatoes, tomato sauce, onion, curry powder, chillis, and noodles, but combine then together into a dish, the name of which escapes me (It looks like red sludge with noodles mixed in) and I have an upset stomach the next day. A friend pointed out that he's allergic to tomatoes, so I wonder if I am too... They're c

2005年 3月 6日

Another exciting day at the races

Posted in Food Diary, General at 2:36 am by TBBle (Visited 337 times)

Woke up, futzed around with the blog software a bit, had a piano lesson (I've started on When The Saints Go Marching In ^_^) and went home to eat lunch. Nor a particularly good lunch, either. Jam iced buns.

Futzed around on the computer more, preparing FreeRADIUS packages for upload, since I forgot to test them with lintian when I created them, but that's not a huge issue since my sponsors both got back to me and said they're busy until next week.

Went out to find food, taped two episodes of Rosemary and Thyme, and returned to find Shane had returned from his coast trip, and I wasn't expecting him back until Sunday. Given I only found out about the trip on Thursday, and found out he was going on Friday, this lack of information shouldn't have surprised me. ^_^ No one asked if I wanted to go though. >_<

Idled around on IRC for a while, got into a discussion of copyright and source, which ranged from Finland's Lay Judge system, through to some direct personal abuse against me, something along the lines of (caps as per writer) "STOP THINKING LIKE A CALCULATOR AND FUCKING THINK FOR YOURSELF". This lead to my first /ignore in many many years of Internet, and I guess I mainly did it to see what it was like. Since that person seemed to have ignored the rest of the conversation in terms of direction, intent, and atmosphere, I think it petered off a bit after that.

Still, I'm looking forward to next weekend's IRC debate between the various Debian Project Leader candidates, lots of fun issues that've come up, and plenty of different approaches to them.

Since I had the big gap in this blog from mid-January, I still haven't written anything about my Queensland trip, or... well, nothing else I did comes to mind. I bought World Of Warcraft a few weeks ago, but only had time to play it for a week so far. Apart from that, boring boring boring. If I could make time for something interesting, I'd blog about it. ^_^

Oh yeah, and I signed myself up as an AmazonJP affiliate, so I can put links to products there and if you click them, I get a percentage towards a gift voucher. ^_^ So if and when I talk about things from AmazonJP, I'll put links. I've added a link to PGSM Vol.12 yesterday where I mentioned collecting it from DHL as a test.

2005年 1月 17日

Eaten Today: 2005年1月17日

Posted in Food Diary, General at 10:51 pm by TBBle (Visited 480 times)

An apple
A nectarine
Yaki chicken bento w/Mung Bean from Mirimar's Delight
Two prawn ball skewers, two octopus ball skewers and six gyoza
600ml Diet Coke. (Yeah, I know. I haven't had any since Thursday though)
A plum
A kiwifruit
Miniwheats + puffed amaranth w/ soy milk. (This seems to have given me hiccups)
A banana
Raspberry swirl soy icecream
Four pieces of toast w/honey
Glass of cordial (weak. This stuff's pretty strong. Diet Apple/Raspberry flavour. I don't think I'll buy any more after I finish this one)

2005年 1月 16日

Eaten today: 2005年1月16日

Posted in Food Diary, General at 8:59 pm by TBBle (Visited 449 times)

(Today doesn't actually count, I start as of tomorrow. ^_^)
Six rosemary and garlic sausages
A Plum
An apple
The sweet potato and baby leaf thing. (Not very nice. >_<)

TBBle diets, again

Posted in Food Diary, General at 4:27 pm by TBBle (Visited 494 times)

This month's fad diet: The Great Australian Diet: The Atkins Alternative by Dr John Tickell.

It seems to be rougly based on the idea that Okinawan people seem to live longer and healthier, and then goes off into some kind of whackiness about eating lots of plant foods. Anyway, I'm gonna give it a shot.

The basic idea is that you eat a little bit of fifteen different types of plant foods every day, and every meal should be two-thirds or more plant foods. Having been weighing up vegetarianism as a way to make myself eat more vegetables anyway, why not? He reckons you only need meat every three days or so.

He has this scale, "HI" for Human Interference, which is based on the idea that the less adulterated the food between germination and consumption, the better.

It also involves 100 minutes a week of walking.

Since I plan to start tomorrow, I went down to the supermarket today and bought the following:

  • Sweet Potato and Baby Leaf w/ Fetta. (Prolly gonna chuck the fetta, will eventually migrate to buying a lettuce, a sweet potato and some balsamic vinegar, but one step at a time.)
  • Multi-grain bread. (I don't know enough about bread to know if this is better or worse HI than wholemeal, but I figure it is)
  • Soy margaine (for jacket potatoes)
  • Farm eggs (I've been buying the woolworths ones until now, but it turns out their cage eggs. >_<)
  • Soy yogurts
  • Hi-Cal+ Soy Milk
  • Some continental sausages (Gotta have some meat)
  • An avocado
  • Potatoes
  • Kiwifruit
  • Plums
  • Nectarines
  • Oranges
  • Apples
  • Bananas

That's 11 plant things + the one remaining coleslaw in my fridge (cabbage + carrot) and some frozen vegetables (Three things, hopefully two that don't overlap) means I can do the 15 thing without having to slice/dice and otherwise prepare. ^_^

2004年 10月 21日

A week of eating, on reflection

Posted in Food Diary at 7:26 pm by TBBle (Visited 318 times)

Friday 15th October 2004
I slept in, so breakfast was a piece of caramel slice and 300ml Diet coke from Joe's cafe.
Lunch was jumbo Kingsley's chips, breast fillet burger with chilli sauce, gravy sub and two croquettes + 600ml Diet Coke
Dinner was some lamb steaks or something
Saturday 16th October 2004
Lunch, I have no idea... The steaks from Friday may have been here instead
Dinner was Pizza and booze. ^_^
Sunday 17th October 2004
Again, no idea.
Monday 18th October 2004
Breakfast was Laksa w/out noodles
Dinner.. Forgotten again
Tuesday 19th October 2004
Breakfast was two subs from Subway
Dinner was Opporto's and Sunkist and Diet Coke. (Also saw Donnie Darko Director's Cut. That was good. ^_^)
Wednesday 20th October 2004
Breakfast was subs from the airport servo.
Dinner was Sizzle Bento. ^_^
Thursday 21st October 2004
Breakfast was subs frmo airport servo again
Dinner was two subs from Subway. Diet Coke a hoi hoi today.

2004年 10月 14日

Thursday October 14th 2004

Posted in Food Diary at 10:40 pm by TBBle (Visited 305 times)

Very late brunch: Combo Large from Sizzle Bento + random sushitrain stuff + Raspberry Crush from Boost Juice + Wheatgrass shot.

Saw Dr Turtle today, got my vital statistics measured:
134kg, 41 BMI.
133cm Waist
133cm Hips

Dinner: Another of those blocks of chocolate... Yeah, I know. But I'm out of food that I can be bothered cooking.

Breakfast tomorrow is courtesy of Joeseph Maatouk, and lunch will be in Civic or Braddon, and dinner... I dunno, but going shopping tomorrow night, so there'll be food a hoihoi. ^_^

Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th October 2004

Posted in Food Diary at 1:27 pm by TBBle (Visited 416 times)

Tuesday was Servo hero sandwiches for breakfast, macdonalds for lunch, and calamari rings for dinner.
Wednesday was Laksa for breakfast, and sausages for dinner.
Yeah, I know. I got busy. >_<

2004年 10月 12日

Monday 11th October 2004

Posted in Food Diary at 1:05 am by TBBle (Visited 297 times)

Breakfast: Little steak things on the barbecue

Lunch: Kingsley's Breast Fillet Burger w/ chilli sauce and a gravy sub and three croquettes and a 600ml diet coke.

Also had a Raspberry Crush and Wheatgrass shot from Boost Juice.

Dinner: Chicken Medallions in the gorilla. ^_^
500g of Calamari rings w/ light Tartae sauce
half a block of chocolate. (Cadbury Old Gold w/peppermint chips)

2004年 10月 11日

Sunday 10th October 2004

Posted in Food Diary at 12:15 am by TBBle (Visited 303 times)

Breakfast/Lunch: Seafood basket from Red Fish + Chicken Fillet Burger w/Chilli sauce + Gravy Sub from Kingsleys, and 300ml Diet Coke
Dinner: 6 Woolworth's Chicken Kebabs. (I have no idea what flavour) and some frozen veggies. Also some cans of Lift, and some Diet Coke dregs.
Dessert: Block of mint-slice chocolate, more diet coke. ^_^

2004年 10月 9日

Saturday 9th October 2004

Posted in Food Diary at 11:18 pm by TBBle (Visited 292 times)

Breakfast: Jumbo chips + gravy from Kingsley's + 600ml Diet Coke. (Technically lunchtime. I slept in and the barbecue was out of gas)
Dinner: Kingsley's fillet burger with chilli sauce and gravy + gravy sub. More diet coke. ^_^

2004年 10月 8日

Thursday October 7th 2004

Posted in Food Diary at 11:29 am by TBBle (Visited 286 times)

Breakfast: Four little steak things. Can't remember what meat. Barbecued.
1.25l diet coke over the day
Lunch: Laksa w/vegetables instead of noodles, roti and spring rolls a hoi hoi + 600ml Diet Coke
Dinner: McChicken, McChilliBurger and BigMac, without cheest. Bag of skittles and 750ml water.

2004年 10月 7日

Wednesday October 6th 2004

Posted in Food Diary at 1:18 am by TBBle (Visited 285 times)

Breakfast: (middayish...) Three pork loin steaks, two fried eggs, on the barbecue.
Lunch, 3pmish: One block Cadbury Old Gold Peppermint Chip chocolate
Dinner, 8pmish: One package beef and honey sausages. Barbecue again. Dregs of tomatoe sauce too.

2004年 10月 5日

Tuesday October 5th 2004

Posted in Food Diary at 9:35 am by TBBle (Visited 296 times)

Breakfast:
Two chicken kebabs from last night, microwaved.
Dregs of the two litre bottle of Diet Coke I've been working through this weekend. ^_^

Lunch (3:20pm): Kingsley's Fillet burger with chilli sauce, 2 croquettes, jumbo chips + gravy + 600ml Diet Coke

Later on (7pmish): Kingsley's gravy sub + 300ml can Lift

Dinner (10pmish): Oportos Big Bondi meal + Rappa + 600ml sunkist bottle