February 18th, 2008 Piers
Ok, this is more of an ego stroking post than anything else. I just wanted to say that I’m very impressed with myself for going to the gym 3 times in the past 7 days. I think that 3 times a week is enough at the moment and with the other things that I do should keep me busy. I’m tempted to go at a weekend too, but not sure when, as I go on both Friday and Monday and I don’t really want to hurt myself. Maybe Saturday afternoon would be a good time, as I’m generally quite bored whilst Emma’s at work. I’ll try going this Saturday and see how I feel.
I’ve also got a two week “check” with one of the guys from the gym, so I get to find out how much weight I’ve lost (I don’t trust the scales at home!)
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February 11th, 2008 Piers
I think I say this every so often, but this week I’m definately going to make a concerted effort to start on this project that I’ve been wanting to do for ages. It’s going to be quite a major undertaking as it’s going to involve a few web services. I was thinking about doing it in RoR but I think I’m going to stick with what I know best (i.e. PHP).
I’ve had a database schema in my head now for a while, so I need to get that into a database (or at least the first implementation of it) and then actually start working on the site. There’s going to be a fair bit going on in the background as well, since there’s quite a lot of stuff like video encoding (which is where the web services will come in as I plan to use AWS to do a lot of the hardcore stuff). But that will come later.
The thing that bothers me is that the site is very heavily based on User Generated Content (seems to be a bit of a buzzword at the moment), but it’s content that I can’t put together myself. Don’t want to give too much away at this point, but it involves music and unsigned bands. Now, I’m not a band, so I can’t put stuff up. If anyone has any thoughts about how best to do this, then please please let me know.
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February 6th, 2008 Piers
Yup, today is my second session at the gym. Last week I had a check up which said I was overweight (but not obese woot!) which was not unexpected (I am a little on the podgy front). I have to admit I’m quite looking forward to starting to work out again. Lets hope that I can keep this going this time. I’m doing some Bupa scheme which says that I’m supposed to go at least twice a week. Since I have to walk past the gym on my way to and from work, I’m constantly reminded that I should be going and Godalming’s not exactly far from Guildford so weekends aren’t out of the question.
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