Nollningsdans i Uppsala

Posted: September 2nd, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: misc | Tags: | No Comments »

Idag var det nollningsdans på Forumtorget i Uppsala. Såg ganska bra ut faktiskt!

Sorry för den taskiga kvaliten. En kombination av jag som inte vet hur man använder iMovie och youtubes hårda komprimering.


Rails 3.0: It’s ready!

Posted: August 31st, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: rails | Tags: | No Comments »

“Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful.”

Riding Rails: Rails 3.0: It’s ready!


Comhem acting up again

Posted: August 30th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: internet | Tags: , | No Comments »

Pinging www.google.se (74.125.79.99) a few minutes ago gave the following horrifying result.

420 packets transmitted, 323 packets received, 23.1% packet loss

They better start getting their shit together soon.

Update

Not any better today

1629 packets transmitted, 1274 packets received, 21.8% packet loss

Update

After complaining on twitter comHemAB replied, checked and confirmed that there had been a problem in my area, that it looked better now but they still filed an internal issue to look for the root cause.

Comhem is getting better at customer service!


Flottsund-Lunsentorpet-Fläktanstugan 13 km

Posted: August 30th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: running | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »

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Open in Google Earth

Yesterday I went for a bit of trail running south of Uppsala.

I ran on the easy to follow (orange markings on the trees) Upplandsleden from Flottsund via Lunsentorpet to Fläktanstugan and back. Made for a total of 13 km of running on a pretty decent trail with lots of tree roots in the wonderful Lunsen forest.

Hopefully I can get hold of a map so I can go for a more circular route next time.


Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22

Posted: August 22nd, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: internet | Tags: , | No Comments »
  • compile -> fail -> correct -> compile -> fail -> correct -> compile -> file. Oh what a fun day! #

Feeling less tired

Posted: August 20th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: misc | Tags: | No Comments »

Maybe I have finally rested enough after the 22k run last Sunday. I’ve felt tired and totally unmotivated to workout all week but this afternoon was a lovely sunny late summer day and I wanted to go for a run but unfortunately there was no time today.


Spotify Premium

Posted: August 18th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: misc | Tags: | No Comments »

I finally updated to Spotify Premium! Mostly I did it so that I can bring the music and playlists with me when I go running as I just can’t be bothered with buying/downloading mp3 files anymore. That feels so 2009!


Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15

Posted: August 15th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: internet | Tags: , | No Comments »
  • Regn regn regn regn regn regn #svpt #
  • Försöker undvika myggen i sovrummet #svpt #

id Software Demos Rage On iPhone

Posted: August 13th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: programming | Tags: | No Comments »

Slashdot Games Story | id Software Demos Rage On iPhone, Releases Source Code For Two Games

“Kotaku has posted their liveblog of the QuakeCon 2010 keynote, with some big announcements by game developer and Slashdot regular John Carmack. Highlights include a video of the id Tech 5 engine (aka Rage) running on the iPhone 4G at 60fps, with claims that it also runs on the iPhone 3GS.

Another hilarious quote from John Carmack was

“The game would have been more enjoyable if people could actually see it.” – Carmack on Doom 3

If you are interested read through the liveblog from the QuakeCon 2010 keynote. Carmack sure has some strong opinions sometimes!


Creating advanced workouts for your Garmin Forerunner

Posted: August 12th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: running | Tags: , | No Comments »

I finally got tired of having the clock continuously complain about too low pulse during the beginning of my heart rate zone based runs.

The beeping usually made me run faster than I wanted from the start just to get to the correct zone instead of doing a proper warm-up. As I have asthma, the warm-up is critical for me so I had to get rid of this bad behavior.

The solution is to create an advanced workout. Don’t worry, it’s much easier than it sounds. However, it requires a program on your computer as the clock does not support the creation of advanced workouts. For this you need to use the Garmin Training Center program.

Download Garmin Training Center here.

Once installed you just do “New Workout” and create the steps you want in your workout. For my distance runs I have a five minutes slow warm-up as the first step, the actual distance running as the second step, and a slow five minutes cool down in the end.

See the screenshot below.

Garmin Training Center

I had to enter the heart rate range manually because for some reason I didn’t get Garmin Training Center’s heart rate zones to match the ones in the clock, and I’m not sure what the result would be if I used them.

Today I created a Fartlek workout which I did this evening. It ended up being pretty much as exhausting as I thought it would be, but that’s just good!

The fartlek workout uses the repeat function where steps 2 and 3 are repeated 4 times.

Garmin Training Center 2

When you’re done creating workouts just do “Send to Device” and the next time you start Garmin ANT Agent and sync with the clock the workouts will be transferred.

Notice that when using Advanced Workouts the auto-lap function is disabled. So you cannot get the time per km during the session or when viewing the session on the computer afterwards.

Happy running!