PolarLava::Blog

Well, if it's not a joke it should be.  Apparently out in socially progressive Salt Lake City, UT there's a group that calls itself the "Citizens for Decent Public Attire" (CDPA) that wants to ban bicycle short.  And from this article it appears there is legislation pending to do just that.  Spare me.  Maybe if these slugs actually got on a bike and rode further than to the coroner coffee shop they might actually see the point in bike shorts.  The're a functional requirement if you're going to ride more than a couple of casual miles folks.  And if you find them offensive, look the other way.  They're not terribly revealing and if anything look pretty goofy when you're not on a bike.  Thus the ones who should be concerned would be those who need to ride more and spend less time eating doughnuts.

SO CDPA, why don't you refocus your outrage on truly indecent revealing clothing if you're really that concerned.  You people really need to get a life.  Hey, maybe you need a vacation…come on out to New York.  You do know it's legal for women to go topless here, right?  gasp

Oh, and if you're concern about the way they ride, changing their short isn't going to make them more responsible riders.  I would think that should be obvious, but clearly you're not the sharpest pencil in the box.

This is sort of quick two for one entry…

I ran across this very interesting If You Knew Sushi article a couple of days ago.  If you have anything more than a casual interest in sushi you'll likely find this to be a very interesting (and very long) article.  And from the article, it makes me really want a copy of The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy…you should buy this for me…and/or something else from my Amazon Wish List.  ;)

And on a sushi related note, my wife and I went to dinner last weekend at the very good Japanese restaurant Wasabi in Williamsville.  Prices are reasonable and the food was fantastic.  Check it out if you're in the mood.

So as you've likely seem over the past several weeks, I had been using Twitter quite a bit since signing up.  And one of the things I did in conjunction with that was write a little script to archive my Twittering to my blog.  Unfortunately, that's all that has been on my blog of late.  I've been rather busy with work, home and riding my bike like crazy.  Thus I've not been spending much time blogging.  What time I've had has been spent working on fixing various things as well as a recent and fairly urgent bug fix for MyClient.

So now what?  Well, I'm going to try to get back to the blogging a bit.  Honestly though, with the weather being wonderful right now, I prefer to spend as much time outside as I can.  But to alleviate Twitter from killing my blog any further, I've rewritten the archive script such that it will now (hopefully) archive things a week at a time.  And if still is too much, I'll back it off to a month.  And if at that point I still don't like the percentage of Twitter posts, I'll likely kill it.

MyClient V3.1.4 has been released.  This is strictly a bug fix release so you only need to update your files.  There are no configuration changes to be made.

Enhancements

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• Saving queries or query results via download includes the interface HTML after the data.

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I've made a few display changes to the CycleLog  Calendar.  A while back I had update the summary displays to colorize the results and adjusted the fonts.  I've now done similarly to the calendar which was kind in a rather confusing and sad state.  I've updated the font, added the ride location (Indoor/Outdoor), colorize the text based on that and changed the entry and summary background colors.

So this much needed improvement seems reasonable for now, but I may need to tweak it a bit in the coming days.  Another item I will likely need to address is entries for "today".  Right now I'm guessing those might still be a bit wacky.  I need to wait until I have a ride and time to fix the display for today though.  Otherwise it's just a guessing game.