On Saturday I stopped by the Apple store and picked up an UP device by Jawbone. The UP is a wristband and iPhone app that will track your fitness and sleep activity and help encourage you to live a more active life style. As with most of my Quantified Self gadets (Fitbit, Zeo, Withings, Neurosky, etc.) my first reaction was to “free my data”. Similar to my initial journey with the Fitbit, I was inspired to find an “unofficial” way to get access to the data.
Read the full story »Increasing number of articles dealing with philosophy and psychology. Topics include Integral philosophy, consciousness, and age old advice on how to live “the good life”.
Learn tips and tricks on GTD (Getting Things Done), goal setting, time management, and increasing your personal power.
Put mind mapping to use in your personal and professional life. Learn tips and techniques on enhancing creativity, accelerating learning, and increasing productivity.
My latest discoveries on personal knowledge management. Discover what PKM is all about, learn about the Semantic Web, and find out how to use Wikis to help track all of your important information.
Quantified Self is a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking. There are number of posts on my device “hacking”, open source development, and my own quantified experiments.
OK, I think my hike is calling… pain trying to port an older Spring 1.x app to 3.x [ericblue]
The Getty http://tweetphoto.com/29551974 [ericblue]
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Last month I announced a new “hacking” project – creating a Perl API for my FitBit device. Traditionally, whenever I host one of my projects I usually include both the project page and source code …
Shared Radius Around a Point on a Map.
Shared Find ZIP Codes Inside a Radius.
Posted Weekly Lifestream for …
Tinkering with too many languages: Java, Perl, PHP and now Ruby… can’t keep up [ericblue]
Wouldn’t it be so much more fun if everybody …
Posted Weekly Lifestream for June 6th.
Shared Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price – NYTimes.com.
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Posted Weekly Lifestream for May 30th.
Had a great time in San Diego this weekend. Stayed at the Hotel del Coronado http://hoteldel.com/ [ericblue]
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Posted Weekly Lifestream for May 23rd.
Shared flow.io: Lean project management based on kanban.
Shared GroundWork Community Support • …
Posted Weekly Lifestream for May 16th.
Automatic orientation switch on iPad automagically fixed itself last night… after cleaning my screen?? go figure [ericblue]
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Posted Weekly Lifestream for May 9th.
Was planning on eating healthy today, then Rubios ‘presented itself’…. tomorrow is another day [ericblue]
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Shared Docky – GNOME Do Wiki.
Posted Weekly Lifestream for May 2nd.
Shared Five Best Password Managers – Password …