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”.
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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.
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On top of Eagle Rock http://tweetphoto.com/34961384 [ericblue]
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Hiked close to 10 miles …
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RT @ShekhinahShaman: If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to …
Shared Simple forms with Spring MVC 2.5 « JTeam Blog / JTeam: Enterprise Java, Open Source, software solutions, Amsterdam.
Shared Chapter 14. View technologies.
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RT @philo_quotes: By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas || "That’s what she said" [ericblue]
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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.
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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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