I'm beginning a complete commitment to health - focusing on the fundamentals:

• eat right
• drink plenty of water
• go to bed on time
• exercise routinely

We all know the fundamentals. What I'm learning for the first time is how heart rate monitoring can be an effective tool in measuring your current health, your progress toward improved health and your exercise intensity. I'm pretty relaxed here at the keyboard.... my pulse is 48 bpm.

Warning: technical discussion follows.

Synopsis: I'm upgrading the Rundlett.com website.

Don't get in a wrestling match
on the kitchen floor
with your seven-yr-old
after your friends
and the white dog visited
wearing black plastic fleece

Or, actually you should
and have fun tickling
those memories
last longer than
the time to pick lint
or learn to like dog-hair

Now that Barack Obama has been elected to the White House, I can breathe a giant sigh of relief. I feel true optimism and hope for this country, and our children.

So, Gabe's Halloween costume this year is a skeleton, drawn in white dimensional fabric paint [1] on black clothing. It's coming out great. Wikipedia supplies the artistic inspiration for the authentic skeletal design.

Front http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Human_skeleton_front....
Back http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Human_skeleton_back.s...

[1] http://duncancrafts.com Tulip paints available at WalMart

See the video of Max and Gabe in their halloween costumes:

When you're going to make a full day out of going to a Patriots Football game, you might want to let someone else do the cooking instead of trying to play with fire in the parking lot.

I was surprised that Google's map didn't show much information when searching for places to eat in the vicinity, so I created a map of places to eat around Gillette Stadium.

Linux is taking the ultra-portable market by storm with releases like the Everex Eee PC or Cloudbook, in part because they run free operating systems and cost $400 instead of $1800 for the Macbook Air. Still, for my money, I'd buy an older IBM Thinkpad X31 which I just saw on Ebay for $280 and get a full-size keyboard. But regardless of what form-factor and notebooks are the best buy, the real story in portable computing is the story of Portable Apps.