Shadow's Workshop

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As i already mentioned yesterday, today was the big day. The first day at a new fitness club.

I woke up bright and early at 7:30 AM(had to go to bad at 10PM in order to be able to do this) and at 8AM i was ready to leave, so i could meet up with gyzmo at 8:30 in front of the club.

Then i got an sms, from Henrich, it looked like he forget his keys to the office, i offered to go there and bring him my keys, luck had it that Gyzmo also had a pair so when he called me, i filled him in and we promptly decided to meet at the office and then go to the club.

After signing a one year contract, we got ready to do some heavy lifting. So we did the normal warm up routines then we got on a treadmill. It was a first for me, i don't know about Gyzmo, I've never been on one and it was a strange feeling. I keep thinking I'll fall off.

Of course the first thing i did, was to set the speed so that i could run. While i was running i felt like i was jumping up and down and the "earth" kept moving. After a while the machine displays a scrolling message:
"Reduce speed to lower your heart rate"
I was like, yeah what ever you say. According to the machine my heart rate was 189, now i don't know if that is a lot or a normal value, but i did not care it felt good so i kept running.

Then the guy next to me, was like: "You should slow down, the machine keeps flashing that message", so what could i do? Set the machine to walking speed of course.

The most interesting thing about a treadmill is that when you get off, everything stops and your head hurts. After the experience with the treadmill, i tried some other machines, like a bike and some other torture devices.I got tired of it all pretty soon and starting thinking about how hard it will be to find an image for this post. We originally planned to work out 2 hours but that quickly turned into half an hour for me and a full hour for Gyzmo. He was pumping away while i was make jokes and walking around trying to get some feeling back into my legs.

All in all, it was fun, we'll do it tomorrow too, but this time with a trainer

A good friend of mine just recently launched a new site, where you can find avatars.
Avatar24.ro

Unlike other avatar websites this one allows you to atually create new avatars starting from an existent one, by layering hearts and other little interesting things on top of it.

The motto of the website is: "a new avatar every hour", and it delivers on this promise the collection of interesting and unique avatars grows every hour.

So go and check it out.

Interestingly enough, sometimes I find the bests things will searching for something completely different, like one winter while i was looking for my scarf i found my swimming trunks and in the summer i found the gloves and scarf while searching for my...yes you guessed it.

This little movie above is just a trailer go check out the rest at Drawn By Pain it's really worth it, really cool stuff.

Back in the early days of Opera 9, i was very excited about one feature in particular,widgets. I was so excited that I imediatly signed-up to my Opera just so that i could submit one.

In those days i was very eager to created widgets and test out all the things it could offer. I never got past 2 small widgets, because the biggest widget i was working on at that time turned out to rely on a bug which allowed access to the file system.

As soon as i had my prototype done, Opera pushed out a new version and i was left hanging. I tried to use signed java applets but it turned out that didn't work at all, so eventually i gave up completly on widgets.

Fast forward to this morning, when Opera published an article on Dev.Opera entitled File I/O API which describes a new mechanism to read,write files with a widget. It's an interesting read maybe i'll try it out on the new beta.