Monthly Archives: July 2007

Devil went down to Dover

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Nathan Powell

I drove down to John’s this morning to do the HH10K W2D7 workout with him. It was a 3.5 mile run. I suppose I should stop mentioning it, since it is the middle of July, but man that Sun was … Continue reading →

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Spirit of Gettysburg 5K race report

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Today was the Spirit of Gettysburg 5K. John and I met up in Gettysburg to tackle, what turned out to be, one of most fun races I have ever participated in. There were 1400 participants (including the fun run, kid … Continue reading →

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HH10K W2D4

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Running 2 miles? Eh, that’s for chumps. Just kidding, but seriously, I ran two miles tonight and by the time I was nice and warmed up and in a groove, it was over. Time to go home. I didn’t do … Continue reading →

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rmagick and Ubuntu

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Nathan Powell

If you want to install the Ruby Gem rmagick you have to have the libmagick development files installed for the gem to compile. If not, you’ll get this error: configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program. … Continue reading →

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Out of control

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Nathan Powell

I have 75 feeds in my bloglines reader. That is just nuts. Information overload. Ok, I am getting rid of some. and here they are in no particular order: Cool Tools Interesting, not valuable. CNN I use the BBC news … Continue reading →

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social networking and the ex smoker

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Nathan Powell

I should write a web 2 point OMG app that brings together people who are either actively quitting smoking, thinking about quitting smoking or are maintaining a quit. According to this article, in 2001, approximately 22.8% of U.S. adults were … Continue reading →

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HH10K W2D3

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Day 3, that can only mean one thing. Cross-training. And that can only mean one thing. Sore ass. It’s actually getting better, I think my butt has resigned itself to the idea that I am too cheap to get a … Continue reading →

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I think I just saw the devil himself

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Nathan Powell

HH10K W2D2. My workout tonight consisted of a .5 mile walk, a 2.5 mile run and a 3 mile walk. It was so hot, I think I saw the devil out there. Only the 2.5 mile run was required by … Continue reading →

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Interesting chantix article on Yahoo News

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Nathan Powell

Fascinating.

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Day 7 no smoking

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Nathan Powell

For some reason today was a little harder than things had been going. It wasn’t crazy hard, but I was caught a little off guard by some urges to smoke throughout the day. I must confess, I did have a … Continue reading →

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