Tuesday Workout

Only cardio today, and a lighter workout.

Cardio: Elliptical

Time = 135 minutes (2 hrs 15 minutes)

Distance = 11.63 miles

Calories burnt = 1,322

Monday Workout

Cardio: Elliptical

Time = 135 minutes (2 hrs 15 minutes)

Distance = 13.02 miles

Calories burnt = 1,518

Weights:

Biceps: 3 exercises of 4 sets each, for a total of 12 sets

Triceps: 3 exercises of 4 sets each, for a total of 12 sets

So a total of 24 sets, for arms

Sunday Workout

Only weights today, as I didn't have enough time in between Sunday activities.

Back:  4 exercises of 4 sets each, for a total of 16 sets

Calves: 3 exercises of 3 sets each, for a total of 9 sets

Bushism Of The Week

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
CBS News, Washington DC, 6 September, 2006

 

Ain't that the truth.

You know you have it wrong when....

A link to the last Bushism Of The Week

Friday Workout

Regular crunches: 5 sets, 20 crunches each, plus one set of 15 crunches = 115 crunches

Left-twist crunches: 5 sets, 20 crunches each = 100 crunches

Right-twist crunches: 5 sets, 20 crunches each = 100 crunches

Total crunches = 315

Cardio: Elliptical

Time = 125 minutes (2 hrs 5 minutes)

Distance = 12.08 miles

Calories burnt = 1,410

Weights:

Shoulders: 4 exercises of 4 sets each, for a total of 16 sets

Tuesday Workout

I'm back to blogging about my workouts.  This Tuesday:

Started with abs:

Regular crunches: 5 sets, 20 crunches each = 100 crunches

Left-twist crunches: 5 sets, 20 crunches each = 100 crunches

Right-twist crunches: 5 sets, 20 crunches each = 100 crunches

Total crunches = 300

Cardio: Elliptical

Time = 90 minutes (1 hr 30 minutes)

Distance = 7.95 miles

Calories burnt = 910

Weights:

Biceps: 3 exercises of 3 sets each, for a total of 9 sets

Triceps: 3 exercises of 3 sets each, for a total of 9 sets

Bushism Of The Week

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."
Washington DC, 27 October, 2003

A link to the last Bushism Of The Week

New York Times Article On Kosmix

Our little startup, Kosmix, was just covered in the New York times 

The article was titled Just Don’t Compare Kosmix to Google

Published: March 14, 2009

KOSMIX, a well-financed Silicon Valley start-up, is often described on blogs and news sites as a search engine that may someday rival Google.

As flattering as that notion may sound, it rankles Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, the co-founders of Kosmix. And that’s not because other start-ups making similar assertions have fallen laughably short of the mark. It’s because Kosmix is trying to do something that is quite different from traditional Web search.

“Search does what it does well, very well,” Mr. Harinarayan said. “I don’t think we can ever compete with that.” Kosmix, he said, is not about finding the best set of documents for a specific keyword or phrase. Instead, its goal is to “tell me more about something,” he said.

For a key word or topic that a user enters, Kosmix gathers content from across the Web to build a sort of multimedia encyclopedia entry on the fly. For many queries, the results are pretty satisfying and look as if they have been compiled by a human editor, not a computer.

If Kosmix succeeds in attracting a large following, it may well be the latest challenge, not to Google, but to a long string of old and new media companies struggling to hold on to their audiences and make a living on the Web.

Kosmix’s home page offers a mix of news, entertainment and other content from around the Web. But it is on searches that Kosmix becomes really interesting.

Type in “Kauai,” for example, and Kosmix will return a fairly rich page that includes an entry from WikiTravel, a user-created travel site; restaurant recommendations from The New York Times; photographs and videos from services like Flickr and YouTube; audio clips of local music; reviews of guidebooks, bed-and-breakfasts and other services; blog posts and more. It also has top results from Google, and suggests a list of related topics.

(Read the rest of the article on the New York Times website)

Bushism Of The Week

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.''
Townsend, Tennessee, 21 February, 2001

 

But not you, G-dub, not you.

A link to the last Bushism Of The Week