Matt's News / Blog http://www.wissman.org Matt's home on the Internet. Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:10:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Shamrock Shuffle 2009 http://www.wissman.org/?p=413 http://www.wissman.org/?p=413#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:10:47 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=413 On Saturday, I really wasn’t looking forward to running the Shamrock Shuffle because of the snow in the forecast. Sunday morning it was snowing pretty hard. While driving into Chicago, we couldn’t see the buildings — good thing we know where things are! After freezing in the starting corrals for 15-20 minutes the race started.

The first mile was the most painful but it was better once I warmed up. Over all the course was wet and slushy since it was about 34 deg and snowing.

I was happy with my time - 47:38. I was also very wet and tired at the end — here are some photos.

Alisse was there, too. She stood on the sidelines in 6″ of standing freezing water. I don’t know if she’ll come again. :)

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  • Got my new running shoes yesterday. Time to break them in! #
  • Why does coffee taste so good after a good workout? #
  • Had a great time downtown bowling and hanging out for Scott Potter’s birthday. #

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  • I really like Orb for streaming music from my home PC. http://www.orb.com. #
  • What kind of blog - micro-blog (ie Twitter) integration do you like? #

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  • my legs are still sore from doing lunges on Tuesday — made it hard to run this morning. #

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  • is happy that my work laptop now has 3 gigs of RAM. #

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  • @alissewissman I’m jealous of chipotle for lunch… in reply to alissewissman #
  • Had Portillo’s for lunch :). And it was free! #
  • Started reading “Refactoring to Patterns” looks really good! #

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    ]]>     http://www.wissman.org/?feed=rss2&p=401     Enjoying Podcasts http://www.wissman.org/?p=399 http://www.wissman.org/?p=399#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:53:19 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=399 I know podcasting has been around for a few years now, but I haven’t really listened to any. Now, with my recent goal of running a half marathon, combined with a new set of head phones (that stay on while running) given to me for Christmas and an armband acquired from a liquidating chain technology store I am able to listen to podcasts. Right now, my favorite is Wait Wait Don’t Tell me.

    Does anyone have any suggested Podcasts?

    ]]>     http://www.wissman.org/?feed=rss2&p=399     Registered - Half Marathon http://www.wissman.org/?p=394 http://www.wissman.org/?p=394#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:15:57 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=394 It’s official! I’m registered for the Chicago Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon. It’s August 2nd, so I have about 8 months to train. I better stop hitting the snooze button :/

    ]]>     http://www.wissman.org/?feed=rss2&p=394     MSDN Dev Con http://www.wissman.org/?p=391 http://www.wissman.org/?p=391#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:13:00 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=391 Today I went downtown Chicago for the MSDN Developers Conference. I had a good time and learned some things. I was a little disappointed with the keynote. It was mainly about Cloud Computing and Windows Azure. I guess my main concern would be trusting Microsoft with your App and Data. I suppose it would be good for some situations.

    C# 4.0 has some interesting features. I’m not really that super excited about optional parameters and dynamic types. Dynamic typing in C# makes it feel like JavaScript… shudder…

    Silverlight 3.0 looks very nice. There are some nice things like built in navigation, authentication and validation. All things very noticeably missing from 2.0.

    Finally, I liked the F# presentation (except it was more about why instead of how). I think it definitely has it’s place and I’d like to learn more about it. If it’s anything like Haskell I’ll enjoy it.

    ]]>     http://www.wissman.org/?feed=rss2&p=391     Resolution Progress http://www.wissman.org/?p=390 http://www.wissman.org/?p=390#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:33:46 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=390 So this week wasn’t that great for my new years resolutions, mainly resolution #5. Since I kept pressing the snooze alarm, I didn’t achieve resolution #1, which could impact resolution #2.

    The new fitness center at our apartment complex opened up this week. Hopefully, this will help resolution #1. It should be noted that they said it would be open this summer (yes, that’s was 5-6 months ago…)

    ]]>     http://www.wissman.org/?feed=rss2&p=390     2009 New Year Resolutions http://www.wissman.org/?p=388 http://www.wissman.org/?p=388#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:42:44 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=388 I don’t usually make resolutions, but here are a couple things I’d like to accomplish:

    I think that’s it!

    ]]>     http://www.wissman.org/?feed=rss2&p=388     New Server http://www.wissman.org/?p=386 http://www.wissman.org/?p=386#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:40:20 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=386 I’ve move servers and upgraded Wordpress — all at once. I’m now using Ubiquity Hosts. I switched because I was getting tiered of maintaining a VPS. My new account had CPanel, which makes configuration very easy. I also have a reseller account, so I can create and sell my own hosting packages.

    I also installed IntenseDebatefor commenting. Hopefully, people (you) like it… Any other useful plugins I should install?

    Anyway, my site has now been moved.

    ]]>     http://www.wissman.org/?feed=rss2&p=386     Twitter http://www.wissman.org/?p=385 http://www.wissman.org/?p=385#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:35:34 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=385 I joined Twitter today. My profile like is: https://twitter.com/mwissman

    ]]>     http://www.wissman.org/?feed=rss2&p=385     Wedding Photos Online http://www.wissman.org/?p=384 http://www.wissman.org/?p=384#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:23:18 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=384 Our proofs from the photographer are online here: http://essencewedding.morephotos.com/mp_client/pictures_welcome.asp?categories=no&keywords2=no&eventid=39254

    Kate and Peter (Alisse’s Aunt and Uncle) took some great photos (http://gallery.mac.com/pparadise#100574&bgcolor=black&view=grid)

    Bryan also took some good photos (http://www.bryanpsmith.com/2008/10/24/matthew-and-allisses-wedding-1/)

    If you have access to Facebook, there are many more posted by others.

    ]]>     http://www.wissman.org/?feed=rss2&p=384     Quick Update http://www.wissman.org/?p=383 http://www.wissman.org/?p=383#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:04:57 +0000 Matt http://www.wissman.org/?p=383 I’m married!

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