Ethan Johnson: “There’s your hip tip for the day: If you wonder if the exercising and healthy eating is paying off really, when you see the same old you in the mirror every day, find something that physically represents the weight you lost. Even a bottle of soda is roughly 16oz (1 lb). That’s one less pound you’re carrying. It all adds up, just not miraculously overnight, no matter what load of hooey is being sold on late-night TV these days.”

Vosges Haut-Chocolat: “Deep milk chocolate coats your mouth and leads to the crunch of smoked bacon pieces. Surprise your mouth with the smoked salt and sweet milk chocolate combination.”

We bought a [dining room table at an auction](http://www.tammykirks.com/archives/381) a few weeks ago and it’s high time we moved the old out of our living room. Here’s a picture:

It’s made of rubber tree wood (also called [parawood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parawood)) and finished in a color similar to honey. It includes six chairs that are recovered in a pale green contemporary patterned fabric:

It came from JC Penny about 8 years ago and we’ve been really happy with it. It’s held up to a variety of uses with not much complaint. There’s one flaw:

That ring is about the size of the bottom of a wine bottle.

We’re selling the set for $450 plus actual shipping costs to your site. The table and chairs can be broken down for shipping or you can arrange for local pickup.

Giant Moose: “Meet your new favorite programming language, LOLCODE:”

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
	UP VAR!!1
	VISIBLE VAR
	IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

[David Gewirtz:](http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frontierkernel/message/3199) “I’m pleased to announce the completion of the native MySQL client within Frontier, for Windows. Frontier already supports limited MySQL access through the ODBC DLL. This new native MySQL client within Frontier is unrelated to that DLL and implements the MySQL client library natively within Frontier, like I did previously with Frontier and SQLite.”

Music has an odd power over me. It can subtly and direct manipulate my emotions. Like right now, Led Zepplin is really talking to me, deep in that emotional groove. Two months ago, I wouldn’t have given it a second listen. Also, Radiohead has floated back to the top.

Weird, eh?

I have been maintaining [my wife’s professional site](http://redbeedesigns.com) for the last few years using TextMate and half a brain. I converted both of our WordPress weblogs to use Subversion a couple of weeks ago. This will allow me to upgrade the sites without disturbing my custom code (what of it that there is) with a simple “svn co” command.

I host with [TextDrive](http://textdrive.com) and they allow shell access and Subversion repositories. I created a simple Subversion endpoint and imported all of Tammy’s web content into one spot. Now I can check out a file or working copy, edit away and commit the changes, all with a roll-back option. Sweet!