fatwatch

I stumbled across a neat app for those of you both keeping track of your weight, and owning an iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s called fatwatch, available at the AppStore

It’s a simple concept, every day you fire it up and enter your weight, it keeps track. Yay. However, what it also does is allow you to chart your weight over time, and builds an exponentially smoothed average to help you watch your over-all weight trends, without letting an ice cream day hurt you.

It also allows you to set and measure goals, and based on your current and target weight will give you an estimate as to how you need to adjust your intake.

At $9.95 it’s not the cheapest app on the AppStore, but skip a couple fast food lunches and you’ll have covered the $9.95.

Cranky old people vs traffic signs

Frail Pedestrians likely to crossSome people just don’t have enough to do in their lives, I get it.

Some old cranky people are complaining about a sign that they misinterpreted. See, the sign doesn’t mean “old people crossing”, it means “Frail Pedestrians likely to cross”, and the picture is reasonably accurate for that purpose.

Now these signs do tend to show up near old folks’ homes, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that maybe, just maybe, that’s because older folks tend to be more frail?

However, if there are complainers, maybe the solution is to remove the sign near them, then see how long it takes until the exact same folks complain about young whipper snappers zooming by too quickly? Or change the signs out for an guy hunched over with a cane waving his fist at a passing car?

Feedburner

I’m currently experimenting with Feedburner thinking FeedBurner offers a ton of needless complexity, costs me several features I like, and adds virtually nothing of actual value.

Combine that with all the reports of FeedBurner not updating and I’m going to go another direction.

Please report any problems with the feed to me using the Contact Me link.