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Nutrition and Longevity: a “fast” way to a long life.

Apr

11

2013

I ran across an interesting documentary on PBS recently Eat, Fast and Live Longer with Michael Mosley (watch is soon, free on-line video until 5/10). In a nutshell British journalist Michael Mosley goes about speaking with established researchers at US universities about the benefits of caloric restricted diets and how they can improve overall health and longevity. ...

Palindrome algorithms: What’s fastest reverse vs. compare. 1

Apr

11

2013

Today during a meeting a simple coding question came up as to how to write a palindrome function. A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of symbols or elements, whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction.[1] Examples: mom , level, radar, tenet … There are quite a few programmatic solutions ...

Race report 2013: Cherry Blossom 10K (Branch Brook Park)

Apr

8

2013

The Cherry Blossom 10K in Newark’s Branch brook park, is a popular 10k race held in mid-April (typically during the height of the cherry blossom bloom) and sponsored by the Essex county parks system ,part of the race proceeds go towards the Special Olympics and its a well organized and attended local race. This is my personal favorite running ...

Photos Cherry Blossom Challenge Bike Races

Apr

6

2013

Some photos of the 2013 edition of the Cherry Blossom Challenge Cycling races. Photos are free! Simply Share this link (and link back) or leave some feedback below.. just something I do for fun, please give out this link to friends and other riders who may have attended. I only posted a few select ones here, ...

How far do they run playing different sports?

Apr

3

2013

I recently ran across an interesting post on Gizmodo (How Far Do You Run Playing Different Sports?), which answered the often asked question of how far do athletes run in popular sports , such as baseball, basketball, football etc. I had always heard that soccer players run about 13 miles during a full 90-minute game, ...

Air show Photography 2

Apr

2

2013

One of the fun things I’ve done in recent years, was attend several air shows, not only to enjoy the entertaining displays of aerobatic military and civilian aircraft, but also to test out my photography skills in capturing really fast action.. I love taking action photography especially of sports,cycling, auto and motor racing, air shows, boating etc. There’s ...

Code Sample: PHP Javascript Currency converter + exchange rates caching RSS feed 28

Apr

1

2013

Problem: For a recent project I needed to get the latest exchange rates to allow the sales folks to quickly calculate costs while doing estimates in different currencies. There are many sites online where you can do this, but we wanted to create an in-app widget that could be re-used on various internal pages. The ...

Review: Inventio-HD 720P video Sunglasses camera

Mar

26

2013

I recently picked up a pair of Inventio-HD 720P Video & Audio Recording Sunglasses (referred herein as Sunglasses video cams) you can find them on Amazon for about $130. I’m a big fan of recording video during activities, trips, and especially sport such as running/ cycling etc. Of course I can use my smartphone for most impromptu stuff, or ...

Photography tips for memorable photos 1

Mar

21

2013

Although I have not mentioned it much on this blog, Photography is one of my hobbies, so I’m an amateur at it, but I always like to learn , try new gadgets or apply new techniques. I’m a big fan of sports photography (even when I’m in the sport) or other action photos (like air shows, soccer ...

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