The measly meanderings of my occupied mind.

I know I’m late to the game to be discussing e-book readers, but after purchasing two different models (both as gifts) I think I’ve come across a few interesting experiences.

The two devices were the Amazon Kindle 2, and the Barnes and Noble Nook

Both devices use a primary reading surface that is the “digital ink” display.  This gray-scale matte finished surface is meant to simulate paper, as well as to cut down on battery consumption. Both devices read remarkably well, even in direct sun/lamplight. Read more

Adobe’s Flash Builder 4 (Formerly Flex Builder 3) developer-centric flash creation platform is now available. Flash Builder Site

Additionally, there are a lot of people saying Adobe will be making an announcement about CS5 on April 12th source.  Now it is looking like the product-launch on that date.

New Flash Plugin can’t be far behind.

I stumbled across this in the process of a project at work.

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/flashTrackingIntro.html

I have yet to finish my testing, but it seems to work rather well.  The only drawback seems to be that every action you log to Google has to be a “fake” URL that is receiving a hit.

However you can setup goals to these virtual URLs and thereby abstract that from your reporting.

As I’m updating my blog with better twitter support, I’m wondering if there is a threshold for over-integrating these tools.

Currently I have Twitter updating to my Facebook status. And there are now hooks between my blog and Twitter. So my Facebook status is likely to be updating a lot more frequently, and much less understadably.

Like the rest of the world, I’ve decided to start paying more attention to my health with the new year. I found this website in the process. http://www.gyminee.com.

It seems to be flexible enough for what I’m trying to do – allowing for both tracking of what I’m eating and activities.  It also is yet another place to do weigh-in progress tracking, etc.

My favorite features are the custom workouts which I can easily mark-off as a whole, or mark progress on individual activities within.

I’m hoping that if this tuff is easily recorded, I will be able to keep an accurate account of my info so that I can see if what I’m doing is sufficient.

If anyone signs up, and wants to link to me – I’m the usual digiscott on there as well.