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Great Wall (Half) Marathon

This looks amazing. I've been to Beijing before, but only for a few days. This would be a great chance to see more of the country. Couldn't do the full marathon, but I could handle the Half. Anyone else in?

10k over the bridge

Just finished the Presidio 10K. Weather couldn't be better.

Back on the Water

I've been working a bit too much lately, so am making an effort to get away from the laptop and go outside... and it doesn't hurt that the weather has been so gorgeous in San Francisco. :)

I decided to get back into an old sport - crew. I used to row in high school, but have not been in a boat for 10 years. Here's a pic of a few of us at the Greenlake Regatta back in '97 (I think...). Heidi Hurn (at the top of the pyramid) went on to row for University of Washington, following in the footsteps of her brother - Hans (bottom, second from left). I am middle row, on the right. I went to UW too.... but wasn't quite tough enough for UW's championship crew team.


After some looking around, I found that Pacific Rowing Club is building up a small masters program and rows near me, on Lake Merced.

My first day was Friday. It was awesome. Practice started at 6:00am, before the sun rose. The people were great and very patient as I fumbled with oars, the boat, just about everything.

What is pathetic is that I could barely lift the boat! I guess running doesn't do much for my arms :\ I am pretty weak right now but hopefully that will change soon.

Anyways, very excited to see how this goes!

Trying out Drafty.com

While in SXSW I ran into friend and one of the original Blogger guys, Jason Shellen. When we first met up at the conference, he was in the middle of launching a new service, drafty.com - a super simple way to post and share to multiple blogging platforms. Sending this post from Drafty now. Pretty cool so far Shellen!

Going to be in Austin? Come to the Blogger Party @ SXSW

iTunes 8 - Trying Hard to Earn a Buck

iTunes 8 is really reacting to the economic climate. Today I tried to purchase a song that I forgot I had already purchased via iTunes a while back. After clicking "buy", iTunes offered me two choices:

1. Upgrade to iTunes Plus (later discovered was $119 to enable)
2. Buy the song again

There is no "close" button. I could not close the dialog... at ALL. I couldn't even "Quit" iTunes via the menu, I had to FORCE QUIT to get out of this state.

What the heck?