Mon 22.11.2004 08.47
Black and white
Sun 21.11.2004 16.20
Sun 21.11.2004 16.21
Light, dusk, snow, trees
Running log
I don’t know if I said this yet, but I really like Lifeblog. Ok, so I am heavily biased. But, I’d like to share one way in which using Lifeblog has been easier for me than any other tool.
Rapidly approaching an advanced age, I decided to take up running. I started gradually back in August and now I am regularly running a few times a week (6 km, woo-hoo!). After every run, I either sit at Lifeblog on the PC or, with Lifeblog 1.5 (coming soon, I promise!), use Lifeblog on the phone, to type in a Note of my run – the Running log.
I label every note with the title ‘Running’. I also change the time anchor to be roughly when I returned from the run. In the note I mention the route, the time, and anything interesting or notable about the run.
I also have added photos and graphics to the log. At home, I run a regular route, so I went to a local online mapping app, downloaded a map of my route, annotated it in Photoshop, and then imported and labeled it in Lifeblog. When I run while traveling, I usually take a picture of a map to show my route.
And here’s the final touch – whenever I want to look back on my running, maybe to see the times or maps, I just enter ‘Running’ into the search box and Voilá! My whole log is there. The key thing is just to label consistently, making it easier to search later on.
One thing I don’t do is show the days that have no items. Then I get to see all those days I didn’t run and end up feeling guilty when there are too many.
My running shoes
Running in San Diego – overlooking La Jolla Shores.
Running in Monaco – looking back over Monte Carlo
One of the runs I did in Monaco. Ran out of road, so I went the other way the next time.
The other run I did in Monaco.
Today, while running, looking over Seilimäki, in Espoo Finland. It was between -5 and -10 celsius. There was fresh snow on the ground.
Funny thing happened today
I’ve been trying to call a friend of mine (on his mobile phone number) in the US and I kept getting his voice mail (with his voice and all). I finally left a message, but still no response. And it was always going to voice mail immediately. I thought either he was always on the phone or it didn’t accept calls that do not send the caller-ID (which can happen with long distance calls).
Finally, I left a message on his home phone and he immediately sent an email for me to call him on his cell phone – it was a different number!
Turns out the number I had was really old. Seems like the company, Sprint, had never turned off his voice mail on the inactive number.
Fun-nee!
Listening to the cusotmer – features requested in July
I read this post a while back and (google) bumped into it again.
Some of Steve’s wishes have been answered with Nokia Lifeblog 1.5 (out soon):
1) …anything i can do to an object in other parts of the Series 60 UI, allow me to do from the Lifeblog interface
Done. From Lifeblog, you can reply or forward messages, and send items such as images via MMS or email or Bluetooth. Just like in the Gallery, but better.
2) Sync/Upload via Bluetooth
Uh, you should be able to do that with all versions of Lifeblog. We support whatever the phone and PC mutually support – cable or Bluetooth synch.
3) ability to add notes for that day
Done. Available in 1.5. Really cool too when you add a bluetooth keyboard to the mix. It was one of those features I would not negotiate on. It is a diary.
4) calendar widget integration…isn’t this really just an extension of a calendar view?
Uh… not in Lifeblog 1.5. Sorry.
5) upload to a server – i understand this isn’t a moblogging tool, but it sure could be a cool one! i’d rather just have a safe place to store everything…hell, can i send it to my iDisk somehow? i wish.
In Lifeblog 1.5 we’ve added Posting to Web via Atom. I don’t think you’ll want everything uploaded from the phone, since each image is at least 300k. That’s a long time ($$ or €€) over GPRS. But, we know you’ll want to post some stuff, so that’s why we have Post to Web (it is LifeBLOG).
I am biased, but Lifeblog is the best mobile blogging tool for me (and it’s great on the PC, too). And it’s not just that – you blog from the multimedia rather than adding multimedia items after writing all the text. It’s about sharing the multimedia, so you can post practically any Lifeblog item to your blog. That’s why I like it.
And, after you post, a little post item is placed in your Timeline. That post item has the link to the post, which you can then open to view, email or, from the phone, SMS to someone. I think that’s cool – live it, blog it, tell everyone about it.
But, hey, Lifeblog is not just about blogging. More ramblings on that another day.
Still no Mac hack
Just for kicks, we tried to run Nokia Lifeblog 1.5 on a Mac in Virtual PC 7.
No luck.
We tried everything.
Oh well.
Happy Birthday, Erik
Found out through the grapevine that Lifeblogger and overall cool guy, Erik Thauvin, is celebrating a birthday.
What makes me smile is the graphic he used to show his Happy Birthday SMSs.
Lifeblog.
People noticing Lifeblog – kinda
Janne, from ButtUgly, found two people from my outreach program, Anina (whom I mentioned before) and a local Finnish chef my boss knows.
It’s cool that news spreads so fast, since both blogs have been up for only a few days. Well, OK, so I know Janne. I even saw him at the movies yesterday. But, he found this stuff out on his own. I didn’t tell him.
I’m not surprised, either: he’s a sharp guy.
Link: ButtUgly: Main_blogentry_151104_1.
Nonetheless, it’s so cool to see that the chef has already been posting about the
small things that make his life special. I look forward to see how his
blog and Lifeblog progress. It’s all about the story!
Lifeblog in new and cool places
Through colleagues at work, I was introduced to a very interesting person – she’s a model, a techie propeller head, a creative soul, and very very funny. She’s doing an art show where she is the art installation – it’s not so odd, since she’s a model SUPERMODEL and is used to being part of the art. The installation is about ‘a new kind of model SUPERMODEL’ who mixes technology, fashion, and art.
I hooked up with her because she finds Lifeblog so cool and we both see some interesting things we can do with it. One of the first and easiest things we did was set up a TypePad blog and Lifeblog 1.5 (not out yet!) on her phone. Go check out the blog over the next few weeks during the show.
LIFEBLOG.anina.net: Lifeblog post. Her first post from Lifeblog from the phone.
Also, check out her own site, too to see the crazy and cool things she’s done.
She’s part of this small group of people I have lent phones and Lifeblog to, to see what kind of cool things they can do. I’ll discuss this ‘outreach’ a bit more later, but already you can see what kinds of things start happening when you enable cool people with cool tools.
Simply incredible
Just got back. Highly recommended.