I just read a very informative blog…have I told you how much I LOVE the internet…not that way…but I do love it, I’m a run leader with the Nike lounge in Toronto and I’ve lost literally hundreds of KM over the years due to various reasons, forgetting my chip and or sensor, grabbing the wrong shoes, nano not working, chip or sensor not working, connecting my ipod to the computer at the lounge and it automatically sending my information to someone else’s plus account, dual mystery plus accounts on nike.com lost at least 700KM there alone(if you check my account now I have about 175KM…WTF. My latest loss was a mystery I finished running and heard that beautiful voice tell me my stats and summary but when I connected my nano to upload the latest run to Nike plus, my blog and twiike.com there was nothing there [shrugs shoulders]. Well being a geek the first time this happened I thought to myself that there had to be a way to hack i mean investigate a way to add my runs to my account. The first thing I did was a Google search ‘hacking nike plus’, and the results came as they always do. I picked through my findings and came across this article http://www.walkjogrun.net/blog/index.cfm/2006/9/6/Hacking-the-Sport-Kit Right now in Toronto its 23:14 and I just got back from the gym and a 5KM run and I have to meet with a client tomorrow so I want to get to bed so I will try “earnshavian” lil trick tomorrow when I get home and post my results on my blog www.gregkeane.com. As for the 700KM plus I’ve contacted Nike and they said they are on the case, yeah right, this is the second time I’ve contacted them about this, well maybe this time they’ll do something for me.Anyway here is are the instructions on hacking the plus files.
I wasn’t so much looking for accuracy, just to be able to capture the fact that I ran 5.15 miles. I have my iPod setup to act as a hard disk so I have access to the files on it. I also have my windows explorer setup to show hidden files, which the iPod files are listed as. A quick dig around the files on my Nano while it was connected shows that there are two key folders for tracking your runs. There is a directory for your historical runs: {ipoddrive}:\iPod_Control\Device\Trainer\Workouts\Empeds\{personal pedometer id}\synched\ and another for your latest runs which haven’t been synched yet: {ipoddrive}:\iPod_Control\Device\Trainer\Workouts\Empeds\{personal pedometer id}\latest\ My synched directory contained a run from September 3rd over the same distance and roughly the same time. I copied the file from my iPod to my desktop and then opened it using WordPad to see the contents. It seems that the iPod tracks key events:
• power song
• pace check
• mile split
• km split
• pause workout
• resume workout
• stop workout
and it also keeps a list of distances taken every 10 seconds. Not wanting to fudz anything up, I found two parts of the file which refered to the date and time of the run so I updated it to show today at 6.29am in both places and saved the file. I noticed that the naming convention for the files was consistent so I followed the convention, renaming my new file “2006-09-06 07;39;54.xml”. I copied it onto my iPod under the “latest” folder and ejected my iPod. When I looked at my workout history once disconnected from my computer, sure enough, I now have a 9/6/06 workout in place. The next and scariest step was to connect my Nano again while connected to the internet and visit the site to see what happened to my running history. Sure enough, my run was correctly added to my running history and happiness rained all around.
Use this information for good and not for any evil you may be considering but I am delighted this little hack worked! Of course, in an ideal world, this kind of hack wouldn’t be necessary and the Nike+ site would allow you to add workouts you didn’t do with your sport kit connected with some limitations like 1 per week or something to avoid people cheating themselves.
Thanks again:earnshavian
Have you ever sent that email you really didn’t want to send but the drunk you thought it was a brilliant idea. I know at least one person who has sent out an email ranting on and on about their utter dislike for the boss because the little angry voice told them it was a good idea and it was about time someone stood up to that jerk. Don’t you wish you could just get that micro-second back, a sort of panic-this-is-a-colossal-mistake button, well if you’re a Google follower and thus a user of there fabulous online email app, Gmail, you’re in luck. Google just release a new feature that allows you to stop an already sent email. Its labeled as the “undo” button but I will call it “email regret” button and so it shall be called from this day forth…if I remember. Anyway what it comes down to is that if you send an email via Gmail and for any reason within a few seconds(5 seconds) of sending said email you want to cancel it, all you have to do is click the “email regret” aka “undo” button and pow through the magic that is server and the interweb stuff its recalled. The low down on the what’s happening and how Googles God power is working to save your drunk angry ass is as follows, when you click send Google holds the message for a 5 second delay from the time you hit send and the time that Gmail actually sends the message.
You have to go in Gmail Labs in Settings to activate this new feature. (Scroll down in settings, it is not at the top for some reason).
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Shannon Leigh is a spoken word artist out of Atlanta, GA. She is the National Poetry Slam’s 3rd-place Indies winner and a member of the 2007 Atlanta Art Amok! Team. She is the 3-time champion and 4-time team member of the U21S Slam, 4-time finalist in the Austin Slamoff, has performed in Austin, San Antonio, Conroe, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cambridge, Atlanta, and Cape Town, South Africa, and has shared the stage with the likes of Saul Williams, Jared Paul, Sage Francis, Taalam Acey, Matthew John Conley, Da’Shade Moonbeam, Earth Raiders, Blacklisted and Public Offenders. She has performed with Sage Francis in Las Vegas, NV and featured at DemocracyFest 2005 in Austin, TX at Stubb’s BBQ, performed at the National Poetry Slam and is featured on Season 6 of Def Poetry Jam.
She has a hip-hop album, Sanctuary, available, as well as a webstore for “Fuck Me Human” clothing, made on request of several people who heard her poem of the same name.
Her book FUCK ME HUMAN is now for sale at Lulu.com! It’s more expensive online, because it’s a prettier book with new poems and photographs. If you want the cheap one, you’re just going to have to find her at a venue.
Her personal myspace page is listed further down. Her Livejournal name is shazzathegreat so if you LJ (and what poet doesn’t) friend her, as she loves friends.
I was recently in NYC on vacation doing the tourist thing after my urbanathlon competition. Taking the city sights and sounds in and its many restaurants the one thing I found disconcerting was the inclusion of tip, gratuity, already calculated in the bill. The problem I have with that is that to me it feels like the waiter/waitress put in less effort because they know they are getting a tip regardless of the services they provide, this is not a good impression, these people should put in the work and should the patron such as myself feel they deserving of a tip then a tip will be given. We all go out to be relieved of the burden of cooking, we all see going out as a treat a time for us to put our feet up and have someone wait on us. I think if I knew that when I go to work no matter what I do I’m getting paid I think I may be a little hesitant to do any work, well a bit more than hesitant…I wouldn’t do shit. Far too often wait staff are slow on the ball and I’m able reflect my displeasure of services in the amount I leave as a tip. Gratuity included is sending a wrong message to all servers especially young servers as it says “you do not have to work hard and the rewards will still come”, this is mediocrity gone wild and I won’t stand for it…someone should do something…lol. I’m just tripping, but I think you get my point, I mean know there are people who don’t tip and thats why they have gratuity included, but they should tell you, I’ve almost double tipped when visiting Miami.
I think i may be in love tiwtter CS4…everything is so smooth and intuitive
I met to say Adobe CS4
I have it on my laptop and have used the master collection for several weeks. The masters collection has everything you need to do design work, web print and video, its complete all around. I’ve been using Adobe and Macromedia products for years now, since the purchase of Macromedia I been even happier with the combined apps. I love the integration it allows me to design something and move seamlessly between other adobe apps. The intuitive operation of the programs has really been a time saver. The animated and fluid operation of each app and windows within are a nice touch. Although the cost of Master is insane I think its nice all the same.
i hate twitter spam
I’ve been receiving so much junk lately. I’m just going to sit and see where to go, I’m sure the boys over at twitter are on the job. I’m thinking they need to put in some sort of captcha and that will solve the problem, I know like you I hate captcha but its one of those necessary evils.
Today there was a party at the club to celebrate St Pattys day…you know green beer and shamrocks or something like that. I took out the 5K group, we just took it easy as usual. The turnout was really big, lot of new runners, I guess its thanks to Facebook, I wish I could get a turnout like that for my Saturday morning runs.
If your interested in coming out just drop me a note for the details.
eating a meat pie while listen to poetry via Youtube and icing my ankle as I work. I considering running tonight..i hope my ankle will b ok
I just got back…well at 20:30, the run was fine my ankle held up and now I need to ice it before I go to bed, I think its getting better and I credit the icing and sitting on my ass all day. When will they perfect bionics, I mean God no disrespect but I…wait wtf am I saying man can never improve on Gods work. But when i was a kid I do remember thinking it would be cool to be like Steve Austin the Six million dollar man(yeh I’m that old…shut up). I dreamt of the day when they would replace all my parts with bionic parts..man i was sooo wrong. Well I was pretty close with the Jetson phone…still waiting on that flying car.
Well back to the subject at hand, I have not a clue how I injured my ankle, all I can think of is that I injured it when I was training and doing plyometrics. My plyos workout consist of a lot of jumping and thus subjecting lots of strain on my entire body starting from my ankles. Well the weather is nice and I’m thankful that my ankle is coming around so I can stop using that as an excuse and get out and run.
I’ve been using ‘ingenuine’ for years. I never thought to look it up because I was certain it was a proper word but apparently it isn’t. I was writing something and my spell checker underlines it as incorrect, I rolled my eyes and started to cures the American dictionary that the check uses I clicked it to see what the suggested spelling was and was surprised to see so suggested spelling, hmmm off to Google to check. Went to and checked Dictionary.com. Nope. Went to and checked Merriam-Webster. No go. I checked answer.com. zilch. Wow, ‘ingenuine’ sounds like a word but after check all these reliable sources on the inter-web-tubes-net, I must concede, it is not a word.
Ok, so ‘ingenuine’ is not a word…W.E., I must be just be spelling and saying it incorrectly, clearly there is a word that is close. What is the appropriate antonym to ‘genuine’? Ungenuine? Agenuine? Nongenuine, egenuine? No such version of ‘genuine’ exists. This antonym finder suggests ‘insincere’.
Wow….WOW, I really do hate when sense comes around the corner and smack the shit out of you.
I find some comfort or is it sadness that Google has 10,700 mentions of the word that not a word.