My wife scoffs at me

and questions why she can remember birthdays better than I can.  The answer is simple.

And when I come up with it, I will let you know.

And this would be a perfect use of Google+... Within Gmail contacts, you can specify dates like birthdays, anniversaries, and so forth. Then Google only needs to provide the capability to mark which dates within your contact for which you'd like to receive a notification and potentially how far in advance you'd like to receive it. In addition, if the contact is within a circle, the marked date would also appear in the stream for that circle.

Actually, another option is if you can tie dates in contacts to your events in your Google calendar. Then the calendar entry can be marked whether it provides you notification or not. Besides improving the social aspect of sharing, Google should focus on making information easier to manage. Duplicating the same information in multiple Google Apps is not desirable.

This year has been an up an down year...

If up means weight, then mainly up. It seems that while I’m traveling, I’ve managed to gain weight. I’m not as into regular exercising as I was last year and I am probably eating too much at the breakfast buffets at the hotel. I’m haven’t quite figured out the correlation between eating too much at the breakfast buffets and gaining weight, but I’ll probably figure it out.

At any rate, based on the previous post that sitting is probably one of the worst things you can do all day from a health perspective, I have been using the counter as my new home office desk so that I stand while working. And it is a lot of work!

Unfortunately I haven’t had any time to exercise ever since coming back from my previous business trip, and I don’t know if it is just my body trying to get back to its earlier weight, but so far, I’m getting much closer to weight I was earlier this year.

I now have a strong admiration for people who have to be on their feet for their jobs.

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