Need to go on a diet? Or maybe just get fit? Here is a list of 15 sites to manage your diet, track your exercise, and get fit the Web 2.0 way. Have you heard of all 15? I doubt it. What’s your favorite? I have personally used Weightlosswars.com and find the competition aspect a good method. But, in researching these sites I like DietTV.com.

Anyway no details just a lean and mean list with links. Enjoy!

1. DietTelevision – http://www.diettv.com
2. Traineo http://www.traineo.com
3. SparkPeople – http://sparkpeople.com
4. FatSecret – http://fatsecret.com
5. Fitday – http://fitday.com
6. WeightLossWars – http://www.weightlosswars.com
7. Gyminee – http://www.gyminee.com
8. The Daily Plate – http://www.thedailyplate.com
9. Inpowr – http://inpowr.com
10. RunFatBoy – http://www.runfatboy.net
11. iTrainHarder – http://www.itrainharder.com
12. Skinnyr – http://www.skinnyr.com
13. Gimme20 – http://www.gimme20.com
14. MyFoodDiary – http://www.myfooddiary.com
15. FitSync – http://www.fitsync.com

Old, dead, obsolete computers
Originally uploaded by Extra Ketchup

This is a picture of a HEAP of Desktops. Recently I found out the hard way that Windows XP also has a Desktop HEAP. I recently was upgraded at work to a Dell Optiplex GX620 with Windows XP Pro. I received the nice new machine with 2 gigs of RAM, a fast large hard drive, and a dual core processor. I thought everything would be great. After about 1 month the flakiness began.

With about 10 or more applications open Windows XP began freaking out. When I right clicked on a desktop icon nothing would happen. I would click on the My Computer icon and get nothing. I would click anything that should open another Window and get nothing. It was if I had reached the maximum total number of Windows.

I tried restarting EXPLORER.EXE. Basically EXPLORER.EXE controls your start bar and coordinates many windows functions. This did not seem to help. If I closed out of 1 application it seemed to temporarily fix it. After a Windows reboot it would seem to be better for a short period of time.

After enduring this problem for far too long a session Googling produced THE answer…. continue reading »