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I need to revisit my previous post about OneNote and the MS Office blog integration…

Apparently, using lists screws things up to holy hell. There were tons of malformed <p> tags, a bunch of whitespace, as well as complete disregard for switching from numeric order lists to alpha ordered lists, when nesting lists. Manual intervention was needed to clean up the gobs of whitespace strewn about my last post on fatblogging.

So… needless to say, I wouldn’t recommend using OneNote/Office’s automatic blog posting feature for anything more than the simplest of posts.

So, in the same vein as Jason Calacanis and other overweight people before me, I am going to open myself to Internet ridicule and glory by posting regular progress about my personal weight loss journey. Yes, I’m going to Fatblog. Truthfully though, I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t’ think the benefit to others and myself wouldn’t outweigh the personal humiliation that comes with declaring to the world that I am indeed fat, and I do indeed require outside help.

Sure, I could get by without doing this… but it’d be slower, and quite frankly, the only thing I care about is losing weight. So, without further ado, here’s the quick state-of-my-union.

1. I was up to 229 lbs at my highest. Last time I weighed myself… I was at 209. I don’t really know where I am right now, as I don’t own a scale.
2. My main attempts to lose weight have been primarily through not eating like an idiot. I got this high by eating whatever I want when I wanted, and partying like a madman earlier in college. Now, I:
   1. Try to select lower fat foods, high fiber, high protien, etc.
   2. Log my daily food intake. This keeps me thinking of what I’m actually eating, and makes it much easier to say, “No.” If I eat it, I have to write it down.
   3. I’m attempting to stay under 2000 calories a day, realistically.
3. I’ve been battling shin-splints while trying to run. Finally, I’m doing better, as I’m running very short distances compared to how I used to run before my weight gain. Adding 60 lbs is really really hard on your feet.
   1. For those who care, I’m at week 3 of the Cool Running Couch to 5k plan.
   2. I use motion control shoes (Brooks Addiction 7)
   3. I’m attempting regularly stretch on off days.
   4. I ice after running.

My friend Nate insisted I post this to my site for safekeeping, as the joys of having a piece of security software share your name need to be kept for the ages. An article on slashdot maintains,

“Seems like the Storm botnet that was behind the last two waves of attacks is also responsible for this new kind of social-engineering based attacks, using spam to try and convince users of the necessity of using Tor for there communications. They “kindly” provide a link to download a trojaned version of Tor. “

Why on earth is accessible spelled with an ‘I’? I can’t fathom why, and I hope some really smart person who understands word etymology reads this. They probably won’t, but at least I’ll feel better by throwing up this Internet Hail Mary.

I would think that it should be accessable, not accessible. Why must things that are *able* to be accessed be described by a word that makes little sense to me? Bleh.