After feeling a bit under the weather on Friday of last week, and therefore being unable to complete Week 1 Day 3, I’ve decided to repeat Week 1.

So today was first day of week one again, and I managed to complete it while doing a total of 46 press ups.  (10, 10, 8, 6, and then maxing out with 12). Which is less than a managed last week, but this is because this time I made sure I was doing the press ups properly, rather than doing them to quickly. I felt because I was rushing last week I was favouring my right arm too much. I don’t want to end up with one arm much bigger than the other.

Hopefully, I’ll be doing the next day on Wednesday. I’m not sure yet, because I’ve got to do some travelling with work.

Hello All, It’s been a busy few days but I’ve got a quick post for you that I’ve been wanting to post since Wednesday.

I’ve had a increase in motivation lately. I’ve been getting up early every weekday morning (because I currently need to start work at 8.15 at the latest),  I’ve been drinking a lot less tea (down from a minimum of six cups to a maximum of three a day) and a lot more water. I’m drinking more water mainly because I’m doing a lot more exercises. As well as doing more than thirty minutes Wii Fit everyday, I’m also giving the hundredpushups a try, as I hope you’ve already noticed.  I had planned to complete week one by now, however I wasn’t too well on Friday and therefore wasn’t able to complete day three, so I’m going to start week one again on Monday.

The other thing to have excited me in the last week or so, is blogging. Since I installed WordPress I’ve been typing up lots of posts, most of them are still in draft but I’m enjoying blogging like I haven’t done for a long long time, so look out for more posts coming soon.

As I mentioned in a previous post the Wife got me a wedding Anniversary Gift while we were in Legoland and I did promise to post about it. Well here it is;

It’s rather cool lego kit called ‘LEGO Creator 4953 Fast Flyers‘, that can be built into a Jet Fighter, Hovercraft and a Helicopter. I have to say the wife get certainly knows what presents I will like.

I’m managed to divert the old blog posts (that are went missing because of the blog upgrade, but are still listed by search engines) to the correct locations.

The old blog indexed the posts by date, however WordPress indexes via a unique post id (e.g. 1 for the first post, 2 for the next, etc), so I wrote a little bit of code that searches the old blog database table using the date (provided in URL) from the result it pulls out the post’s title and uses that data to search the WordPress blog database table for the correct post id. Once that is found the PHP Header command is used to 301 redirect the page to correct WordPress page and update the search engine.

Who said I wouldn’t need any PHP/MYSQL skills when I moved to WordPress?

It seems the onehundredpushups thing is quite the internet fad at the moment, I’ve seen  lots of blog and tweats about it.

Today was the secound day of week one, and I managed to complete it while doing a total of 59 pushups.  (12, 12, 10, 10, and then maxing out with 15). It was a lot harder than day one, and I think I was still feeling the effects of that, so I’ll probably be stiff tomorrow.

I’ll be doing the next day on Friday, hopefully I can complete week one without having to repeat it.

That’s forty something days since I first played the game, not forty something days I’ve been training. In hindsight that would have made much more sense as a title.

Anyway I’ve been training everyday without fail (excluding the weekends) on Wii Fit, and I’ve managed to beat some of previous bests, thanks to the motivation I got from the Wii fit thread on the forum where people have been posting their High Scores.

I briefly got my fit age down to 25, I’ve done over 10 hours training and unlocked the Bronze Fit Pig for my efforts,  but most importantly I’ve managed to get a prefect score on Heading (Normal)

I’ve been wanting to increase the number of press ups and sit ups I can do for a while, so when I happened across http://hundredpushups.com/ I thought I would give it a go over the next six weeks.

I did the initial test on Friday, and I managed to do twenty proper press ups without a break.

So today was the first day of week one, and I managed to complete it while doing a total of 49 pushups.  I’ll be doing the next one on Wednesday, and I’ll keep you updated

Just the kind of weather for kite flying, so that just what Conor and I having been trying to do this afternoon. Unfortunately we don’t have a normal kite, we have a ‘stunt’ kite.  Stunt in this case obviously means ‘Smashes into the ground rather than flying despite this being the windiest day ever’. It’s been so windy that after less than an hour of unsuccessful kite flying, the string snapped (but this is a great excuse to throw the kite in the bin and buy a new one).

For another example of how bad the wind has been today here is a quick look at the trees where we were flying our kite.

Hello everyone and welcome to my new blog! I do hope you noticed the big change, if you haven’t or you are new to the blog, I’ve changed both the design and the blogging software.

I’ve been working on the new blog for ages because the old one was a out of date with a design I’ve had for number of years and only the basic of features. So I wanted to have a completely new design, add a load of new features, such as tags and tidy up the database (which was original written in 2002 when I was just starting out with MySQL). However programming this was taking a long time and I was having trouble programming the new features.

So last night I had a moment of inspiration, and I decide I would take the bold step and move to the WordPress blogging platform. I call it a bold step because before this the blog was completely programmed (in PHP and MYSQL) by myself, I originally started the blog to learn PHP and get back into programming again. However, I can now continue to keep active with ObscureInternet.com as I’ve programmed that in a similar fashion to the old blog, however the code was only recently updated and is lot more robust.

The reason I’ve decide to move to the WordPress platform is because it offers all the new features I wanted to add to the old blog, like tags, new archive, and most importantly it offers an easy way of adding and editing posts which is something I was struggling with when using my old handmade blog.

The change over to WordPress has been quite easy. I’ve been able to migrate all the old blog posts (all 469 of them) across using the RSS import feature, all the old comments have been lost (but I had broken the comments system during the re-programming anyway so it’s not a massive loss). It was also quiet easy to get the template looking how I wanted it, as the design was working on had a bit of WordPress theme to it. The biggest downside is that some of the links to popular posts from searching engines with no longer work.

I’ll probably still work on a few more things with the blog in the coming weeks, as I’m not happy with everything yet (especially the new logo).

Getting back into my Wii Fit after falling out of the habit over the holidays. I did all the muscle expercises today (except for the challengers) which are now all unlocked. I’ve managed to get my Wii fit age back down to 29 after it hit the heights of 40 will lack of practice. I also broke a couple of personal bests today got 424 on Football headers (normal), 291 on Hula Hoop (Normal) and I managed to completed the Advanced Table Tilt on only my second go.